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Good old Sears and Grabuck. Glad they are no longer. I bet yours was a high pressure sweatshop too.
Can't believe Sams Club did me this.
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Still remember the 10 minute oil change place I've been to over 20 yrs ago me being me I asked if they greased the u and ball joints. Nope they lied straight to my face and said they were sealed. I then showed them all the grease fittings on the drivetrain and front end. Imo if your going to charge someone to perform maintenance or fix your car don't lie to my face, I understand mistakes can be made certain things can be overlooked just own up to it imo and don't try and sell me overpriced windshield wipers and air fresheners.
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One up town that I'd never set foot in. They hire high school kids part time and they don't know an oil filter from a tire stem. Scary place. I replace my own wipers and use Rain-Ex in the washer bottles. Not that cheap blue crap.
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Sears was a good business until the idiots that ran it decided to just get up and walk away from their customer base back in the late 60's early 70's. Idiots. At one time, the biggest employer in the Free World and the 4th largest company in the world. At one time.
It takes real talent to run a company that size out of business.
Enter Walmart, Good-Bye Shears. Nature hates a vacuum.
This is the problem with too many old-time Companies in this Country. They promote people on the basis of 'Get-Along, Go-Along'. IOW, they're 'inbred' to the point that nobody ever has an original idea. Everybody agrees with their boss. Or else....
Generic Motors followed them soon after. At least Shears didn't cheat the American People out of 20 BILLION dollars like GM did.
Even without the imbecile Eddie Lampert buying them, Sears was a poorly run, top-down idiocracy. Just another, arrogant, stupid, Illinois dinosaur.
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My philosophy with GM is, for all the taxpayer money they fleeced, every licensed driver should be given a new car free... Between that and Cash for Clunkers which was also a scam.
Well in one aspect you have to learn somewhere if your not fortunate enough to have an old-timer teach you basic maintenance procedures growing up. I do however agree and I don't want a kid touching anything I own who's spends more time on an Ipad than actually trying to learn something hands on. My stuff is my personal guinea pig for me to figure stuff out on. Lol
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Put new tie rods and ball joints in customer's car early 90's. He drove straight to Sears for an alignment. They told him tie rods and ball joints had to be replaced before alignment. He mentioned he was the county prosecuting attorney...alignment was performed at no charge.
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GM and Chrysler also used the shield of bankruptcy to void all their existing dealer agreements and rewrite them under the new entities. That's why you saw a lot of smaller GM and Chrysler stores close. New agreements demanded new buildings and small dealers got the shaft. Many families lost their life savings they had in now worthless buildings. It was a sin, even if you don't like dealerships it was unfair.
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I firmly believe that Generic Motors had it planned all along.
Chrysler? Not so much. Chrysler couldn't organize a one-car funeral at that time. What Daimler did to them was borderline criminal.
When Generic Motors did was out-and-out criminal
The Administration's Auto Bailouts and the Delphi Pension Decisions: Who Picked the Winners and Losers?
Much of the government’s political intervention in the bankruptcy cases appears to have been motivated to benefit the UAW rather than the companies themselves over U.S. taxpayers, who put billions of dollars at risk to fund the bailouts.
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I will never go back to Sams' for tires. Had a set of BFG KO2s put on a Ford Superduty.
Truck rode rough, I took the tires back and asked that the rebalance the fronts. After waiting two weeks for an appointment.
Watched as the tech balanced only the rear tires, then the TLE supervisor denied they even removed the rear tires. I had a picture on my phone! They offered to redo it.
Instead I drove to Discount Tires, where they balanced all tires for $50, all were way out of measure. Truck rode smooth back to Sams, where I showed the receipt to the club assistant manager who paid it in full, after being told by the TLE supervisor "They'd never pay for an balance elsewhere because we do them here"
Truck rode rough, I took the tires back and asked that the rebalance the fronts. After waiting two weeks for an appointment.
Watched as the tech balanced only the rear tires, then the TLE supervisor denied they even removed the rear tires. I had a picture on my phone! They offered to redo it.
Instead I drove to Discount Tires, where they balanced all tires for $50, all were way out of measure. Truck rode smooth back to Sams, where I showed the receipt to the club assistant manager who paid it in full, after being told by the TLE supervisor "They'd never pay for an balance elsewhere because we do them here"
