That being said, allow me to make a case for his idea based on a different POV...They add the 10% for their inconvenience, gas, whatnot. Most good contractors & mechanics don't mind if you buy the parts or supplies (or a gift card). They are more concerned with their clients' best interests. My mechanic encourages me to buy my own parts whenever possible to save me money.
A contractor or mechanic would do better to please the customer then to worry about being able to tack on 10% of $75, don't you think? At least, my mechanic would - and his reward, instead of a measly 10%, is my continued & loyal patronage through the years. My son's dad is a carpenter and always tries to save the customer money.
Why yes, of course.
There have been times--in either automotive repairs or home repair--that the mechanic or other expert has advised me to just go ahead and get certain parts, and no big deal.
However, the sparkling husband primitive has a track record on Skins's island of trying to be devious and clever, as if to forestall someone "cheating" him.
I've always found that people obsessed with being cheated, are those who cheat.
And however too, the sparkling husband primitive is a Democrat, a liberal, and a primitive, and at least vocally supportive of those in the union-card-carrying manual trades; the working man.
But then the sparkling husband primitive goes out of his way to do things himself rather than hiring one of these working men, and those rare times he does hire an honest working man, the sparkling husband primitive keeps tabs on him as if the guy's going to cheat him.
Is the sparkling husband primitive a hypocrite, or what? He says one thing, and does the exact opposite thing.
I think the Democrats, liberals, and primitives need to be challenged more, regarding their crass hypocrisy.
