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Originally Posted by Shazam
People are fixated on Costco for some reason. You barely save any money buying wheels there and the hassle is ridiculous.
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I got Costco tires for the first time (new car) and the entire process is such a hassle as a customer. Only doing this the first time to get them mounted and then I'm done.
Order the winter tires & rims - but on separate sites because the rims are outsourced and not actually Costco. Rims get shipped to my house, tires get shipped to the store. You book your appointment on a third, separate system after all of that but don't know when either is going to be shipped so can't really make an informed decision on when to book.
Tires show up at the store first, now they're asking me to either pick them up, schedule an earlier appointment (not possible), or they'll return them within 5ish business days.
Fine. So I go to the store, wait in line to pick them up and bring them home, and go back to waiting for the rims to arrive.
3/4 rims arrive at my house, eventually the 4th one does as well but it wouldn't have been within the 5 business day return window.
Now I'm storing 4 tires and 4 rims and I get to cart them all back to the store for my appointment to get them installed. Ridiculous.
In the end, you get a slightly better price than say, Cdn Tire or Kal Tire on the tires and mounting, but what a hassle.