rbowman posted for all of us...
wrote:
So all "discernable advantages" should be paid for by someone else
and provided to you for free?? Sounds a little bitopportunistic anda
lot like a bad case of "entitlement"
I won't mention politics but SMS's view that he is fully capable of
maintaining the pressure in his tires by checking it with a tire gauge but
the general populace is not and should be provided with a free benefit to
save themselves from themselves has a familiar ring to it.
There is NO "free benefit"! The customer pays for EVERYTHING. A business
must make a profit to survive. I don't know Costco's business model on tires
but it may a selling point that costs then very little in the volume they
do. Ask Claire, he will tell you they had a price structure they followed
and the only thing that wasn't figured in was rework. But that was included
in the labor charges and/or tech agreements.
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Tekkie