Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch
From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Muffler static
Message-ID: <654@shark.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 02:49:31 EST
Article-I.D.: shark.654
Posted: Wed Mar 28 02:49:31 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Mar-84 00:34:54 EST
References: <225@sjuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
Lines: 17

<bruuddddddaaaaaa VROOOOOOP VROOOOOOP ping ping *clunk* "midasize it">

| If you got away with just $65 at Midas, you're lucky.  I've been to
| Midas 2 times.  Both times the damage was over $200.  Both times they
| had a sale on, and I was suckered in by the prices ... then they pulled
| out the old "..the mufflers on sale won't fit your car!" routine.  This
| may have been true, but they saw that I didn't have the time to shop
| around.  Well, twice a sucker - maybe; but never a third time.
|				Binayak Banerjee

Say, that sounds like the old "Bait and Switch" and whenever one of those
happens, RUN don't walk to your nearby cops, and talk to the guys in the
Bunko division.  Enough investigations and even Midas will stop.  Maybe.

Hutch

Ps.  Better yet, borrow their phone to call the Bunko officers.