[Musclerodz]

I get this as well, but I get alot more of it with our shop work. Local guys know my work, like what I do, but don't like the up front "this is what it is going to cost" price. What usually happens is someone else will lowball me by quite a bit, and before the car gets out of their shop, they have paid as much or more than my original quote for an inferior job. I know of at least 6 cars this happened with last year.

I have on more than one occasion referred customers to other vendors if they carried something I didn't. I even buy from other board members if it is a product I don't carry. I will openly admit I have bought several parts from Frank at Prodigy, Marcus at SC&C, and a few others. Not only are they competitors, I also consider them friends. If we don't take care of each other, no one else will.