It happens to all of us.

So your a locksmith trying to make a living so you can put food on your family dinner table.  You work every day and try to help as much as possible.  Then comes a day when someone calls for your service, you drive twenty minutes to let the person into their apartment. It takes your two minutes to do the job, when you ask to get paid the person says "I am not paying you didn't do anything".  What do you do? Do you call the cops, wait for two hours and maybe get paid, do you start fighting with the guy or do you ask him how much does he want to pay. So he says well ill give you $40 instead of the $95 that he was quoted on the phone.  So being the gentleman that I am, I opted for the $40 dollars. I look at as a karma thing, if I allow this person to get away with what he did maybe his karma would change somehow for the positive.  Also some people don't know how to be nice about situations.  For example this person could easily have said listen dude I cant afford $95 can you give me a discount? You know 95% chance I might have just given him the discount, but instead he chose the rude way and insulted me, by saying I didn't do anything.
Honest locksmiths use three ways to gain entrance into locked doors. If the lock on the door is a standard lock and the person just closed the door behind them and got locked out, we try to shim the door lock open, and usually we are successful and it usually happens very quick.  If the shim doesn't work then we pick the lock, and once again if we successful then it happens very quick. Now if those two ways don't work then unfortunately we must drill the lock open.  When the lock is drilled open we do it in a way where we only destroy the cylinder and not the whole lock.  For any of this lockout service abbaslocksmith would charge a flat rate of $95.00 to open the door. We provide service for all of New York City.  Abbaslocksmith can usually get their locksmiths to locations within 30 minutes.  We have technicians located in Flushing, Corona, Elmhurst, Woodhaven, Forest Hills, Rego Park, Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, Whitestone, Green Point, Ridgewood, Park Slope, LES, UES, Bushwick, Williamsburg and many other neighborhoods. So give us a try you will not be disappointed.  516 362 1459