Edward
Vine Grove,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, June 08, 2007
Your complaint has no merit. With you being a shop owner, you also do mark ups on the parts that you install on your customers cars. Everyone marks up their products. From the start at the manufacturing plant, each business that handles the product, marks up the cost as it gets passed along. The only one that does not do a mark up is the end user. Maybe your biggest anger is due to the fact that you could not do a higher mark up because it was already extremely expensive. Maybe you could have gotten it at a lower cost somewhere else. You will know better next time. Shop around. There is no doubt that you have had customers point out to you that the could have gotten the part themselves for 30-40% less than what your charged them for the part, not counting labor. All shops mark up prices. It is capitalism.