Must disagee here. The tire/wheel price is fixed. I would have paid the same if the lug bolts were in the deal or not. Tires=x Tires+bolts=x therefore bolts=0
> -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf > Of Andrew Grebneff > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:12 AM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: Found: alternative longer lugbolts > > > > > ><< Got you beat. > > I got mine for free from the junkyard and didn't pocket them. > > Just bought some wheels and wasn't charged for the bolts. >> > > > >Yer ears were burnin', eh? > > > >Mr. Dooley, that was but a marketing ploy by the junkyard. You didn't get > >them for free. They just factor all the freebies into their > bottom line. In > >other words, it's part of the price of the wheels. > > > >I got a free car once. It's just I had to pay $30,000 for the tires. > > > >BenT > > Depends. If they set a price on the wheels alone without knowing he wanted > the nuts, and then he told them, they might have said "you can have them". > > Andrew > |
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