Will I be sorry?

You get what you pay for, but I have a personal experience for this one.

I took 2 cars to Earl Scheib. I paid $800 to get my 2004 Cr-v painted Viper Gt-S blue, and I had a coupon for them and everything. The manager was super nice, gave me all the warranty information. He scraped off all the vinyl from the previous owner, and every sticker on it, and he said they'd also do the door jambs for free, since I told him I didn't have enough money to paint them, and he said it would look silly to have red door jambs on a blue car - so he went ahead with it. They spent 5 days on my car, and painted it really nice. I picked it up on the 5th day and it was BEAUTIFUL! No orange peel, no overspray anywhere, and for the next two years i drove it after that I still never saw any overspray and it never peeled or faded.

He gave me info on how to take care of the paint, etc... and gave me a touch up pen he made with the color that was pretty close in case it ever got a rock chip.

Fast forward about 8 months, I take my wife's 2000 Volkswagon Beetle there that was a (used to be) apple green that was faded and peeling bad. I took it there because they did such a good job last time and I wanted to do something nice for her birthday.

Lo and behold the manager is no longer there. He got let go - new manager didn't say why. I had hoped the deal would be the same - no the car cost $950 to paint, wasn't even as big as my Cr-v, and they were just doing a midnight blue which looked like a stock VW color.

I got a call the next day and they said they were done - WOAH - ok, I went to pick it up, it looked ok, then I realized they did not paint behind the mirrors so they were still green behind, left a bunch of tape on the car, it was out drying in the sun, orange peel everywhere, overspray everywhere and you could see where the old paint had peeled beneath - I don't think they even bothered to sand the car... but it looked ok from 20 feet away so they figured they were done with it.

I'd say based on that it's hit or miss. The previous manager seemed to want to make stuff look nice, and maybe got fired for a low turnaround due to the amount of time spent on one car. I don't know.

Maybe you should take it to maaco, pay for the paint, drop the car off, then head into the paint shop with a crisp - fresh from the ATM $100 bill. Wave it in the air and say "who do I give this to to make sure that car gets painted perfectly?"