THIS IS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT
What crap!! Store
policy or practice may be, but not a
legal requirement.
It's this sort of BS that p1sses me orf. Do some of these people think we are stupid and ignorant? I prefer them to tell me the truth, ie. it's a store policy or practice.
Our local car tyre dealer swaps of the bike tyres for me. Just gone up to $20 a tyre if I supply the tyres or fitted free if I buy (Bridgestone's) from him.
In the days when I would buy tyres (usually from the internet) and fit them myself, I would remove the wheels and take wheels with old tyres along with the new tyres to the Tyre Power dealer. The manager (a bikie himself) would fit the new tyres to the wheels for a slab of VB.
The thread also reminds me of the time I ordered a set of Avon Storms for the Mighty CB1300 prior to a trip north (to the Ulysses AGM at Newcastle). The old Storms were getting low, so with two months notice I put in the order.
I would pass the dealer at least once a week and check on the status of my tyres, each visit I was told, "they'll be here by the weekend". Less than a week to go, no tyres, so I advise the dealer to cancel the order. I then took the bike over to Ringwood on the next Tuesday morning, new PR2's fitted on the spot, ready to head north Thursday.
Return from AGM three weeks later to find a one week old message on my work desk advising that the Storms had arrived. I called to advise that I had purchased tyres elsewhere, and was then to be informed by the dealer that I owed him for the Storms. Despite me telling him to forget it, I get an invoice in the mail.
The invoice was ignored, and so has the dealer since, thus ending a pretty profitable relationship for the dealer.
