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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
This is getting comical, loose tires are free money in between regular jobs. I showed up out of the blue and dropped off a wheel and tire and said call me whenever there's no rush. There's no rush price or peak pricing, tires are fairly seasonal in general. The mentality of ripping off some rando off the street because you can, guarantees they'll never return.
Shops know they need to compete with the internet pricing now, gone are the days of 100% markup on tires. Buying tires from the shop or elsewhere matters less all the time.
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It's not free money at all. It's peanuts and a PITA. And of course the guy who buys some cheap tire somewhere else and then wants it installed at the place he didn't buy the tire from goes on the Internet to complain about the price. Clearly he was a walk-in (as in he didn't call before to check price or else he would have gone somewhere cheaper), so he wanted it
now, didn't care that people were ahead of him, and had no interest in purchasing anything from the shop thus cutting them out of the opportunity for a fair mark-up on the tire, but wanted the cheapest price he could get. The business owner was like, 'sure, and our price is $75.' Did buddy walk? No, he paid it and then came to bitch about it on the Internet. I'd say the business owner had him pegged correctly and charged him appropriately. You can't win with some guys.