Are dealership shop supplies required by law?

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Have you always been like this, making things more difficult for yourself or have you evolved to this point?

haha yea Mar is the type of person who would read all the legal fine print when opening up a basic savings account vs 99% of the population would just flip the page and sign away haha lol

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Wait, actually?

In that case, disregard my remark about doing this because he has spare time haha.

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Or a surgeon I went to see that kicked me out of his practice when I told him I would prefer not to provide my telephone number. Or when I was recently diagnosed with ASD

There you are, sir. Haha.

[Mar]

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Why didn't you give a fake name and number? I would say it would make things 1000x easier

No, see this is the exact mentality I have a problem with, it is easier......for you. Your suggestion simply solves the problem for you but gives everyone else the middle finger. My suggestion, which wastes a huge amount of my time, is hopefully beneficial to a much larger group of people coming through the system behind me that won't run into this problem. If I can get a single dealership to quit running this scam, then it's going to save thousands of dollars for people, or it's at least going to make them more aware of what's happening and their options for going elsewhere in the future. Unfortunately this time I just wasted my time and nothing happened, can't win them all.

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Is there a formal process to opt out? RBC used to call me a lot to "ensure my satisfaction" until I told the guy on the phone that every single phone call reduced my satisfaction and if I could expect multiple calls per month I would be switching banks. However, i still get a few per year.

Good tip on the "fake" phone numbers. I'm writing those down.

RBC used to call me all the time when I was with them, they kicked me out too. They used to ask me, "What would you do if you had an extra $5000 to spend?" My first reply was always, "I'd do the same thing I do with the rest of my money, hookers and blow." I stopped getting their calls after that, the best response I got was from some girl that immediately sputtered, "EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!"

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Mar should move to the EU. Their new privacy laws would be a dream for him. Anyone that has his personal information, he can request to have it removed, and it needs compliance within 30 days haha.

No way, Microsoft was accused of having a monopoly on web browsers since they only ship their operating system with Internet Explorer. They were forced to ship it without a browser so, I'm assuming, the only way to get a browser on a new computer in Europe is to use FTP. Crazy Europeans. Also London = surveillance hell, I don't even let people take my photo. I once worked at a company that wanted to go out for lunch and do candid photos for the marketing on their website until I refused to release my photo. I worked there for another week after that. But then the board of directors crashed their stock, buying out the executive team's $12,000,000 in stock options for $200,000 and dismantling the company so it was a happy ending.

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haha yea Mar is the type of person who would read all the legal fine print when opening up a basic savings account vs 99% of the population would just flip the page and sign away haha lol

I've been told many times I'm the first person they have ever known to read an entire document start to finish, they usually point to the signature line thinking I can't find it or something. When I applied for a new account after getting fired from TD, I had to read all the documentation and when the guy handed it to me I asked him how the USA can run on a Declaration Of Independence that's a single page, yet an application for electronic currency storage can be 13 pages. He looked at me as if I had an extra chromosome.

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There you are, sir. Haha.

More likely asperger's, but yes. I have to set up a test in the new year but it's hard to find a psychologist that will test adults. It took dating a doctor to figure this out.

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This Mar is much better than the old one, entertaining, but just the right amount of crazy.

Nothing he has said has been outlandish, good on you Mar for sticking to your principles

There are people on Beyond who waited hours upon hours on hold to save $30/month on their cellphone bills. What Mar does with his time is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

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This Mar is much better than the old one, entertaining, but just the right amount of crazy.

Nothing he has said has been outlandish, good on you Mar for sticking to your principles

There are people on Beyond who waited hours upon hours on hold to save $30/month on their cellphone bills. What Mar does with his time is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

True. I'd say just find an indy and skip dealers as they play so many games.

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I once got a letter in the mail from TD bank thanking me for being a customer for 15 years but they no longer want me as a customer because I'm too difficult to deal with. They told me if I didn't empty out my accounts within a month, they would send me a cheque. I actually got fired as a customer, that's impressive. I think if I wrote a book of memoirs it would be a best seller. I'd call it Book Of MeMars.

Now THATS impressive.

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Absolutely you should be working with an independent shop. Forget shop supplies, the rest of that invoice is atrocious and many of those items are absolutely not required.

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Absolutely you should be working with an independent shop. Forget shop supplies, the rest of that invoice is atrocious and many of those items are absolutely not required.

I love independent shops for that reason. Cash deals too!