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Rob62:
A very sad story indeed, i really do feel for bobv, but this dealer/restorer whatever he is, has obviously pulled a bit of a nasty one here and I don’t think many would disagree with that. He most certainly deserves to be identified and challenged over this incident rather than being allowed to get away scott-free without the entire classic motorcycle community being made aware of his actions. Bobv may well not get his hard-earned money back but he can certainly limit this guys chances of repeating this scam on some other unsuspecting victim.. Name and shame, its definitely the right thing to do.... maybe bobv should try a bit of sharp practice and give this guy a taste of his own medicine.... either refund a reasonable amount money or face being exposed to the entire community, forums and facebook.... I do hate to see people being ripped off and arseholes getting away with this type of nasty behaviour....

Green1:

--- Quote from: rozabikes on October 16, 2019, 07:28:50 PM ---
You are obviously an honourable chap Bob and don't deserve such treatment.

Athough the curtains we sell are in no way related to the bike industry, the principles you operate to should be the same in any business. Lots of people say to us - "I don't care about the price, I want it,  just do it". We still  always insist on giving  a firm cost. I personally often feel uncomfortable  when giving people a cost as they may understandably have no Idea of potenial price and I would not want to shock them. Just shows why you should do it.  Simply would not feel morally comfortable sticking an end cost on a job without prior agreement to an accurate estimate.



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I don't know how you get any work dealing with curtains I have the same issue when pricing wallpapers. A roll on its own sounds cheap but when I say you need so many rolls most people run a mile.
I had one recently that was £58+VAT per meter not roll after I worked out the price even I fell over.

Trigger:
There is no rip off here. The restorer was asked to do a job, which he did. He was not asked to give a price on the job.

Look at the process of doing these complicated part and most fabricators I know charge £60 to £70 per hour.

First he would of had them reversed chromed. Then chemically de rusted, before cutting and rotten metal out. He would of then had to bend new parts of metal and stitch them in, braze the seams and grind down flat and blend to the original metal. Then once correct, polish it up to a high grade finish before sending it is be copper plated and chromed. Not a 5 minute job and a lot of outside work done by third parties.

I don't know why you did not ask of the forum, if anyone has any. I must have a couple of sets kicking about.
 

Rob62:
It wasn’t you was it....? Lol 😆

taysidedragon:
The price is shocking to most of us, but Trigger is right about the amount of work involved. If this specialist is used to dealing with million pound cars or rare bikes like Brough Superiors then he probably has customers paying those sort of bills for rare, impossible to replace parts all the time. Not me though! 😕
 

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