[shifty]

I guess the easiest way I can break this down for you is simple:

Did you ask me to pay you $175 to the cost of work I asked you NOT to do twice?

YES.

Did I ask you to do that work?

NO.

If I asked you not to do the work, and you paid for it to be done, do I *own* any *responsibility* for that money?

NO.

Would you be out money if you would have listened to me when I told you not to do the work?

NO.

Would I still be out money?

YES.

Gas money $325 and trailer hitch $130. But to some degree I would deserve it for not doing my homework, just as YOU deserve to be out some money for not listening to me and not providing the frame we agreed on.

Bottom line - You've got money in pocket and are supposedly out about a hundred bucks - maybe two hundred bucks - for work you should not have had done in the first place. Meanwhile, my expense goes from $455 to $630 that I'm out of pocket total for that trip, not including food because of your mistake?

That's the part I don't get.