When I had my shop, a steady customer of mine liked to haggle on price. I did the upper end on the 300 V-8 in his '64 Buick Skylark. The bill came to $832.15. The guy was an engineer for Honeywell and still had 15 cents of the first dollar he ever made. His wife was worse than he was. She wrote me a check for $800 and told me "that's more than enough." Fine, it was late and I was ready for supper. They took their car and left. In due course, they had another problem and brought the car in again. I performed the repair and they came to get their car. The bill this time was a little over $85, they wrote a check for the amount in full and I handed them the keys. The man went out to his car, started cranking the engine, but nothing happened. He pumped the gas, tried two or three more times, no start. I was sitting in my office watching him. He walked to the office and reported the no start. I opened the desk drawer and withdrew the coil wire for his car. I held it up and asked him if he remembered the $32.15 his wife had beat me out of last time they were in. I told him that for $32.15, I could make his car start right up. He threw $40 in cash on my desk and walked toward his car. I installed the coil wire, the car started right up, he drove off and we were both happy. I was the only shop in 200 miles that would even take a car in with a distributor and carburetor on it. I charged a fair price and provided a competent service as reasonably as I could.
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