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Old 05-29-2005, 07:49 PM
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Default Re: insight tires

Usually they have a sale at least once a year where you get $60 for a set of tires.

Here's a quote from my previous experience buying tires in January 2005.
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They were having their "$60 off a set of tires sale" but for some reason the price of the tire only showed $48.99 per tire in my online shopping cart, instead of the regular $59.99 per tire price that is shown in the tire description page? Not sure why it showed up this low.

Basically I just took it as a buy 3 get one free deal and didn't worry about the "missing" $20. It was still a good deal.

I could have called customer service to try to get the extra $20 but didn't. I figured they might want to change the "error" of the $48.99 price and try to change it back to $59.99.

In any case, here is the Costco tire price I got when checking on their site.

I went to the Costco Website and it came up as total price as
$226.57 installed.

Here's the breakdown:
Per tire
$48.99 tire
$1.00 disposal fee
$10.00 installation package
$2.50 State fee (your state may not have this)

Multiply this by four and you get...
$249.96 subtotal

Add
$12.48 Non-member surcharge
$13.12 Tax
subtract ($48.99) Coupon - (this automatically showed up)

$226.57 ORDER TOTAL

There is not a Costco near me so I took the Web Page print out to a
local Tires Plus that has a set of tires in stock and they PRICE
MATCHED! Good deal, since Tires Plus originally wanted $81.62 PER
TIRE installed. (before tax)

For the price match deal it worked out, before tax, to be $53.36 per
tire installed! ($226.57 - $13.12 = 213.45. Divide by 4 equals 53.36)

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Eric Powers

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