Sounds odd to me.

You might think that the dealers will "rip you off" but ask yourself how often you want to take your car to someone else who's obviously not diagnosing your cars problem so far? What's YOUR time and hassle factor worth? Many who don't know much about the particular car in front of them will simply guess at parts and that can be costlier than proper diagnosis.

Any dealer will only charge you one hour to diagnose a "no start" problem. They also should have at least one master tech with enough experience who should be able to arrive at a proper diagnosis.

That's my $0.02