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Old 07-01-2010, 10:52 AM
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Located near St Charles, MO they are trying to bill my buddy for $34k on a rebuild project that was quoted $18k. Now additional work was done to the tune of $3-4k. The boat was picked up in December, promised by May 1, now July 1 and another $12k appears on the bill. Another case of a shop trying to screw a guy.

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Old 07-01-2010, 03:03 PM
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it would be interesting to hear some specifics and the other side of the story.
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Originally Posted by stevesxm
it would be interesting to hear some specifics and the other side of the story.
No doubt I just finish a project that started out with a twin engine rebuild at about 10K and finished with 150K boat rebuild.......... my customer is happy.
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A number of years ago, I brought my 28 Cigarette there for service, 2 weeks later it was still sitting in their lot, not in a locked area, not chained down, not covered.... I took it home and found a different shop. Later I started to hear simular horror stories like the one posted here.

Stay away from them.
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Imagine that
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I have had good luck with them
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Horrible to deal with and will screw you every chance they can. Never on time. I have quite a few horror story's about them. Two other friends of mine used them and had bad luck with them. They lie through their teeth. STAY AWAY!!!!!
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Any facts or just accusations
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they have been around along time and can do good work . Customer service is not there strong point and they are way expensive. but thats stl boat work one of the reasons my engines are in Michigan
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They have lost me as a customer, I asked for a quote to convert my boat for tripple to staggered and Jeff told me he would get back to me by the end of the day with a quote.....and that was three weeks ago. I have called and left 10 messages and no calls back. After I hung up the phone the other day leaving my last message I thought to myself "If they don't have the time to return a call regarding a large job, is this the place I want working on my boat 2 1/2 months from boating season?"

I really would like to stay somewhat local, but if I have to travel I guess I will.
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