Hacker Yamaha and Honda of Houghton Lake. My service experience.

[gunman63]

I would agree that $80 is kinda high, but also most all the guys on here want to get as much for there product as they can, example have a item no one else does or wants to cut, premium gets paid for that  product. so what price would  u want to pay for that cookie, is $40 ok for it,  now if it is, maybe if u would have offered that for it right away with out asking the price, the guy would have said  yep thats good, and took your money. but as everyone out there wants it as cheap as they can get it, maybe free, well at times like this it ended up costing  u no cookie, so in the end, it mite cost u more than $80 for a cookie , even tho its free or a low cost, u need to figure time and costs in getting it.  also look at it this way, getting u that cookie would take a hr of the guys time, consider the time stopping producing firewood  to the time they get back to producing firewood. cutting the block , looking for the correct block, moving it, loading it, BSing  with the workers, its a hour gone for him, how many workers would  have stopped producing a product for him. if its just joe from down the street  u mite have got it  for nothing , but not from a business.

[dnalley]

Doesn't sound like much of a business man to me, wanting $80 for a cookie when he's already overrun with firewood in his yard.  Overrun or not, $80 is ridiculous to me and I probably wouldn't have been as polite as bb was.  An hour to cut a cookie???  Ridiculous!!

[gunman63]

your not looking at the bigger picture,, its not the time involved in just makeing the chainsaw  cut, its the time there not producing firewood, shutdown to start up, more than likely more than one guy, and if he  cant make more money for that one peice  than the money  he would have made producing firewood why do it, again its a difference peice  than everyone handles.
 as far as one person thinking hes "overrun" with wood is a matter of opinion, maybe the owner wants twice what he has, maybe he thinks he has  a lot of room for more,  its all a matter of opinion.

[PineNut]

Had a problem with my Toyota and took it into the dealer. Got the problem taken care of but in the process, they found about $2000 of “repairs” needed on the vehicle. Got a second opinion on the recommended repairs and I still have the $2000. Have heard and I believe that Toyota dealers are not to be believed when it comes to service. 

[SwampDonkey]

No more of a problem than any other car dealer. There is also scheduled maintenance on vehicles. I get a list and mileage times about scheduled maintenance. Some people don't fix nothing until they have to and sometimes waiting too long effects something else. There is one Toyota dealer here I don't trust, but where I got my car I trust them but with caution. I know the prices are all the same with Toyota, I shopped around. But this dealer gave me more for my old car as trade. The one shop I don't like made my uncle wait all day for a scheduled oil change, I'd never go back.

[Brad_bb]

Again, I highly recommend doing online reviews of businesses they deal with, for both good and bad experiences.  It helps others.  I like to check out the reviews before using some new businesses.  You've also got to read them with a grain of salt.  I bad review does not a bad business make, but a pattern has to be give some weight.  A glowing review has to be taken the same way.  It could be the owner or someone related posting one or two good reviews.  Feedback is a great tool, so use the power of the internet.  PS. I didn't do an online review of the tree service I had the bad experience with because we didn't actually do any business, though I sure left one for the leather service as they wasted a lot of my time, lied to me about status, and never called to update me when they were blowing yet another promise.