Ralph’s Auto Body

i worked for this guy awhile back, around 2008? anyways hes a big crook. i only worked for him about 3 days, i needed a job at the time. i got fed up because i knew i wasnt learning from a great person. i was only 17, anyways i was just there to help with prep and sand. he goes on an tells me his tactics, as advertised hell paint your car for 399. you show up thinking thats a deal. then he will try to sell you other products protective coating etc. which would help for the paint to come out great or last, this an that which will eventually add up to over 1000 if you choose to. an geuss what? if you do choose to. he just got you there! because he would still have to do all that with the 399 price. poor mixture of paint. no skills or technique. very dirty! id say just beware of him. nice fellow. just a bad business man.

Ralph my painted my grey Toyota Camry with a BMW blue, terrific job… fast, quality, friendly and reasonable price…

Ralph’s has engaged in illegal guerilla marketing, posting unattractive signs advertising their business on telephone poles around the area, including one high on a pole in Reading in front of 295 Salem Street. Do not support a business that uses these illegal marketing tactics that spoil the aesthetics of our communities.

**********Warning Stay away!******************
Phase 1 — I will try my hardest to being to describe how much of a crook and awful person Ralph is. Let’s start from the beginning. I bought a car used that needed some a repaint done to it. I had found Ralphs ad’s on CL (Big Mistake) and I was in the area so gave him a shot. I went to visit his office (if you call it that) were we went out my car for about 45min and I pointed out every detail that was to be taken care of. He said after they were finished the car would look like new for about $ 2000 and only take a few weeks at most. I dropped off the car paid my deposit and waited patiently as my car undergoes the transformation process. A week went by I called Ralph to see how he was doing, he let me know they were almost done sanding and things were going good. A week later I showed up unannounced to see the work on my car and to my surprise nothing was even done but a door completely sanded. At this point I was furious but Ralph assured me that they would finish the car in a week. Skip a month ahead and the car is still not finished, granted at this point I had been calling Ralph a few times a week and all the same he has been telling me lines about what he is doing. Finally after 2+ months of aggravation and waiting I get a call from Ralph and he says the car is done.
Phase 2 — I go to pick up the car with my friend money in hand eagerly waiting to see the results. When I arrive Ralph has my car located in a hole in the wall shop with no ventilation next to some abandon buildings. I go into the garage (aka shop — aka shit hole) and start to look over the car. Upon inspection I start to become extremely mad, immediately I am thinking to myself (Calm down no need to go crazy here) … So that fails and I start yelling at Ralph, at this point he starts to stutter and at a kindergarten vocabulary level begin to explain why there is over-​spray on everything and paid drips on every single panel. I am furious now, I tell Ralph that I am not paying for this at all and I just want my car back. Of course he has a club on the car and beings to tell me he will fix it all give him a week. Well 1 week passes I have to go back to this dump of a shop he is not there. Somebody rolls up in a Miata and ask for Ralph, we start to talk he is there for some repair work, I tell him my story and what’s going on. He thanks me for all the trouble that working with Ralph might have caused him and drives away (One poor soul saved from the clutches of Ralph). At this point Ralph shows up shows me the car and nothing has changed. I tell him I am not paying for this and he can keep the deposit, the car looks worse now than it did before. He won’t let me take the car, I call the cops they arrive long story short for I fill out a police report — lets go to Small claims court!
Phase 3 — I don’t feel like typing anymore Short story. We go to court — I won — of course he appeals — I missed my fucking court date because Irene hit and left me without a car and I could not remember the date but the case is dismissed. ugh… whatever I still won in the end just never got reimbursed — as long as this review gets out and stops people from going to see this crook I’m happy.
Please don’t go to Ralph at all unless your want your car to look like complete trash, be lied to, wait forever, speak with a baby dick kindergarten talking grown man that cant comprehended English or for that matter have any skills in the art of painting or bodywork.

This is the guy who scams everyone on Craigslist with the following ad
Start up company in the Billerica area is willing to
pay $ 20 per month to place 2 ½ magnetic like SIGNS
on your vehicle to help promote our business.
Must live, work or go to school in the Billerica area.
A $ 20 refundable deposit is required to get started.
For details call Ralph at 978 587‑7179
Seriously this guy is a complete ass hat abusing CL spamming the event section getting people to PAY to advertise for his company!
This review is based on his business practices not his actual work he does on cars, that is if he even does!!!