Its fraud if the OP presents an inflated quote from an MB dealer to the other driver who pays the amount on the quote and then the OP takes the car to a cheaper garage and pockets the difference.
In a past life, I have written more estimates than I care to think about for the main Dealership that I worked for. In fairness, the majority, wanting to keep their vehicle to manufacturers specfication, gave the repair job to us. Some of course, got the main dealer quotation, and then took the car to some one else....not a thing in the world I could do about it in a lot of cases. But in some case's, the car would be traded in to us, but the fact that we had not carried out the repairs, ment a very reduced trade in price. Also, we had a very good reputation when it came to crash repairs.. what we repaired we stood over. At that time, it was one of the most modern and up to date Body Shops in the Country, with the very latest in alignment and jig system's. So we were expensive, but you pay for quality, and car's never suffered price wise after our repairs. So now we come to the question of Fraud....I would not be inclined to agree with you. Say, after getting an MB repair quote, and the Indy one, the owner decides that he will trade it in.......should he go by the MB quote, or the Indy bodyshop? Bear in mind, that the Indy might not have the same facilities as the Dealership? And the job is not to the same standard.....?? So what he pocketed from the quote, he could very well lose more than he gained in the long run.
Happy Ending !!!! And just to show that there are Happy Endings,, not all shunt's are horror storys.My minor disaster involved my SL being reversed into a couple weeks back, I priced up the parts and went back to the offending driver who happily paid up the price to have my car sorted
Yes Sl500, that's one way to solve it !
Yes, and it could be contagious........True, he could say he has amnesia, anything is possible these days
