Ravi loved and maintained his car like anything. He had bought the most expansive car he could ever afford using his hard earned money and maintenance money spent on that car always felt justified to him. His friends Ramesh, however, spent less on his car and went to local mechanics for repair and services. Ravi often ridiculed Ramesh for trusting on local mechanics. It was well known that most of them changed the good parts with bad parts and often cheated people.
One fine day, Ravi found car trouble and called his favorite show room authorized servicing center. a representative from center looked at the problem and provided the problem diagnosis and estimated cost. To Ravi's surprise, the cost of almost 1/3rd the price of his car which by now had already depreciated by 50 %. Looking at that he was disheartened and understood that he could not afford to fix his car.
Ramesh, by some means came to know of this issue and suggested him to show the car to his mechanic. Ravi agreed and called the mechanic.
Mechanic looked at the problem in the car and explained that what parts need to be changed. For replacing all the parts and his labour cost the budget he provided was half of what service center had provided. Ravi however was not able to afford even that. The Mechanic suggested that if he could add the good second hand parts then cost could be reduced by further half.
Ravi agreed and mechanic fixed the issue. During the repair Ravi asked if all mechanics changed the good parts to bad parts. Sir, earlier it was quite popular and mechanics used to do that but not now. Years ago when someone needed some part, the common modus operandi was to remove it from someone else and replace it with bad one. But from the time these authorized show room centers have opened up the shops, the problem is almost solved.
How ? Wondered Ravi !
Sir, They replace the good parts with good parts and we buy the good replaced parts cheaply from them, like the one I bought for your car. At least that works for me ...
Ravi was speechless and understood that "authorized" doesn't mean honest and sometimes it may not be bad to seek the second opinion than trusting someone blindly !
One fine day, Ravi found car trouble and called his favorite show room authorized servicing center. a representative from center looked at the problem and provided the problem diagnosis and estimated cost. To Ravi's surprise, the cost of almost 1/3rd the price of his car which by now had already depreciated by 50 %. Looking at that he was disheartened and understood that he could not afford to fix his car.
Ramesh, by some means came to know of this issue and suggested him to show the car to his mechanic. Ravi agreed and called the mechanic.
Mechanic looked at the problem in the car and explained that what parts need to be changed. For replacing all the parts and his labour cost the budget he provided was half of what service center had provided. Ravi however was not able to afford even that. The Mechanic suggested that if he could add the good second hand parts then cost could be reduced by further half.
Ravi agreed and mechanic fixed the issue. During the repair Ravi asked if all mechanics changed the good parts to bad parts. Sir, earlier it was quite popular and mechanics used to do that but not now. Years ago when someone needed some part, the common modus operandi was to remove it from someone else and replace it with bad one. But from the time these authorized show room centers have opened up the shops, the problem is almost solved.
How ? Wondered Ravi !
Sir, They replace the good parts with good parts and we buy the good replaced parts cheaply from them, like the one I bought for your car. At least that works for me ...
Ravi was speechless and understood that "authorized" doesn't mean honest and sometimes it may not be bad to seek the second opinion than trusting someone blindly !
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