Originally Posted by TeLLy
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I give you a price, you pay it, it's that simple - I don't jack up the cost just cause I scraped myself or took an extra hour. I'm not a big shop that can charge you for extra time (but if I have to buy new parts for the job you're payin for em, ha ha). If I was doing this for the money, I would have given up when we were trying to feed the wire through the grommet, and you would have paid me half my quote even though I didn't finish. But I really just wanted to get the job done, mainly cause I wanted to see your car pimped out, and know I did that. You wouldn't have paid a cent until the completion. The money I charge isn't a profit thing, believe me. I charge a little bit because I want to make sure you're committed to getting this done and getting it done right. If I paid shops full labour costs to do the mods I have on my car (and some of my mods can't be done at ANY shop in the T-dizzle trust me), then I would be even MORE broke than I am now. Thus I know you guys can't afford to blow $200 on labour to install a pair of fog lights, though some places would be happy to hit you with that. You bought a freakin Civic, I'm sure some of you guys sometimes worry about making the next payment. What good is trickin out your car if you can't afford the gas to show it off? Just do me a favour and when someone asks "Wow, what did you have done to that car?", you can help my cause and say....