Re: I'm desperate...
An ad hominem attack. You clearly don't have a counter argument.
Well, let's see:
Anyway I'm not going to say any more on the matter as I don't want to see this thread hijacked by a discussion on prices.
I was going to let it go but you went WAY to freakin' far man so yeah, I CAN and now am GOING to answer you, point to point in fact.
stigmata_97 - I am sorry for hi-jacking your thread man but I think you'll agree that the guy is so PAST the line that, saying that he crossed it would be an euphemism.
No, but could you? That's the point. I have the skill, experience and diagnostic tools to do it and have taken the time to learn the correct procedures, which makes my time and effort more valuable than someone who hasn't.
Oh really? Ok man, I may not have read a gazillion books and how tos but I think ANYONE with half a brain can read from the manufacturer's page/diagram/whatever which is the north and south pole and which is the hot and ground or, with a little trial and error, be able to tell for himself. Sure, he may not have your very high tech "instruments" and may not do it as fast but I think even like that unless he's a total buffoon he'd be able to make due...
OK, I'm not the repairer in question and I have no idea whether he would be doing this either but you can't assume and call him a thief or a rip off merchant just because you don't like his price; you have no way of knowing what he offers for that price.
If he knows what he's doing and actually does it then he charges 85$ for a 5 minutes (less?) job. If he doesn't know what he's doing then clearly not only he's overcharging but also is in the wrong line of work.
Pure and simple.
Well that's peanuts and all i can say is you are lucky to have someone who will undersell himself. In any case you live in Greece! No offense but I expect things to be cheap in Greece. I used to work for a giftware company and they used to get a lot of their range made in a factory in Corfu at a fraction of the price we could make it here.
If he was in Minnesota though, i think he'd have to put his prices up. He's have heating bills to worry about...
Ok, now it's MY turn to tell you than you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Official European reports place us among THE most expensive countries in Europe (second to Portugal and a couple of others), way ahead of the UK, and even if they didn't say it, trust me when I say that we know that fully well.
The guy is simply an honest man. He knows how long sth will take him to do it and how hard it is and charges accordingly - which is why he's overbooked and has a
2 month waiting list. It is the honest one that gets all the work, not the cocky one.
No you are wrong; it's just market forces. If the guy is the only game in town then he is likely to be busy. If he can do $85 worth of work in the time it takes him to fit a pickup then that's the price he has to charge. There's no obligation for him to subsidise his customers' thrift. The potential buyer has the option to refuse the offer and go elsewhere or do the job himself. to call it larceny and thievery is ridiculous (and libellous, and perhaps the moderators should be thinking about removing such posts) especially since the repairer in question has had a large amount of vitriol directed at him without any right of reply.
See how you contradict yourself here?
You admit that the only reason he charges that much is because he knows he's flying solo and KNOWS that unless people are in the mood for an interstate roadtrip they'll HAVE to go to him.
There is NO such thing as an 85$ worth of pickup changing work.
As for the busy part, read above answer.
As a side note, if you're going to use a "difficult" word first make sure it's not one of the million words English "borrowed" from Greek (which it is) and secondly, at the very least spell it correctly (it's libelous, one L), you're supposed to be the English native between us.
But nice touch trying to force the moderators hand.
