Thank you for the advice . My lifts have continued to improve even without the weight gain . I ' ll increase my calorie intake by 250 calories to see if there ' s any progress . <| sep |> haters gunna hate . This is the right tool for the job . <| sep |> I wouldn ' t say it ' s a scam . My story is actually very similar to yours but ends with me getting my car fixed . Back in 2007 I owned a Subaru WRX that was recently hit by a doe on the way back from a snowboarding trip . The doe hit my front driver side quarter panel and a section of the driver side door with both panels pretty dented with chipped paint . I was a broke college kid living in Brooklyn and as much as I wanted to get my baby looking good as new , I didn ' t have the cash to do it . So fast forward to one weekend I was in the parking lot of a Best Buy about to jump back into my car I was approached by a guy asking about my car and said he noticed the damage . He said he could help me out by fixing it on the spot for a very reasonable . Similar to you I was pretty hesitant but hey , the guy was offering a solution to a problem that I had and it couldn ' t hurt to hear him out I thought . He offered to fix the panels read excludes painting for $ 300 , I ended up negotiating it down to $ 200 with a $ 20 tip . It wasn ' t really a hard sell like OP ' s experience but I was definitely skeptical and wasn ' t going to pay unless he delivered . So in the parking lot of a Best Buy this guy busts out his tools and gets to work . I ended up chatting it up with him and it turns out that he ' s works at a local body shop as juniorapprentice which pays him crap until he earns the next rank . So he was looking to put his skills to work on the side for extra cash . He did a pretty decent job and used bondo to resurface the dentsdepressions and after painting the car it looked pretty unnoticeable . From my experience , aside from the sketchy sales pitch in the parking lot this this guy was just some underpaid body work guy trying to earn extra cash on the side .