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Originally Posted by HobieMarty

I don't have a problem with people wanting to make a buck but geez the price they quoted me was more than what the vehicle is worth so, it seems like a shop playing a game of, quote the customer a price more than the value of the vehicle and if they don't bite, then offer to buy the vehicle from them and see if they bite.

At the same time, I think it's entirely possible that for an older vehicle the cost of the vehicle and the fair cost of a repair may be out of whack.

If you've got a vehicle like a Lexus that's in really good shape, but is older, I can see the bluebook value being low. Then you throw in something like a bad motor, where you have to get the motor (and make some markup on the motor) and then perform a motor swap which is probably a ton of hours in the books, so that the value of a motor replacement is probably higher than the value of the vehicle. So they may not have been padding things, it may have just been how it worked out. Or maybe it should have been a $2500 or $3000 job, and they bumped it up.