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Sounds about right. Nobody cares anymore. I see it here in my profession as well.
The case is new, the internals are new etc all new, just who and where sourced are the electronics? WHo knows. It has an aggressive regulator and puts too much load on at startup.
my old "number" was 223283
Hey so the other way of doing it in another sort of company in the bid process is to bid low like that BUT you make up for it by padding the bill with more hours and or parts that weren't needed to justify the higher rate. So you replace parts that are good. Now to be careful though because they can send a vehicle or item to a shop that has nothing wrong to see if you are cheating them. But depending on the service you provide in the business there are always a way to get it back in the long run.
i think if you deliberetly fired people here and go elsewhere to do just that, your company should get directed tarrifs imposed directly on it that amount to equal or greater the value what they just cheated out by leaving. Has to be calculated on a expected rate, which happily say they can estimate that because they were about to flood the market with something cheaper and that means those increased sales will do wonders to help the rest of us here at home work around their treachery
That's not the way I run shops. I will not change parts that are not needed, nor will I allow my guys to. When we called to get approval for work they'd labor check as well before authorization would be given, if we wanted to charge more labor for a job we needed to have a reason, and honestly their local office was pretty good working with us on that stuff, but if we did it on every job it would have been a no go. Plus to me the idea of changing parts that are not needed and bumping labor times up when there isn't extra labor involved is unethical and one of the reasons mechanics get a bad rap. I will not be part of that.
I left my old job at the farm and barn for that reason. Was being told to write work orders for parts I know were not needed. every brake job needed calipers? Even 30k heavy braking new cars? not buying it.
I never worked in shops but did work in the medical supply field and folks do not know the half of it when it comes to OUR healthcare system. One sees enough of that sort of thing and then watch the news and you get disheartened as a mild way of putting it.
I know different industries are different, and maybe I should apologize for being so jumpy about that. In this area at least there are quite a few shops with the "lie, cheat and steal" from the customer reputation. I've worked very hard to make sure my name and the shop I work for are not part of that. For me I'd rather sink or go broke with a good honest reputation and be able to sleep at night, than to excel though dishonest business practices.
Book time can be an absolute joke and there should seriously be a lot of transparency in what "book" the time is from. Because I was shown book time On my computer what each and every job would take and it would go into work orders and of course that is how it would calculate the labor cost, but it was almost never an accurate or realistic number.
I think a lot of the problem is the squeeze by automakers such as general motors on dealers, who then those dealers were generally the less moral or caring of things as they should be, who when they saw money squeezed, squeezed the largest business expenditure all businesses have.
