- Joined
- Mar 10, 2005
- Location
- Hooterville (24171)
Agreed 100%... did business with a GSO tire jobber for decades and most recently here in VA, but they closed up leaving me few local options:Chain store quality. I've been doing business for going on 30 years with the same store. I now drive an hour just to do it.
Find a reliable mom and pop and darken their door. Then follow up and repeat if treated fairly and given great service.
1) White boys, good service, but charging like they're the ONLY white boys in town
2) White boys, good service, but charging like they're the ONLY white boys in town
Both #1 or #2 will tell you the others are idiots and they dislike each other... with a 99.999% chance they're actually blood-relatives and seizing the opportunity to put a 25+% stomp on their profits (lack of real competition) OR
3) Non-white boys , decent service & OK pricing, but with occasional "no habla" issues
While totally inconvenient (3+hour roundtrip in the middle of my work day/ and aside from the 2 owners, the rest can't spell "tire"), leaning back towards them...