CW $59 install (read the fine print)
Nothing (!) is installed for $59. Read the fine print (we're talking very fine here) and it says they will also add a "shop supplies" fee that is 10% of the original labor amount (not the $59) to the ...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:
Is Maaco's "paint only" language in its famous cheapo paint job ad also deceptive? It means what it says, ya know- they won't even wipe the dust off yer car before spraying unless you pay them "extra" to do so.
I remember Maaco advertising $29.95 in the 1950s. People would come into my Dad's shop trying to negotiate a paint job for $50-100 because Maaco would do it for $30. We couldn't buy the paint for $50 and at $5 an hour shop rate, could not do the job right with only $100 worth of labor. So the answer was: "take it to Maaco."
We did clean up a few $30 paint jobs afterwards. In the mid 1950s that cost $300 to $500 labor, usually more than it would have taken to do the job right from the start.
In 1965 my brother and I bought a rusted out black 55 Olds for $50, to use at Michigan State. We put about 200 hours labor into that car over the summer patching and painting it an appropriate green and white. It looked good until we both finished school, then it went to a third brother who drove it three more years until he got drafted.
