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Originally Posted by GL Troll
Right you are. There I go shooting from the hip again. However, I think most people hire someone simply because they don’t want to go to the effort.
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Oh heck yea, especially if they know their stuff. Honestly though, that is such a small fraction of people that I deal with, they usually think they have an idea of what to do - but they always explain to me a bunch of techniques that are quite harmful. It's quite comical, but it's completely understandable. I really see it as just that, they hired me, even if they know their stuff - they want to learn.
It's the people that have no interest in how you achieved the results that bother me, because you know that they won't notice the difference you have made nearly as easily as the people that are into it.
With that said though, it's easy to pick those people out. I stay away from clients like that. I am much more specialized in not only my procedures & products, but my choice in clients as well. Many people don't require the specialized service, even though they might not know the difference to begin with. It would definitely be a disservice to not turn some people down, for their good as well as my own.
Overall, it confuses people, considering I'm very inexpensive. I can remain very competitive, even with the local "migrant worker" shops that do shoddy work. I really should raise my prices to distinguish my service, but I'm more of a hobbyist - and it's not my main occupation. I just like what I do, but sometimes it's difficult to wrestle the amount of incoming customers with college, work, etc... I only do 1 car a week, and I usually skip 1 week a month.
Gotta make time for paintball and my own car...