Adventure in Painting

[Mark McDonald <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ray,

Thanks for your input.  I really don't think the guy who quoted that price was
trying to scare me off; I think that's his honest approach to his job.  I've
looked at their website and I can see now that they are going after a different
kind of customer than me-- i.e., rich.

But I gotta ask you, why is the Boy a Time Bomb??

Mark

The Boy's a Time Bomb wrote:

> > His reasoning was, to "do it right once is better than doing it twice
> > wrong."  While I agree with this statement by itself, I don't think it
> > explains his prices, and I find his prices astonishing.  I am not
> > looking for a car to take to Pebble Beach.  I'm looking for a good
> > quality paint job for a car that I intend to drive occasionally and
> > carefully, and show every once in awhile.  But I'm not really into
> > competition, I just enjoy old cars & going to events.
>
> That guy sounds like he's deliberately overbidding the price so the customer
> will find someplace else to go.  Shops sometimes do this when they're
> overloaded on work, but sometimes they do this because they're $!#holes.
>