# Service men with "estimates". This is super shady right?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 17, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/service-men-with-estimates-this-is-super-shady-right/1025792 "2025-12-17T17:21:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/service-men-with-estimates-this-is-super-shady-right/1025792/21 "2025-12-21T02:19:17Z")

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> [@chela](#):
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> Thus past Monday my car battery died.

Happened to me two days ago. Guy with a tow truck came, but he charged only CAD65.

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**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/service-men-with-estimates-this-is-super-shady-right/1025792/22 "2025-12-21T16:06:22Z")

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Seems fair enough.

I googled then called what I thought was a local tow company, but I wasn’t familiar with them personally. The call was answered with, “City-name Towing”, he took down details, repeated them back, I had to correct the make and model. 🤨. Next the call was transferred to a guy with a heavy accent and the connection was poor, supposedly they are 5 miles away but he quote $250!

That was suspicious imo.  
Fuhgeddaboudit!

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