Artistic Upholstery and Fabrics

Need to get sofa reupholstered. Get coffee at Garden Catering. See this cool looking place across the street. Go here with intention of picking new fabric and getting this reupholstery nonsense checked off our list. Walk in. Man asks about our project. We tell him. He goes into office and prints us a quote. WHOA quote is really expensive (~$ 2300 not including fabric). Why is quote so expensive? How many hours labor does this take? Man has no idea, maybe three days? Yeah like 30 hours. Okay, so this quote sheet means that your labor rate is $ 65/​hour? Because 30×65=1900, what you quoted us. Plus the new cushion. Plus fabric. Man doesn’t really seem to know how long it takes, nor what his hourly rate is. He is confused. We are confused. Let’s move on: let’s see fabric. Tell us about hardy but beautiful fabric. Man points out all of the cheapest fabric in the store. Weird. We don’t want cheap fabric. We want good, hardy, artistic, beautiful fabric. Man goes into office and doesn’t come out again. We leave. Weird! Pretty showroom though.