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Dan,
You have to remember 99.99% of shops use every trick in the book to make more money. In addition to the hourly rate, they will start with charging you 100% retail on parts that they get a shop discount on. Then they will charge you a 15% to 35% shop markup on top of that. For example, I had a shop try to charge me $70 apiece for rotors about 12 years ago. When I told them I would supply the rotors, since I could get them for $45 to $55 apiece everywhere, they agreed to charge me $55 each for them. I know they weren't happy about it.
I agree people have to eat & pay rent, etc. and I don't begrudge them that, but when they charge people the max exorbitant price they can because their customers are ignorant of the going price, I don't like that at all.
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Marv Evans
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