xkunalx
join:2004-12-27
West Chicago, IL
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Re: [Help] What do you think of these tires?
why didnt you call a local shop and have them match prices with Tirerack? I did it last year when i got tires for my dad's car. Local shops will usually match prices with shipping factored in and install them at a lower price since you bought the tires there. we saved a lot of money going this route. FWIW it's an option to anyone in the market for new tires. |
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Doctor Olds
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clubs:
| said by xkunalx  :why didnt you call a local shop and have them match prices with Tirerack? I did it last year when i got tires for my dad's car. Local shops will usually match prices with shipping factored in and install them at a lower price since you bought the tires there. we saved a lot of money going this route. FWIW it's an option to anyone in the market for new tires. Match what savings? Ask for a $2.55 price match on 4 tires? Seriously? Don't you think it would be silly to ask for a 64¢ per tire in a Price Match?
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xkunalx
join:2004-12-27
West Chicago, IL
1 edit | the tires my dad wanted were $59 a piece at the local tire store and $38 a piece on tirerack. Standard shipping would have been $7 a tire, with that figured in, the local tire shop sold me the same tire for 38+7= $45 which is a $14/tire savings. Then they installed them for a smaller fee since i bought the tires from them and threw in free lifetime balancing and rotations...without even looking at installation, i saved $64 which was totally worth the phone call i made to the tire shop to ask if they matched prices. I didn't have to wait 7 days for the tires to come in or carry them to the tire place. The people at the shop were happy to have my business and i was glad to save some money while supporting local business... |
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Doctor Olds
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| That's wonderful, but you cannot use a blanket statement to apply/compare your Dad's purchase to mine which is what you attempted to do. It's very likely your local shop overcharges for their tires plus labor and the local shop I use (independent, not chain) by comparison does not or has more local competition and prices their tires accordingly. That is very likely why you had a $60.00 difference and I did not on two separate cars and tires sizes/brands I compared online and locally.
And you skipped the question I posed since you didn't see there was a $2.55 (64¢ per tire) difference not $60.00 in the tires I'm getting.
Bottom Line: Asking for a Price Match is useless and a 100% waste of time when the difference is under a few dollars as I clearly posted in my details you must not have fully read. 
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Stiofan
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Post Falls, ID | He made a suggestion. Why bite his head off? |
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Doctor Olds
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| He made a non-serious suggestion to ask for a price match on a $2.55 difference and that is ridiculous to do so on a ~$290.00 purchase.  It seems obvious he didn't read what the actual difference was.
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