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No, but it's also not the responsibility of consumers to keep mechanics in work if they can get the same result cheaper by buying new
PhilDAS-
I didn’t say it was*.
However, “same result” might be pushing it if we are comparing a decent set of Shimano brakes (I’m not actually sure what brakes @lynx has but mineral oil could be Shimano) and some £44 Srams.
I’d also argue that, for some people, ‘buy new brakes, throw old ones in bin’ isn’t the same result as ‘fix old brakes’ regardless of how the brakes perform.
I would say that it’s not the mechanic’s responsibility to work for a pittance just because new brakes can be bought for cheaper and it behooves us all to recognise that training and experience are both costly and valuable. Being dismissive of someone charging what they’ve evaluated their time, knowledge, experience etc to be worth just isn’t a good look imo.
*My personal choice would be to learn to do it myself and spend the £60 (or even just the £44 or less) on some tooling which would do nothing to support the mechanic.
M_V
The low price of new parts doesn't make paying a mechanic properly for their experience, equipment, overheads etc "a joke".