Number 2

iTrader: (1)

We just won't install brand of starters that we don't sell. If someone has a compustar already they pay full rip labour like everyone else.
Were $110 basic
Keyless $ 75
standard add $50
Deisel add $50
bypass usually $120 (60 for kit and 60 for lab) cust never loose a key cept VW's
factory sec $40 for arm and $40 disarm
horn honk $ 25
trunk $40
Combos $200
Most starters, newer vehicles, never less then 5 bills
These prices are in line for Edmonton. We have 5 guys booked 6-7 work days in advance and everyone works 12hr days. Smaller joints that charge less are already booking into the new year.

selective sound

iTrader: (11)

Edmonton is deffinately not like Ontario, too many little guys and tint shops do it for next to nothing, than you have XS cargo selling autopage starters for $29.00. Our season starts later than yours, it's just getting cold now. From this point till February we are busy.

Lethal

I'm already booked into January with a couple "odds and ends" openings between now and new years.

I'm just getting bloody tired of the.....
"3 week wait!!!!! The mechanic shop I went to said they would do it today!!"
or

"Whaddaya mean you can't install it on my lunch break? My buddy says he can do them in 20-30 minutes."
or

"@$800???!!!??? For a starter? in my 2006 Dodge Ram Turbo-Diesel Standard-Transmission with heated seats & mirrors with keyless entry and factory alarm system with transponder key!!!???!!! Your ad says $148 installed. Futureshop said they'd install it for $159.99"
or

"But I'm from out of town."

I could go on but I am already having dreams of friggin starter quotes while I sleep. I might have to spend my starter commisions on a hot tub and a 6pack just to get back that warm and fuzzy feeling I used to get over the winter/holiday season.

extreme1

Joe, you need to work in an Alberta store for 1 winter, toughen you up to the starter thing, we don't start having the nighmares until closer to Christmas buddy....

Lethal

My starter season started in September. But I'm all up for an employee exchange program for a few weeks. Call Jody, set it up, and I'm on my way!

I'll even buy the first 2 rounds.

Number 2

iTrader: (1)

Tis the season. One of my guys spent about an hour with some oddball guy to put a $139 installed crap deck into an old crap vehicle. Buddy calls on saturday at 5:30 to tell me he's running late. No kidding i can see your 30 min late already, and your calling to say you'll be like another 15 mins. Sorry my guy took a walk in. Guy freaks out telling me this is bull and he won't wait another week to have it put in. I just say rebook or return. Comes into complain to a manager who basically tells him "If you knew we book a week in advance, why wouldn't you just show up"

We need a compost bin out back for customers like that.

MR2NR

iTrader: (66)

We don't really have a starter season here due to our normally non snowy and non cold climate down here on the ocean. That said it has snowed 2 feet in 4 days (woohoo as that led to 28 hours of snowremoval at $125.00 hr) and as such the bay is booked on starters for the rest of the week. Nothing like being out in a warm truck plowing snow while the guys are back at the shop installing starters.

I work my system as a labour cap. Buy my products (at 40 points) and I will cap off your labour at what I know the install should take, add shop materials of $5.00 hr for every hour of install, add relays, bypass modules at full pop etc. Bring me in a Crappy Tire starter and your labour is not capped, it is $60.00 hr + all the same additional adds ons that are necessary. Is $750.00 installed on a Compustart RS / alarm out of the ordinary, not here it isn't. It really pains me to see how some retailers give away the ranch on their products just to get the labour. The local Crappy Tire is a example of it. They have their units on sale for $49.99 and they don't even install them there, they all come to me.