In article rz0rc.113$Sx2.102@okepread01, Michael Shaffer wrote:
Sue him.

For WHAT?? Did you read the post? He authorized the work, _in_writing_, at the
quoted price, _before_ the work was performed. See below:

The guy charged me $261 per GFCI, for a total of $783. He spent an hour to
do the job. I told him before I signed the work authorization that this
seemed expensive and asked about a discount but he just frowned. Is this
really a fair price?

You see that? "before I signed the work authorization"