I'm not sure where this post would go best but I'll give it a try here
Today I went to a LBS (and this is one I'm increasingly losing faith in
) anyhow I noticed a sign on the side of the wall, saying
per hour labor rate:
$50 standard work
$75 if you watch
$100 if you do the work
$150 if you try first and get it wrong
and I thought to myself, it seems a bit pricey to be $50 for a bike mech, but maybe thats a normal rate (I rarely have them do work as I do it mostly by myself) but the prices at 75 and up seem well kinda messed up to me, I can kinda understand why they would charge more if you were going to ask them to explain stuff to you, but mind you this is a small LBS, shouldn't they let you watch for free? maybe I'm dreaming about a LBS who doesn't worry about rent and other costs of running a shop but I figured they would at least let you watch for free.
oh well
so is this an unusual price rate or am I just not informed?