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Old 01-20-2013, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Zacharias View Post
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If the shop isn't making anything on parts, at least in my neck of the woods, they will charge extra for labour. That is now a fact of life.
Where I live it is getting harder and harder to get jobs done on a per hour rate - they have learnt to do a per job rate which when you backwards calculate it it seems like they are lawyers not tradesmen!
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