Jeff’s Transmissions Plus

I was having some minor transmission issues with slow shifting and slipping when making tight turns so my mechanic, John at US Auto Works recommended that I take my truck to Jeff’s. John had just finished doing a bunch of work on it, doing the rears and a few other things 24 hours before I got it to Jeff’s.
John and I stood under the truck and he pointed out all that he had done and why he was recommending a Transmission shop for the rest of the work. The underside of my truck was dry as a bone. Always has been. No leaks ever.
Jeff called me later that day to say that my transmission was pretty close to shot and that he didn’t want to do the service because he didn’t think it was going to fix my problem. He didn’t charge me a cent, which I thought was pretty cool of him. But when I got to the shop to pick up my truck, he had no recommendations on what I should do next and sort of implied that I should find a used replacement or just let this one die. That bothered me a little, so I immediately drove the truck back to John to let him know what had happened.
On hearing the news he put the truck back on the lift and it was soaked! There was transmission fluid from bell housing to fuel tank! It was EVERYWHERE!
My mechanic told me to take it to Ford have them do the service, which I did. Ford just called me to explain that the leak was caused by overfilling. They also explained that the last shop (Jeff’s) should have put it on the computer and checked for codes before dropping the pan…
The long and short is that the transmission service should have cost me about $ 140, but now that I took it to Jeff’s it’s going to cost nearly $ 500!
I’ll be the first to admit that NONE of this makes any sense. I can’t imaging why my car would both get messed up AND have «nothing done» AND there would be no charge when it’s clear he did something.
I’m out $ 360 additional dollars to clean up a mess Jeff made for free. I don’t recommend the place. Not at all.