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| - It's too bad that I can only give them a 5! After doing a fair amount of research, we selected three body shops to interview.
The reality is that most body shops have similar costs of doing business, therefore all estimates should be similar.
All we wanted to know is who we wanted to do business with. After meeting with all 3, it was obvious who we were going to do business with. ..Select Auto Body. It turned out it was a complete no brainer.
Select wanted our business, but didn't NEED it. Having been in sales all my life, that makes a real difference to me.
You may not realize it, but when you sign an estimate, it really is a blank check. The reason for this is that all estimates have a phrase which says in effect that if further damage is found after starting the job, there likely will be further costs. In other words, you are almost signing away your (financial) life!! This is both realistic and fair so long as the body shop is fair.
In our case the final bill was about 25% LESS than the estimate. While this likely is unusual, it did happen in our case.
Not a BTW, the job they did was phenomenal. They took a car that the insurance company, and turned it into a GEM!!
Forget where you live. These guys are the best.
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