auto repair bussiness that charge a pre programed per cent shop fee
By echobay4
@echobay4 (1)
United States
November 18, 2006 8:49am CST
This Shop Fee is being added to all consumers bill if they use anything or not. My recent incounter with this SHOP FEE was last month that total $149.00 this consisit of 10% of the bill up to $300.00 or $30.00 + 7% tax I know that was needed to be repair did not require any special things to complete those repairs.
since the florida law allows shop fee charge I can not find out what pre cent cap they can can keep add to our repair bills????
1 response
@beaniefanatic13 (5068)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
25 Feb 10
These shop fee are popping up all over the country. In the state of California shops can't charge this fee. These "shop fees" that are being charged to all invoices include but aren't limited to the following items: gloves, floor mats, seat covers, shoe covers, steering wheel covers, brake clean or some other solvent for cleaning metal surfaces (not just for brakes), rags and bumper covers (cleaning of rags and bumper covers). This is just a small list of things that it could cover. So in almost all repairs the majority of the above would pertain to any vehicle repair that you had done.
Not sure if your saying that you were charged $30, but that would be an excessive charge and I would call someone about that. As for 7% tax, almost all states have some sort of sales tax ours is 8.75%.
Good luck!
