voiceofreason
North Carolina,#2General Comment
Fri, June 24, 2011
Ken, you're right. No ripoff here. But this recent practice of making mail in rebates in the form of prepaid, short expiration gift cards, is annoying and regrettable from a customer relations point of view. Right up there with all the other fine print terms outlined in all rebate coupons. If Pep Boys cared about making a potential repeat customer happy (in a business whose stock and trade are consumable merchandise often purchased repeatedly over the years) then they'd bend a little and request their rebate management partner issue the customer a new card. Call it 1 time courtesy, whatever, just like Amazon is famous for doing. What would it cost them in the grand scheme of things? And they'd probably cement a life long customer relationship. Piss poor customer relations. I'm assuming of course the customer already tried getting them to do something. If not, then the customer needs to make that effort and I'd call the corporate offices, not regular customer service. Hey, if O'Reilly's will eat a $2k plus truck repair for selling the wrong fluid, Pep Boys ought to be able to do this.
Ken
Greeley,#3Consumer Suggestion
Thu, June 23, 2011
You made some (wrong) assumptions and you blame everyone but YOU for the "Ripoff".
No ripoff here, unless you count yourself. Man up.