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[Alexander van Gerbig]

    Well now that I am an official monkey lad I now understand why mechanics
hate people bringing in their own parts.  I know lots of shops that charge
almost twice the labor rate to install parts other people have brought in.
I work in a small shop and we charge a very small amount above what we get
parts for, sometimes our prices are still under what people get their parts
for on the net.  I was very surprised at how cheaply my boss can get good
OEM parts, and within a day or less, even the really obscure parts.

    Now think about how much it costs to run a shop, it's crazy.  Plus there
is a lot of money being put out before it ever comes in, especially on the
restoring jobs like we have been doing.  One fellow owes us $20k in parts!
I now sympathize with shop owners, some go a little overboard on parts
markups, but I doubt the majority does, especially in the shops where most
of us go or should go, specialty shops.  A shop couldn't survive if every
part they laid money out for just got paid back to cost, how about the cost
of running that shop, paying the secretary, the lads, the electrical, and
all those things.  The labor rate only can't run a business and support the
owner, they have to have food for their kids too.

Alexander van Gerbig -- '88 80t (Gone, but never forgotten)

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