Machine shop 440 Mopar questions?

This is a tick of a pickle and what happened to customers always being right? LOL..
First $600 for a block with main caps and I'm sure it was a complete engine seems a little expensive at least here where I live... Not to say there isn't people asking that and more but what people will pay for one...
In 2013 I had a small block 360 prepped for a stroker and it was about $450. This last year the same shop prepped basically the same block and it was $700.. and here's the big one and something I always have them do it's for the extra $500 they dumped my stroker kid in there... I could have put it all in there no big deal but for the extra $500 it's done they've done all the measurements and made everything right.. and yes that was a torque plated..
And the finest finishes to use cemetic gaskets if I so choose. ..
So $1,200 got everything done on a small block..
I've had these kind of miscommunications in the past.. on the first motor I said I do not need the bottoms of the block notched because they're I beam rods... It was discussed and sure enough they notched the bottom of the block and I said something and I agreed with them to split the cost it wasn't that much. Mostly to keep everything nice and icy...
Here's the way I personally would approach your situation... Of course eye to eye and not when there's a line of customers or anything like that but when you have someone on one time... Let him know you understand that he has hundreds and hundreds of different engines that he's doing and that's why it takes so dang long for them to get done. Not that he's not working as fast and is efficient as they possibly can but he has quite a lot on his plate.. remind him that you only have one engine on your plate only one minded thing so your attention to everything that's going on with it is singular focused... With both of these thoughts in mind you probably may not remember that we talked three times about a torque plate. But on the other hand that's all I have to think about.. for all intent and purposes you can keep that crank because I have no intention of using it as I discussed with you I'm buying a stroker kit... I hope you can now see my concerns of paying absolute top dollar for what wasn't discussed...
At this point I would be considering cutting my losses completely and telling him to keep it all... You're going to be $1,800 here very quickly into something you don't even want... Maybe calling around to some of these other recommended places and seeing how much they would charge to get the job done?.. if it comes up $800 and you can find another block for 4 to $600 which still is a bit expensive you're still 12 to $1,400 into what you really wanted in the first place... And I would highly recommend just giving them the stroker kit and having a short block...
In the end it's a rough one and it wasn't you that made it rough...