Out of control bike shop bill !?

Write 'kick me' on a post-it note and attach it to their front door! That'll show 'em!

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offer to cook them dinner to say thanks, then serve up something from the james martin cookbook.

Buy an 'All In One' remote from the local Dixons, then wait until they're all watching the Tour De France and start changing the channels! It'll drive 'em crazy and it'll be heaps of fun for you too! Hahaha!

@brickman.. good luck pal, nothing worse than getting rubbish like this from a LBS. even if it is an error, it's still shite. there are some chancers about, thought they only existed nr Brick Lane, Evans or Cycle Purgery :(

find someone on this forum, plenty of recommendations here.. whilst i'd love to do stuff like lacing wheels, i have to agree with others, life is too short and i'd probably kill myself, prefer to put my trust in someone with skillz..

**UPDATE: **
my 'everyone gets 3chances logic' payed out.
Went in, explained the whole thing calmly start to finish to workshop guys, who were flummoxed and didn't really care as they just do what they find on the computer. Put me on the line to the mgr (who lives in same village to me) who was in a different shop, went to talk to him face to face, good attitude and explained the same thing out again.
To my surprise he agreed that there had been a communication error somewhere on their part, they were very sorry, they'd been laced already with the diamond encrusted spokes, but were happy to de-lace and rebuild with my own spokes when they arrived.
He then offered to collect the spokes from my house when they arrive and bring the wheels back when they are done. And only charge for the original labour charge (17+26, though again its communication error on their part, as apparently neither of those figures are correct, its £25 flat rate!).
So, if the courier gets in gear tomorrow I might still have the wheels I want, on my doorstep just in time for the bikes first proper shakedown (a 4-5day tour). Bit frustrating but there you go.

Got a mini question for the forum mob. The built wheels when you run them on a stand look perfect, but when you run your finger along the braking surface (NOT a machined surface) you can feel shimmy between each spoke hole. I wonder if all un-machined rims feel like that, or if the spoke tension is too high? Rims are actual NOS 27" mavic 3CD

That sounds about right. Glad to hear that they are doing the right thing.

The mis-quote on the build price is a bit dodgy though IMHO. (Although £25 is probably a reasonable price).

Well done, your Triple or Quit logic came good. Now you've got the manager on-side you should be alright.

Good outcome. Wish all people could maintain a similarly zen attitude, a silly mistake and poor communication suddenly blows out of all proportion, I mean, the James Martin Cookbook? You're a sick man...

dooks repped.

not London, but the northern wastelands.

Liverpool?

wheelbuilding is for students and mentals.

I just gave a handful of bits and pieces to dogsballs and three days later I had some wheels. Genius.

Res ipsa loquitor