I was not including primer in that price.
Maybe my uncle is stealing it for me from his shop

 

Thats not normal. A pint of unthinned paint (pure color) of Dupont or PPG is about $50-90 bucks, depends on your hookups. Clear is another 20 for a pint, and thinner is about 10. Primer is cheap.

There is no way you are getting a quart of paint for 18 bucks, unless your best friend is the owner of the store/shop.

 

I figured it out and that is how much his shop pays for it.
The 18 dollars included the paint only, not the clear.

But they have a lot of clear being a body shop, either way im getting mine painted for 18 dollars and case of old style.

 

can you DIY paint the lip with duplicolor or something?

which s2000 colors can you do

 

I'm having my bumper and lip painted for $250. [shrugs]

 

I bought a replica lip which fit like crap so I then bought an OEM lip and had the lip and bumper both sprayed...$80 for paint, $400 for prep work and spraying. The bumper I had was absolutely BEAT and scratched up but now it all looks gorgeous. I stand by the "you get what you pay for" saying where this stuff is concerned.
I guess if you don't care a lot about it you can rattle can a knock off lip and call it a day but that's not what I was going for and Spa is a difficult color to match.