It's tough at the moment jay isn't it?I'm basically in the process of fucking it all off myself as the public are just total wankers too deal with,if one more prick walks into my business saying they can get the job done cheaper I'm going to respray THEM!!!Had a beauty in this week wanting to spend £400 on a car with tax and mot,offered him my little 1.4 escort,92k two owner car,plenty of tax test,power steering and straight too,had £800 spent on previous mot and he told me I was taking the piss at £350 cos his neighbour bought a 1.8 for £200....no t&t mind you!!!Peeps think us traders are taking the piss but I've got to make at least £20 per hour times 40 hours per week so when I charge £30 peeps think it's a piss take.I use autodata to plan jobs so I'm only going off guidelines and peeps tell me it can be done cheaper and why have I charged them for oil,antifreeze etc,what,that's free is it?Asian guy came in today asking if one of the boys could do the job in their time to save him money as my price was too high,quoted him £140 to paint a bonnet,rust on a wing and too buff out the door bottoms,nearly smashed the cunts head off!!did have some good news though as we've just got a trader on board who's chuffed with our work so it'll keep me busy for a bit.on your idea,I've done it myself a few times to people I know and tbh some peeps are great and really appreciate it but others take the piss,it would be hard to supervise and you could end up losing little tools etc as it's so hard to police everything.like you said,there's plenty of people on your estate that you don't really want to upset as they do meccy stuff,painting etc but if you think about it you'll be pissing them off by allowing people you don't 100% know work in your place at a reduced rate,they'll see it as taking work from them anyway so frankly,why not do it yourself?fuck it mate,it's survival of the fittest now,you've got to do what you've got to do,after all,if they pick up a little bargain then they don't think of you when they sell it on.I've got an mot centre two doors down from me,I offfered him approx 2-3 mots a week if he could do them for £40 with free re tests, like the other place offfered me and he just said no,so I fucked him off and I've taken 10 mots there in the last two weeks.