I agree with Mark Mcdonald's previous assessment, there's just something
here that bugs me. 10 dollars a day storage? The car is in the shop being
worked on, it's not being stored. I don't remember a shop I was ever in
charging a customer for storage on a car we were working on. Now if the car
had been brought in early, or was stored for awhile due to waiting on the
insurance company or stored for whatever reason, I could see maybe charging
a fee. But charging storage when they're already charging the customer for
working on the car, doesn't seem right to me. Over 5K$ is a serious chunk of
change, before you spend that much, check out some other paint shops in the
area.
The fellow may be very good, but that storage fee has me wondering, does he
have the bill padded anywhere else? Looks like a judgement call, and if
you've seen his work and it's really that nice, it may be worth the
investment. But I'd check around some more, before I committed to the job.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Pacheco" <kevin50187@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:14 AM
Subject: IML: Body/Paint free estimates
> got some free estimates today for some body work and paint job. People
> recomended to me b&w body shop. I saw some of his work, and its very
good.
> He said there was 17 "things" to be done. he needs to work on panel,
> hood. fender front left, fender front right, door shell front left. door
> shell right. door shell rear both left and right. panel roof. penel
quarter
> left. panel quarter tight. lid, rear deck. and other things like taking
> time to mask the car, taking off letters and puting them back taking off
> trim etc. Which is 108 hours of labor, plus 10 dollars a day storage, is
> 230 dollars for 29 regular 8 hour days. labor comes out to 4,100.20!!!!
It
> all comes out to 2489.50 for the paint, and 2654.80 for the body work.
> Grand total of 5,374.30 All I have to say is WOW. Is this a reasonable
> price? much work is needed to be done on this car.
> Kevin Pacheco
> currently looking for 3 more jobs to get enough money to paint his car...
> 71 Imperial Lebaron
>
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