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oooriole09 on August 20th, 2020 at 11:07 UTC »

I’d understand their sentiment better if there was more transparency in costs and quality of work. Mechanics are notoriously variant when it comes to some jobs. I had an AC compressor go bad in my wife’s car, called around to 5-6 different places and the cost varied by over 100% depending on the place.

CitationDependent on August 20th, 2020 at 12:59 UTC »

Install a heat pump in Canada.

They quote $7500.

Exact same heat pump online for $2400.

Call 6 technicians, 5 refuse to install, 1 agrees for $750.

Takes him less than 4 hours. Around $200 per hour.

So, other 5 guys wanted $5000 for 4 hours work. That's 8 times the salary of an ER doctor.

Fermatious on August 20th, 2020 at 13:28 UTC »

I worked at a parts store and we would price match any local place. People would come in and ask for a price on a part and then say, “well I can get it for...” and then quote some absurdly low price at another store. So I would look at them and say something like, “wow that’s a really great deal, I would just get it from them then” knowing we were typically cheaper or the same. They would follow it up with, “well I’m already here, I’ll just take it”.

It was a common thing and I never understood it. Like if they would have said like 5 bucks cheaper on a 40 dollar part I wouldn’t have hesitated, but instead they would be like “that’s 16.99 at the place down the street and has the same warranty”