Re: [ST] New Tires

[Dave Bardell <dbardell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard
Regarding your comment  "

The damn shops can't compete with mail order tyres

It is basically true, but the local shops are probably paying almost as much, and in some cases, more than the mail order sites are selling them for.  Probably due to volume, but I know for a fact that many times the dealer could go to the same site that any of us use and buy tires for the same or less than what the distributor would charge him at dealer cost.  

So we end up paying for his services --  the only thing he can offer that the mail order joints can not compete with.  

In some cases, they may be overcharging, but it will probably bite them in the end.  

Dave Bardell
MIllerSTown, PA 
01 ST




Masiak, Richard wrote:

>It's so complicated because of one word - GREED.
>
>The damn shops can't compete with mail order tyres so they charge outrageous prices to change them for us.  THe cheapest way is to bring your wheels to a race track on race day and have them changed and balanced there, approximately $8 each to change and balance.
>
>RIch
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
>Zoltan Pavlakovich
>Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:55 PM
>To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ST] New Tires
>
>
>When you are saying ...I bought new tires... who is actually installing
>them? Your bike store or yourself? I bought a new rear tire and had to
>return it with a loss because nobody would install for me. At the end it got
>really complicated: dealer wanted $75.- to take the rear wheel off and
>reinstall it. It would have cost me another $25.- for the tire place to
>change and balance the tire. So I said enough of this and luckily worked out
>a deal with the dealer: $200.- for a BT 014 installed or I go somewhere
>else. Why does it have to be so complicated?
>
>Zoltan
>
>01 ST red
>
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