I hate Walmart - a little long

Begin laughing now....

I bought tires at Walmart for my 1989 Wrangler.

Ok, now stop laughing.

They had a great deal on Goodyear Wrangler Radials 235-75/R15, $50 a tire! Can't beat it. They are discontinued and Walmart got the last batch. I needed tires, and I had the same Wrangler tires on my Jeep for the last 7 years, and got 40,000 miles out of them. So I was happy to hear about the deal.

I had a 215-75/R15 spare tire on my matching spare wheel, and I wanted them to take the best looking old 235 and make it the spare. So 2 hours later they tell me they can't get one of the back wheels off, it's stuck. Ok, well this happens on drum brakes, and you just hit it with a hammer and it unstucks. Well, they wouldn't do it. They refused to get a hammer and knock the thing off. So I asked them to leave the stuck wheel on there, and change out the spare... So when I got home I would just knock the wheel with a hammer and switch the spare and the back wheel/tire. I was about 20 miles away from home. Well they said they wouldn't do it. They said leaving the half worn 235 on the Jeep would ruin the 4 wheel drive system. They said if one tire is not like the others, it will break the 4 wheel drive system because one tire would slip. They just wouldn't do it. So I asked to talk to their district manager, she said she was the district manager. So I asked for the Regional Manager's phone number. AHHHH! I was pissed.

So I drove around to 5 different places to find someone to knock the wheel with a hammer, everyone said they couldn't do it today. So I finally went to Monroe and they took out a huge hammer, hit it, and the wheel came off - no problem. I went back to Walmart and got my tires. So then I went back home and then to a birthday party, many miles the other way. When I got to the party I noticed they charged me $8.01 per tire for a warranty. What? The work order said, "customer accepted the warranty". They didn't say anything to me about a warranty. They just added it to my bill (illegal in NY, by the way). I called them and they said I was crazy to want to return such a great deal like a$8.01 warranty on tires. I said, ok, what if I tire does go bad, what do you do? They said we'll replace it. Well, if the Goodyear Wrangler Radial tires I am buying are discontinued, what are you going to replace it with? "A tire of equal quality" At this point I was going crazy. Didn't they just tell me that if one tire was any different it would break my 4 wheel drive system?!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I called them back and they said I could bring it to the nearby Walmart for a refund. Fine, so I went there, and they said they can't do it because they don't have a Tire place in that Walmart. By this time it was 9pm and I couldn't make it back to the original store before they closed. So I called back up, and they said I could get my refund at the 24hr Super Walmart. (I have to work for the next 9 days, then I go on vacation, so today is the only day I can do it) I said put me on hold, call them and make sure it's alright. They did. So I went up to the 24hr Super Walmart and they gave me a hard time. I just stayed there, until they gave me my money back.

I still have to call the regional manager and complain about the district manager. This is the second time she has given my girlfriend and I a hard time. Last time we special ordered tires for my gf's Grand Cherokee we were told it would take 2 weeks, cause it was Christmas. Well, we called every 2 weeks and they said they were on order. In May we had enough and had to talk to the District Manager, and she was rude to us.

Walmart sucks for tires, but they have the lowest price on them.

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Jim85CJ
*snip*

I have a feeling the RM will take a look at the incident. "Hm, the DM made the sale. Good job!" Complaint closed*.

*The DM might get lectured on how to properly sucker the customer into buying the warranty next time.
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Jay Stuler

walmart sucks for most anything....but they do tend to have the lowest prices. i hate to spend a dime at wal mart because of their "imminent domain" issues (getting local governments to force private citizens to sell their land to walmart) but sometimes it just doesnt make sense to shop elsewhere.

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MontanaJeeper

Wallmart made their money on the 'pile it high, sell it cheap' philosophy.

Sounds like they had a shipment of BS fresh in.

Mike

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Jim85CJ

thats what I would have done.....

oh yea....I DID do that.......

system?!!!!!

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trailboss

"imminent domain"

elsewhere.

It's "eminent domain" and, one, it always makes sense not to do business with thieves and fences-which is what WalMart then amounts to- and two, going elsewhere isn't that much more expensive. I decided that Walmart was going on my list of shunned vendors when I realized that the difference between WM and the rest of the world was roughly four percent. We decided to buy our groceries from union supermarkets and clothes from clothes stores, and I figure it costs us an extra $400 a year or so. I figure that other considerations aside I save $400 in time alone because the lines are a lot shorter, since everyone else is at WalMart.

I'm funny. We have aircooled Volkswagens in the family and one of the secrets to keeping them going is using the correct oil-an ashless dispersant oil formulated for air-cooled engines. We use Chevron AD aircraft oil (Aeroshell is tough on seals,something that took me a lot of case-splitting to figure out)and getting it from chain auto joints is out of the question. There is one mom and pop auto store left in town, and I buy all our motor oil from him despite the fact he can't buy "regular oil" as cheap as WalMart retails it for.

In the long run, we'd all be ahead to think that way. WalMart isn't going away, but whether everyone else does is up to us.

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Ted Azito

sure. but walmart solicits the local governments with promises of jobs and tax revenue. i say be pissed at both, but i can only show my disapproval with the local governments at election time (though it wont matter, promise most any politician tax revenue and the result will be the same). with wal mart i can show my disapproval every time im able to buy what i need elsewhere.

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Jim85CJ

i hope this isnt supposed to be comparable somehow to governments failure to recognize what private land OWNERSHIP means.....and that its for financial gain makes it even worse.

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L.W.(ßill) Hughes III

the government wouldnt take the land were it not for wal mart soliciting them for it. i can support the government exercising eminent domain for a just cause (an endangered squirrel who found his way onto your land is NOT a just cause) but for financial gain is disgusting to me and my resentment would be for everyone involved in the process of stripping private citizens of their own land. the same is to be said of marriot hotels, which have done the same thing. if youre a fan of talk radio, tune in neal boortz sometime.

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he is an amazing libertarian whos ideaology parallels myown closer than anyone else i know of. in fact it was through neal boortz thati came to realize that i wasnt a republican afterall, but a libertarian.

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Jim85CJ

soliciting a wrongful act is just wrong as commiting the act in my mind. if you hire someone to shoot your wife, youre both guilty of murder. i just cant support any business that engages in practices that i dont approve of.

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Jim85CJ

i dont care about asking for help/tax breaks/special considerations. i care about stripping private citizens of their own land.

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