My $60 paintjob!!!

[NoHachi]

Well, a full paintjob costs around 2500-5000 E here in Holland too. Most of the cost goed towards disassembling the car and prepping it for paint.
Do the disassembly yourself and the price drops to about 1500E
Do all the primary sanding yourself and the price drops to about 800E.
Put on a coat of primer and do the final sanding stuff and the costs drop to anything between 300 and 500E.
Then there's the car-salesman special, which basically entails some minor sanding of the top coat of the car (by yourself) and the paintshop laying down one thick coat of (usually non-metallic) paint. This would be the equivalent of a roller paintjob, use better paints and give a smoother result. It is about 5 times as expensive through..coming in at anything between 250 and 400E.

I would advise anyone who would like to do this kind of thing to first take a look at a car that has been done earlier. The pictures do not really show the details that can catch the eye in practice.