Disgusting pigsty of a store.
12/30/14 (3-4:00pm)
Long story short, I had my tires stolen by "mechanics" (THIEVES) while waiting an hour and a half for a purported "tire rotation". After I had waited during this 1.5 hours, the kindly store associate lied through his teeth, "I am sorry, but we can't rotate these tires because they are too old. Would you like to BUY new ones from us?".
1. Why the HELL would I want to pay you to rotate old tires???
2. Do you think that I fit the naive college kid stereotype; that I don't know you replaced my new tires with old ones???
Moving along, I mistakenly left before realizing the dual-points stated above, and I checked my tires when I got home, only to realize that my brand-name Bridgestone tires were not there. But these burned-out, unbranded, thin-tread tires were in place! What a trade-off!
Naturally, I called and spoke to the same store associate (I should have recorded his name, but him and his gang of thieves were concealing their name-tags...), and unloaded my barrage of complaints and a single threat of filing a police report (just for gigs). Trembling, he responded, "Come down and we can figure things out.", while avoiding my questions and failing to change the subject.
We arrive at the Walmart Tire Center, exhausted and ready to get this over with. My parents and I walked in, and a manager with two higher-up associates were already there, waiting for us! Ooh exciting! I unloaded my story to the manager, and she told me to wait; they would check the security footage. Waiting a half hour for a response, we are greeted by the original three dunce-caps, only to be told, "We checked the video footage, and there was no evidence of your tires being replaced." ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. So I kept my brewing anger under control and calmly responded, "Oh. If that's the case, let us have a look at the video." One of the higher-up associates couldn't even look me with her thieving eyes to tell me, "Under Walmart policy, we are not allowed to show you the footage." THEN HOW DO I KNOW YOU AREN'T LYING TO ME???
After hearing this life-saving news, the two mechanics continued to jerk each other off, perpetuating the lie, and continued asking the manager, "There's nothing on that camera, right?" You wouldn't believe how close I was to grabbing that mechanic's chicken-neck and- *explicit details*
Lesson learned.
1. Don't trust mechanics.
2. Don't trust Walmart.
3. Don't trust Walmart's mechanics.
4. Document your vehicle's appearance before going into a mechanic (if absolutely needed).
5. To avoid 4, learn how to maintain your own vehicle!
In the end, my previously used tires aren't even worth pursuing (even if I could witness the thieving mechanics filed with felonies), and I'm taking my business to Costco. $2.50 x 4 + ($2.50 x .065) = $10.65. I would have paid you that amount, had you done the honest thing and rotated my tires. Ten freaking sixty-five. Absolutely inhuman.
I'm going to generalize it (logical fallacy), and tell you to never go to a Walmart for anything auto related.
-400/10. You guys owe me my tires. read more