[Joe Marconi]

The cost of doing business in NY is high. It seems as if the expenses are going up faster than our sales income. How do we keep pace with cost of living and still remain competitive? It's hard to decrease fixed expenses.

[DewayneP]

Sorry, I know this is an old topic, but I too have my shop in NY and can tell you it is crazy. I just recently began the "process" of being able to perform NYS inspections at my shop. Well, It's been 3 months and over $3000 later and I'm still not ready to go. Way too many Chiefs AND Indians in the NY DMV. Not only that, but why did I want to do inspections in the first place? An inspection costs the customer $21 (for most vehicles outside of NY City, there are differing prices dependent upon vehicle age as low as $6 for a trailer), the sticker itself is $6/each, a dedicated phoneline is needed at $50/month, 2 phone calls to the testing center at $.325/each, paper, ink for a laser printer I HAD to buy (no choice with the inspection computer other than laser or inkjet) by the time I'm done paying all of the hands in the pot I'll be lucky if I make $10 for an inspection that is supposed to take at least 20 minutes (not including getting the car in the bay and up on the lift). Tell me again why I wanted to do inspections in NY? Are there other states out there that have to deal with this? I think the company that makes the NYS Computers is making them for other states, do they cost as much for you? I am of the opinion that NYS needs to raise the price we get for an inspection to at least $30 so we don't have to rely on the "inspector finding work that needs to be performed". I think if they raised the price there would be less fraud in vehicle inspections in NYS. What's everyone else dealing with?