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Posted on 06/05/2025 9:51:27 AM PDT by piytar
Excellent service!
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This praise involves the Batteries Plus store at 4681 Morse Road.
I went in to get a battery replaced for my favorite watch that was gift from my now deceased Mom. Was planning on going to a jewelry store later to get the mechanism fixed. Well that became unnecessary -- Harold at the store FIXED MY WATCH for FREE!. Talk about good customer service!!!
Stopped by to get a special battery at one myself. Found out you could get electronic keys there cheaper than the dealer. And they programmed it also at no extra cost.
They have all kinds of batteries and light bulbs. Costs a little more for some of them but the selection is way different than the usual big box store.
I have patronized that chain a few times, never been disappointed. Agree, they are doing it right.
Batteries Plus is a good place to find oddball batteries. If the store doesn’t have it in stock, they can usually have it ordered in.
Only drawback is that they’re a bit pricey on common batteries.
I have several goodies that take these oddball little batteries that look like a coin. And they have them. From now on it’s my first stop.
What few times I bought anything from Batteries Plus, no complaints at all.
I’ve always had great services at very reasonable prices at Batteries Plus.
On a side note Batteries Plus also accepts old florescent light bulbs for disposal. May seem like a small matter but I appreciated their taking my junk pile old bulbs and they were in a convenient location. :-)
I had three tractor batteries lying around. I took them in as cores, for which I was promised a $25 credit for each of them.
I later wanted to purchase a large AGM marine battery for which I had been promised a very good price from another vendor. Batteries plus would NOT combine those credits for the purchase. Hence the other vendor was cheaper anyway. Effectively, they screwed me out of the $75. I would never have given them the cores if I had known they would not combine the credits.
> On a side note Batteries Plus also accepts old florescent light bulbs for disposal. <
Thanks for the tip. I called my local Lowe’s about that. Yes, they said. We’ll take them.
So I bundled up my old florescent light bulbs (tubes), and off to Lowe’s I went. Only to be told there that they only take the short tubes. And of course I had the long ones.
I ended up disposing them at a community collection event. That was a pain in the neck.
My Husqvarna riding lawnmower battery died. Batteries Plus is nearby and they had the battery in stock for a fair price.
I buy car and tractor batteries from batteries plus. I've never had an issue with them,
for warranty claims, I don't even need a receipt, they have my phone # and the serial number from the battery.
They are more expensive otoh their service and selection is above any other battery seller I've bought from.
I put my long, florescent bulbs in the deep, city-provided, tall trash can then close the top as much as possible. I then hit the bulb with a hammer. The pieces and white powders/gas fall into the bottom of the trash can. Problem solved.
Finding good service today is difficult.
Covid put the final nail in the coffin regards service in this nation.
Most businesses were already going on the cheap even before (Indian help desks, no daily room cleanings in hotels, automated service that takes forever and can’t address nuanced issues...) but it went dramatically downhill during Covid.
We once were the nation where the consumer could have it his way and was always right. Service was excellent when compared to the rest of the world.
Today, the US reminds me of some Soviet East block nation when the wall was still up.
“Service was excellent when compared to the rest of the world.”
service is decent at our local one but they have “phone repair” signs ALL over and try to get me to drive 30 miles to a store that actually repairs phones.
auto parts stores give 10 bucks store credit for a core battery, they will put them all on the same gift card so I had them put 5 batteries worth each on a pipe of gift cards (we get a lot of core batteries in scrap cars) and used them for christmas gifts :)
You are making enviroweenie liberals cry.
Yup,
The US once was the envy of the world!
We were the place that was striving for better, at everything.
Bigger and better cars, bigger homes with a pool, bigger airplanes, wider more plush seating, longer and better warranties... Hotels and some cars with AC standard starting in the 1960s!
More everything (Chrome, leather, etc), bigger everything (engine, trunk, seating space), faster: https://cdn.rmsothebys.com/2/4/f/6/1/0/24f61086a89cba1549fbfe0c303d5eefb5760fee.webp
Today we are slouching towards mediocrity in every aspect.
We are literally racing to the bottom with smaller cars, smaller hotel rooms, no inclusive check bag on flights, no included food or drinks on a flight, less and shorter warranties with lots of exceptions, no in person customer support, customer support that can’t even speak English, intermittent room service, no more breakfasts included, hotel rooms without a balcony or even opening window, ugly and impolite stewardesses or some effeminate homo, lack of parking or paid parking everywhere (where you’re supposed to come and spend money but still pay to park your car), power outages (as in the grid coming down because it’s hot or cold), extra small plots of land for housing, extra small efficiency apartments.
I was going to sarcastically state that I should be happy because at least we still have toilets which flush, but then I remembered the 1 gallon per flush EPA limit years past and all the toilets built for several years that couldn’t even push a turd down until 2023 when the EPA changed their rules! https://aspe.org/pipeline/u-s-epa-to-revisit-requirements-for-water-efficient-toilets/
We are a nation where the bridge you drive over may collapse, and the road is full of pot holes, your kids will graduate high school marginally literate and unable to write cursive, BUT we have rainbow colored cross walks, and some are proud of it! Look at that proud idiot: https://x.com/JimGrayLexKY/status/1401948771039199234/photo/1
Not sure how we got to this point (I suspect governments greater involvement in everything has something to do with it - they F everything up they touch: air travel, education, health care...). But we’re heading in the opposite direction we should be going. The idea is to always improve, not race to the bottom.
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