[Oldsguy]

Some outfits like Bumper Boyz have a bad reputation although I can't say from experience that is true. Supposedly what happens is they take old bumpers (cores) and re-plate them. The problem is that there is no gaurantee that the old core was in any better shape than the one you send in for re-chroming so you may end up with a nice chromed bumper but it may not be as straight as the one you started with that had bad chrome. About the "new" bumpers, if the really are new I guess you don't have a problem but remember that chroming is a plating process and the beauty comes from the polishiing as much as it comes from the plating. Many people report poor chrome not becuase of the plating or "number of times it was plated" but from the low number of man-hours put into polishing the newly plated product. The general consensus I have observed is that using a local shop that you can see their work and get a feel for the level of trust they have with their customers is better. If that isn't possible I would think doing as much research on a particular company, i.e. asking about company XYZ and what people think of them and their service and workmanship would be the next best thing. Good luck.