This location damaged my 2005 Nissan Maxima (which until that point had over 100K miles and had NEVER been in so much as a fender-bender). The technician changing the oil backed my car into another customer's car when trying to take it back out of the bay. The manager (Ha Nygn I believe) told me when I came to pick up the car that an accident had happened and that they would take care of fixing it. He made a notation on my receipt, took some pictures and told me to get a couple of estimates. It took me many, many months to return with them due to my work schedule (my delay). But ever since I came into the location with the estimates months ago, Merchant's has given me the run around and REFUSES to return my calls, acknowledge the claim in any way, or make payment!!!! \r
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I was told I would have a check for the average between the two estimates in 4-6 weeks. When over 6 weeks had passed with no word and no check, I called the Hwy 70 location only to find out Ha was no longer at that store and had apparently never filed my claim with corporate. It took weeks of phone calls to get the new manager to finally tell me he had submitted it (but he wouldn't provide any information or claim number, other than a general corporate phone number to call. He's been completely unwilling to take responsibility for seeing this issue resolved, just tells me to call corporate.\r
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Escalations to their corporate office have been more than useless. All you can reach is a customer service rep or CSR supervisor with no power to connect you to anyone who can answer any questions. All they can do is take my information and apologize that no one is getting back to me. I FINALLY received one phone call from a supposed regional director for Merchants (Ron McClure?) who said he would investigate my claim and promised me a call back in 2 - 3 days. It's now been close to another 3 weeks later, with no word, and my calls are ignored. It's obvious that these are delay and stall tactics to avoid paying for the damage.\r
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AVOID DOING BUSINESS WITH MERCHANTS TIRE AT ALL COST! They will not make good on anything they accidentally damage on your vehicle and will lie to you repeatedly. They apparently have no interest in customer satisfaction, let alone doing the right and ethical (not to mention) legally correct thing in this situation.\r
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I guess it's time to get my attorney involved, which is ridiculous considering there wasn't any question of fault to begin with. But now they don't want to pay up for the $1,400 worth of damage done to my car!!! \r
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BEWARE!
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