What the hell is going on with shops?
I also love the argument about paying for all the cost of doing business stuff. What gets me there is that is all charged to the customer and then written off come tax time. Since I as the customer was the one paying for that stuff as pointed out above, shouldn't I get the tax writeoff? I don't know what the book says overall, just from the few things I have ever brought in or had done under warranty. The hours listed were always silly high for somebody actively engaged in the job with all the proper tools. I'd love to hear some specific times of what the book says for common things people here have done themselves so we could judge for ourselves your argument you get screwed with those times.
I do complain about the doctor rates as well. Last time in I timed the actual doctor time and then compared to the billed rates and shamed them on social media. Lots of people responded with "why do you care you have good insurance?" Exactly one reason our healthcare is getting so expensive. That, over use, and lawyers.
What... write offs.... you can't write off everything, what do you think i got back this year ?
So many people have their hand in business owners pockets it isn't even funny, the fed, the state, local, town, witholding tax, bs licenses and bs permits... Where is my salary for collecting sales tax ?? wtf the govt wants sales tax and i want $20 an hour for doing there job, or they can stand there and collect there tax from you when you walk out..
If i really added all the costs in, prices would change drastically.... DRASTICALLY... My prices on many MANY things would be much much higher...
For example, taxes went up, gas went up since 1.80g , electric has gone way up, parts went up, supplies went up, delivery prices went up yet i still charge the same prices for many common alterations on shafts and t-cases and diffs for the past 10 years or actually longer on many many things, my diff builds and rebuilds are the same labor for the last 10 years or more...
Oil went up, grease went up, parts went up, the cost of living has went up BIG TIME!! property tax went up, rent went up and then the govt comes up with new bs and new requirements all unknown by you, the consumer, but EVERY consumer thinks business owners are all rich...
My equipment costs huge money, i have 2 machines just those 2 all by themselves total more than $150,000..... have you any idea what it takes to make that money back ? and thats just 2 machines, lathes, bridgeports, welders, tooling, hand tools, electric tools... all costs, when i have a new employee wrecking $90 a piece bits on a job that costs $75 and they wreck 6 of them, would you want the phone call that your car is now $525 ? Somehow i don't think you want the call when tooling breaks adding to what it cost to repair your parts or vehicle...
OR you buy a new car and the manufacture changes the design just to be assholes, like say you have a vibe in your shaft and now that shaft needs new fixtures to mimic the car, you want to pay the $75 or the $950 for the 2 fixtures ? that there is no guarantee will be used 15 more times to compensate the cost before it becomes a tool making money...
I have fixtures that cost $1300 each and have been used 4 times in 7 years, they are a huge loss that i never get back, and you can only claim losses so many times.
write offs, please write offs are based on percentages of taxes, not overall cost, and then lets remember the insurance to cover the nearly 2 million dollars of equipment every month, and the ins for the jerk off that might want to sue, the ins for the truck to deliver and p/u just to make the customer happy, that they think is must for them, it's a courtesy that isn't figured into ANY job, so now we have another burden ins, driver, truck cost, maintenance, oil, gas
Yeah write offs are so awesome, they don't cover the amount of gas used for the shop truck in 2 weeks...
There is so much the consumer has no idea about, they think it's just get this and that and make money...
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