Alignment question

I rebuilt my front end. It was perfect when I was done. I took it to a shop to get it aligned. The counter guy told me it was too far out of spec to align. I said okay, but he tried to charge me a rack fee. After much arguing with him and his "tech" it was confirmed that his computer couldn't tell his "tech" how many shims to add and subtract. (go figure)
I took it somewhere else and the alignment was done without issue.
I just went thru this last week. the guy does mostly front end work on anything. 4 wheel drives, corvettes, hot rods etc. works for himself, and has a backlog of 2-4 weeks usually. he worked on my magnum force front end, for 4 solid hrs. to get it right. asked him what he thot about it, and to be truthful, he said it looked ok to him and didn`t see any problems w/ it.