{"id":48548,"date":"2026-07-02T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/?p=48548"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:28:08","slug":"businesses-using-the-greed-label-to-spew-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/businesses-using-the-greed-label-to-spew-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses Using The Greed Label To Spew Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

These complaints aren’t just levied by consumers but other detailing business owners, and I will address both parties.<\/p>\n

This is a story some small business owners can relate to.\u00a0 I was out and I ran across this person that casually knew me.\u00a0 He saw my logo and asked if I do detailing.\u00a0 I told him I am the owner of a detailing business.\u00a0 He begin to talk to me like I had showed up asking if McDonalds was hiring.\u00a0 “Come on Tuesday, I have some cars for you.”\u00a0 Aside from that not being fair to the individuals I committed my time to on that day, I tried to explain (while being talked over) my process for booking with me.\u00a0 His response, “you must not want to work!”<\/p>\n

This person was being (is) a jerk.\u00a0 But let’s delve deeper here.\u00a0 He could not fundamentally wrap his mind around the fact that I am a business owner, in addition to being a skilled technician in a industry with various types of services for different groups of consumers.\u00a0 He could not get around his prejudice of it being a basic cleaning and that I was some proverbial ‘bum’ off the street looking for work.\u00a0 People who provide haircuts or photographers etc deal with animosity like this.\u00a0 For business owners reading this, there are a lot of people you are mistakenly trying to appease that guy that I described.<\/p>\n

In terms of basic decency.\u00a0 It goes beyond what YOU or YOUR PEERS think something is worth.\u00a0 Even if you are right and so many people in the industry are universally wrong, I would not go to your source of income and count your money.\u00a0 Many of the people bragging about expensive places going out of business, fail to see the irony in their many complaints of “where has the quality gone!”\u00a0 They also like to say with such surprise, “I had a guy who did all of this for much less but he stopped showing up.”\u00a0 As a consumer as well, I am proud to remind and encourage others that accountability needs to include consumers as well.<\/p>\n

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I will speak to business owners (officially or illegitimately) specifically in the automotive detailing industry.\u00a0 Disparaging attacks suggesting peers are charging too much, screams jealousy and self hate.\u00a0 Disparaging remarks about what customers are allegedly entitled to for basic paint correction and ceramic coating services, or interiors, are still common.\u00a0 I am bombarded with comments in my newsfeed, ‘ripping off’ and ‘stealing.’\u00a0 The use of emotional manipulation within the industry screams, “if I am not competent or confident to charge more than no one else can!”\u00a0 I could go with in an industry with no standards, that these people are in no position to act as experts on the matter.\u00a0 I could go with a reminder to look at other industries, to see if we are really that hard on consumers.\u00a0 Most people who get that you make sacrifices going into business for long term wealth, would say for those only wanting to be ‘reasonable to all customers’ should work at McDonalds.\u00a0 But I did not start a business because I could not work with others.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

I want to start by saying, yes from one perspective you can look at me as biased as a business owner of a niche industry.\u00a0 You could also say I have empathy and a overall understanding many willfully fail to acknowledge.\u00a0 As a child growing up in a middle class lifestyle, I never felt entitled to a haircut.\u00a0 I started detailing my own car, because I had an innate understanding that it is a luxury service.\u00a0 Whether a business succeeded or not were ultimately the consequence of business owners.\u00a0 But I never made affordability anything but a personal problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These complaints aren’t just levied by consumers but other detailing business owners, and I will address both parties. This is a story some small business owners can relate to.\u00a0 I was out and I ran across this person that casually knew me.\u00a0 He saw my logo and asked if I do detailing.\u00a0 I told him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":49362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1412],"tags":[1240],"class_list":["post-48548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-running-a-detailing-business","tag-detailing-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Businesses-Using-The-Greed-Label-To-Spew-Hate.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-cD2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48548"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49363,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48548\/revisions\/49363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}