A well known custom gunsmith that has a great reputation on this forum took my son’s CZ75D in for refinishing and trigger work. While they had it in the shop and were disassembling it for refinish, the trigger bar spring screw broke. In an effort to remove it, without informing or consulting me, they went ahead and used a carbide cutter and ended up enlarging the hole and thus destroying the frame. The gun was functional when it went into the shop and is now a parts kit.
They refuse to accept full responsibility for this and have offered a P01 at their cost (so we pay their cost) with $100 salvage value for what was a $400-450 gun going in. This does not sit right with me: the only complete slide I’ve seen sold was for a P01 that went for $570 on eBay, a stripped slide at Apex is $199 and just a used extractor, firing pin, hammer and trigger alone would be more than $100 on top of that. To say nothing of all the other parts. Another forum has given me values of $250-350 for the complete slide alone. So I’m reaching out to this forum: what would the fair value of an early CZ75D in good condition parts kit be? The $100 offer seems to be completely against the reputation this shop has for fair dealing, Their offer puts them out $0 and us at a loss of at least $300 for damage that occurred while the firearm was in their shop.
