Never Ever Take a Car With Rims You Care About to Costco Tires

[UCGal]

[quote=bababooey]The tire center is one of the best places at Costco, no free food samples thus no family’s with grandparents and children abandoning there shopping cart in front of you to hoard as much soylent green as they can get.[/quote]
OMG this is funny. The sample carts and how people react to them is one of my pet peeves. Your description is great.

[The-Shoveler]

You will never starve as long as you have a costco card.

[svelte]

I’ve never really understood Costco and the legion of Costco fanatics.

It confuses me on many levels. We’ve had a free membership (given to us) for over a decade now and we’ve probably been in Costco five to ten times.

First, with just my wife and I at home buying in bulk is a huge waste of money. Sure the price per unit is lower, but we’d throw out most of it. I guess if you have a large family Costco may make sense. But I also can’t help but feel large containers contribute to overeating.

Second, I’m pretty particular about exactly what I buy (purchase after oodles of research) so getting a great deal on whatever random TV they have in stock doesn’t appeal to me much. If it isn’t the exact one I wanted, then the great deal would still leave me less than satisfied.

Third is the checkout line. I’ve never been in there when it didn’t feel like an overcrowded swap meet up by the checkout stands. Just pandemonium with a lot of wasted time. I want to zip in and zip out.

It may work for big families….other than that it leaves a big question mark above my head.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=svelte]I’ve never really understood Costco and the legion of Costco fanatics.
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Costco is how America commits the sin of gluttony. I’m guilty.

Costco has a “delight your customer” motto. They have cheap “luxury” items that make you feel like you’re got to buy them.

You can also buy toilet paper there and have a supply to last you a long time. They are the biggest retailer of toilet paper!

[scaredyclassic]

Big jars of herring in white wine vinegar. Excellent.

Floss, lots of it.

200 lbs of cat litter.

I love costco.

[Coronita]

I like Costco’s optometry department.

They take VSP for filling the prescription glasses, and even though the coverage for Costco is reduced for Costco, the frames at Costco are pretty inexpensive, and unlike other optometry places I went to, they lenses are pretty inexpensive and includes polycarbonate+antiglare+antiscratch…

I rarely wear glasses, so I don’t need something that is fashionable. I was able to make it out of the optometry department recently with a decent pair of glasses + a clip-on sunglasses for about $20 out of pocket, which isn’t bad considering the normal place I go to I haven’t been able to get something comparable under $80 out of pocket…

The photo department is ok if you know what sort of machine they are using, and ask what setting they have going…Then you can calibrate you digital photos before sending it to them….

I skip the food and free samples generally… Looks like I’ll be skipping the tire dept too 🙁

[Coronita]

Update….

So Costco never got back to me on the damage claim…The onsite manager told me that if I wanted to go get a detailer and see if it polishes out and send him the bill….

I figured it wasn’t worth the hassle…

Meanwhile, I did find a good installer in Clairemont…

C2 Motorsports. Got new rims and tires for the auto-x car and C2 Motorsports does great job.. Awesome guys…

https://www.theracersstore.com/

Costco automotive.. I’m done…

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