Most Absurd Price Ever Quoted

[Maynard Rupp]

$125 for ONE spark plug wire, for a car I no longer own. Guess why....

Jim, you gotta stop buying those unusual foreign cars. Just go buy a great Chrysler mini-van like I did. You will love the car, parts are cheap and available, and I can honestly say that it is the best built car I have ever owned, and I am very fussy. Maybe you could help keep Detroit and the rest of the working country afloat also.

[chris piazza]

How about a little over $400 for a set (4) 32v glow plugs for the Onan, Didn'T buy them. Also quoted $125 for the clear plastic cover for one side of the bridge engine instruments. $146 for one Qt of awlgrip matched to boat for minor touch-ups.........

Chris
Superior Nights 53C

[Finalee]

How about faxing to an 800 number at $1 per page.

[jim rosenthal]

Oh, I don't have it anymore. You are exactly right. I sold it and replaced it with a Cobra with a Ford engine in it. For what I used to pay for a plug wire, I could buy a whole water pump now. For what they wanted for a tuneup (which was done by the subsequent owner, not me) I could have bought TWO engines plus a transmission. Did I mention the new one is faster?

You DID say mature Hatteras; my apologies. I do vividly remember paying $400 for a little freshwater circulating pump for the Onan generator set that used to be in Blue Note. And that was a discounted price, as I recall...I made up my mind to try very hard not to own anything made by Onan in the future, and so far, I'm sticking to my guns.

[Sparky1]

Sorry Sparky, no amount of sarcasm will change my mind on the $89.95 sticker. Like most, I look at value more than price. These stickers cost less than a dollar to replicate, after a die charge of maybe $50 dollars. And yes, someone had to scan the original into the computer. Their price for one sticker covers the entire investment. I just bought some plastic labels for my mature Hatteras for Sam's for $3 to $5 each that cost more to make than a vinyl sticker and have a greater set up charge, if it was required. L B Harvey tried to rip me off, plain and simple. Need I mention where I suggest they put their stickers?

Pete

Just picking at you Pete, but I can't imagine very many people would be in the market to buy a sticker for a spotlight. Sounds like that company was just politely telling you that if you wanted an obscure sticker that badly, they were going to stick it to you so to speak. Just curious, does the sticker have user instructions for the light control or are you just being meticulous in a restoration?

I guess we should all be pretty well used to paying big bucks for anything to do with a boat. Even auto dealers charge $75+ per hour for mechanical work these days, so maybe that puts things into perspective. Looks like none of this is Hatteras specific, but the experience that springs to mind is the time my friend Carl Guzman had to have a prop removed from his 67CPMY while we were in Miami a few years ago. First question out of the prop guys' mouth, how big is your boat?

Sure, big boats have big props which require more effort, but it seemed he was sizing Carl's wallet as much as his boat. Telling him we were at Miami Beach Marina and being based out of Naples didn't help much either I'm sure. As I recall, he ended up charging Carl over $600 to R&R that prop. But he gave Carl a break to R&R the undamaged prop as to match the replacement set he had onboard, seeing as he was already in the water with all his equipment. Seems like he reduced his price for that to around $350.

To put this into perspective, I had paid a diver $250 to R&R a set of props on my 58 a few months earlier. That included him taking the damaged props as well as a second spare set of damaged props to and from General Propeller in Bradenton, FL.

[sgharford]

This is fun -Last year I was quoted $465 for 1 raw water impellar by Cummins Metropower in Brooklyn for a Cummins 903. The Jabsco model is $43. It's in the realm of your sticker ($0.50 worth of rubber?).

[Angela]

I had one of the regular divers on my dock quote Ed $250 to do the monthly scraping on my boat. Ed never responded, and instead Mario found us diver for $90/month. The $250 guy saw somebody else scraping the hull that next day (that would have been the $90 guy!) and had a frustrated look on his face when he saw that we used somebody else. He later saw me in the parking lot and asked me about it. We think he sort of felt like this was "his marina and his boat job", but at $250/dive/month, just didn't work out that way! I tell him, "It's just business, man." Greed is what caused me to run off my last diver and this even more greedy quote caused me not to even respond to that ridiculous quote.

[doc g]

How about 780.00 for a three way switch for a 27 year old watermaker ? I told them I wouldn't consider 780.00 for a three way with a couple of 27 year olds.(Olson twins excepted) They were going to cut me a break on and sell to me for 649.00 since I had done quite a bit of business with them. I found it at Grainger's for less than 100.00 . I think that was the worst one .....this year. It pays to shop around ...........Pat

[Sparky1]

How about 780.00 for a three way switch for a 27 year old watermaker ? I told them I wouldn't consider 780.00 for a three way with a couple of 27 year olds.(Olson twins excepted)

ROFLOL!!!

[newinlet]

How about $150,000.00 for a 87 55C complete turnkey - Sorry I could not help myself !!