My body shop story: My parked car gets backed into by someone pulling out of a driveway, she gives me her contact info, and tells me to have the body shop send them the bill. Rear door and quarter panel need to be replaced.

I give them the woman's contact info so he can confirm they'll pay, and he asks me, "Do you know who she is?"

"No."

"She owns [multinational manufacturing plant]. She's the richest person in town. You know, your front door is starting to rust a bit. I can replace that for you too and charge her for it. She can afford it; she'll never even look at the bill."

I didn't take him up on his offer.

Two points need to be made about this thread.

1. This car is never getting repaired. The damage is far too minor to be worth fixing versus the cost of repair. The vehicle is still totally operable. When this thing gets sold, this damage will not affect the value in any way. This is a blatant cash grab by the villains. If you feel badly offer them $200 to STFU and go away.

2. This is entirely villainess's fault. The second thing you learn after the fact that the garage door goes up and down when you press the button is that somebody can press the button at an inopportune time. You don't park your car or put anything in the path of the garage door. If you do, and somebody closes the door, that's on you. The entire concept that OP owes money is ridiculous. The minivan should not be in the garage in the first place. The hatch should be down as soon as the villainess goes in her house.

humble brag: I hob nob with the richest people in town!

I once asked the autoglass guy if hed tint the windows on my truck and just tack that price onto the cost of replacing the rear siding glass window since someone else was having to pay for it. He happily obliged.

I don't feel guilty tho cuz it was the POS criminal that broke into my truck and stole my stereo and got caught who had to pay for it, heh.

So one of my three buddies got t boned earlier this year and this was the damage

The other driver was at fault and their insurance paid. He chose the best rated bodyshop near him downtown which is about 10 minutes from where I live. Here was his quote.



Labor is high but not as high (lol California). The damage is obviously night and day and the quote is laughably similar in total.

Hell is other people.

I would make a framed 24x18 poster with a picture of damages and a quote side-by-side and gift it to a van owner

Thanks for this.

Absolutely. Karma may be a *****, but we can certainly lend her a hand. Go ahead and post the address. Then there'll be too many suspects to ever figure out which one of us did it.

Have to say I am glad I'm based in Australia so will be very low down on the list of suspects. Oh wait, ha ha, we all know they'll look no further than Alobar! Scratch away people.

Would be fantastic if this was one of those role-reversal OP's and the Truants were actually the minvan owners, just sticking it to the poor saps who closed the garage door

so much this.

but obviously whomever closed the door created the damage. they should pay.

damn. that is minor. (pics deleted because having to scroll over the same pics multiple times is annoying)

unfortunately for you, this is one of the those hierarchy things between women, where one woman thinks she is more important than another woman and therefore insists that the other woman compensate her. or, doesn't want the other woman to think that she is more important than her and insists that she be compensated.

either way, if you decide that you don't want to pay for something so minor, it will end up haunting your family for as long as you continue live in this particular burb. this is how America works.

Did we come to any sort of agreement on this matter?

My wife has bumped into her a few times and had friendly exchanges. The last word was she was going call around. No update. I did get to see another pic my wife took and in broad daylight from a few feet away it is invisible.

Sounds like a pretty good outcome so far.

Yup, they're trying to get high quotes to make some cash with no intention of actually having the work done. They're up to their eyeballs in debt and trying to grab a quick $1200.