Originally posted by FreeProjectPat:
I didn't order online from Tires.com, but did get my wheels from their store. They are awesome...The reason wheels are cheap online is because you still have to get them mounted and balanced. For example, at wheelsnext my package was around $1200, but on sale for $1000...Discount tire got a great deal, mounted and balanced. If I bought online, after I paid for them to be mounted and balanced, the price would be more...Plus, one of my wheels arrived bent. They replaced it...That will not happen with an online company, you will just be [censored] out of luck...Happy hunting...



OK. Here's the whole thing. You say you bought your wheels and tires locally. Then you say

1. wheels are cheap online because there's still mounting and balancing to be done,

2. The online deal you could have worked would have been more expensive, in total, than doing the whole thing locally, and

3. That one of your wheels arrived bent, and the local place replaced it to your satisfaction.

You conclude with this point:

"That will not happen with an online company, you will just be [censored] out of luck..."

So, your whole paragraph makes a pretty clear point that buying online is not the way to go (in your opinion.) You are not specific about what online company you would avoid.

I'm sure you know what you thought you said, and that you think you said what you were thinking when you wrote what you thought you were thinking, but I don't think you did.




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