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Someone's deleted for not signing it comment suggested I turn the assholes at Tires Plus into the DMV.
Their word against mine, and nothing happens.
Posting to Facebook and tagging The Lovely Harvey... Her friends can see, their husbands will hear...
If any of them were using that location, they'll stop.
That'll do far more damage than siccing the gubmint on them.
This word of mouth thing has killed other shops in the area. There's a Goodyear Tire and Auto location that is gone because of this.
Before the Internet was a big thing a tire dealership pissed me off... They were new, and were offering a grand opening special on a set of BF Badirch Radial T/A tires in the size the Chevelle I was driving at the time used. They were significantly less than the Goodyear Eagles I'd been using so I bought a set, being assured that "I'd love them they're great high performance tires". Well, I wasn't impressed. at 5k miles the rears were shredded, and I mean literally. Showing cords and having chunks of tread coming off. To be fiar, I had not been getting near the advertised milage on the Goodyears either. That car was just too much fun. But 5k was about 1/2 what I had been expecting. I went back and asked them to pro-rate me another pair. I wasn't even asking them to replace them for free, just cut me some kind of deal. Not only no, but "hell no". Wrote a letter to BFG, got told basically to FOAD, dealer says no, they say no. Fine. F. them, I had already bought a pair of Goodyears by then and went on my way. BUT... I made a point of telling EVERYONE I knew and everyone in the car community and anyone else I came across that BF Goodrich sucks, they don't honor their warranty and in particular that dealer sucked and were thieves and wouldn't honor their word or warranties.
ReplyDeleteSo... a couple months later I get a "ceast and decist" letter from the dealer's attorney threatening to due me for slander if I kept saying bad things about me. WTF? Not that it would have gone anywhere if they had tried because I wasn't saying anything that wasn't true.
I sent their lawyer back a letter double dog daring them to sue me -- at the time the only thing I had of any value was the car and I figured no judge would take a man's car from him and deprive him of his ability to work and support himself. So I basically told them I'd represent myself and they'd never collect a dime and they or their client would have to eat all their legal fees.
Well, as I suspected, it was a bluff on their part. They never sued me. I doubled down on trash talking them using their asshole move of threatiening me against them.
Said dealer was out of business in less than 2 years. I think all 3 stores in their little chain. Of course I can't really claim that was me, from what I heard they screwed over a lot of other people with bad sales techniques and shoddy service. Good damned riddance though.
-swj
Sounds like an action by a good friend. A good friend would not want others to get ripped off by con artists. Many years ago, my wife purchased a Chevy Tracker that had a bad spare tire. She noted it to the car lot, they gave her a ticket for a free tire. The tire shop replaced tire on spare rim - cool.
ReplyDeleteExcept later on when wife dated tire and found it to be expired. BEFORE IT WAS MOUNTED ON RIM ! She kept the receipt and took it to shop with evidence of when it was installed. They didn't do anything, just sat silent.
Wife bad mouths that shop even to this day. Piss her off, it does not go unnoticed. I've learned to be careful around her, lol.
jrg