Posted by rankrank1 on March 03, 2013 at 08:43:41 from (198.228.228.148):
In Reply to: major overhaul cost posted by T.E.C. on March 02, 2013 at 17:44:35:
Sounds very reasonable to me although I would never invest that in any David Brown myself (Regardless that was the customers choice to do it and you even tried to talk him out of it).
My MIL payed over $4400 to have her 1210 David Brown 4 cylinder majored back in 1994. The 1210 is also a 4 cylinder and about 63 hp. Actually it is quite similar to a 1410 minus the turbo charger so there was not even a brand new turbocharger factored in on it although there was a brand new crankshaft installed. (4 cylinder DB's are prone to breaking crankshafts). I do not think the pump was touched either. Regardless I am going back over 20 years and you did lots of other extra stuff too that they did not.
Tell the crybaby to quit crying. Your pricing is much more than fair. Actually it is about 20 years behind the times. Frankly, nothing worse than dealing with cheapskates.
Lastly, Do not let jerks like this customer ruin your dream of having your own shop. If its what you enjoy doing and you do good work then you will end up with plenty of work in the long run. If you already have more work than you can handle then simply weed out customers like this one in the future.
As a side note: I hate to see all the old tractors and implements being scrapped but I do not necessarily blame a good portion of the scrappers (dope heads and theives are a different story). When the old cheapskate buyers will not even pay close to scrap prices its kinda hard to blame those sellers that opt to scrap em instead.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 08:49:12 03/03/13 2 times.
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