Thursday, 10 May 2007

• Is Your Mechanic Cheating You?

  So I've been to jiffy lube a couple times because they have a $19.99 early bird special on a signiture oil change.  That includes a regular oil change, topping off all fluids, vacuuming all floors, cleaning the exterior window, and a couple of other things.  Not bad for 20 bucks. 
  
  But I've noticed that every time I'm there, they try to sell me something else.  The first time around, it was to fill up some fluid, I forget.  I tell them no.  Then they do it anyways and charge me and then I have to argue with them for the next 20 mins to get the charge taken off.  So it happened again yesterday.  I get my oil changed, different jiffy lube, and they tell me my freon is low and I need new wipers.  I say no to both and then they ended up replacing the wipers and charging me.  So we argue and they take the charges off.  But the funny thing is afterwards, they actually took the new wipers off and put the old ones back on.  But I noticed while I was there, the guy would tell each person, something needed to be fixed.  Like, do you want your transmission fluids flushed?  You need a new this, or a new that... to each person. 
  
  So I get home and I decide to check out some complaints ppl would have about Jiffy Lube and wouldn't you know it..... check this out.  http://www.nbc4.tv/investigations/8881193/detail.html  Just beware of getting scammed by them.  I also found out, their goal is to sell $60 worth of services to each person.  They also work on commission basis, meaning, the more they rip you off, the more they make.
  
  BEWARE OF THE JIFFY LUBE. 
  

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