I Have not dealt with alot of shops. I have 1 LDS about 30min away the next closest is 2 hours so i’m sort of stuck. The one I do go to I have spent alot of money in and a few weeks ago went in to get a reg work done just change out DIN to Yoke connector. Would have taken a couple minutes shop owner wanted to charge me $50 said there was a 1 hour min. From that point on I will no longer be loyal to that shop.
As for the dive community I have met alot of people that really go out the way to help you seems like there are lot of great peoplein the dive community. But there is a select few in the dive community that seem to always try to make their self look smarter by making other people look dumb.