dude....

i ws actually looking at some wheels from them for my other car..definetly not now.

if nothing else, threaten a suit, that should get your money back

 

Check with lemon law or something like that in your area.. contact main office, BBB and anhone else you can.. Since they are messing with you just et on their nerves as well untill they will either give you the money back or brand new rims and new only..

 

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...709852#2709852

 

Sounds to me like its not AR that is dicking you around, its who ever your buying them from thats selling you used sets and thats why you are saving 60% off the cheapest deal you could find on the internet

 

But thats the thing...i bought them straight from the AR warehouse through my friends uncle who is an AR rep. that's why they were that "cheap"

 

They were that cheap because they were used. I am a whole seller for car audio and wheels and tires. American Racing does not have that high of a markup. At the price you paid that would be less then it cost them to make the wheels. Since it happend twice come on you were buying used wheels and they tried to tell you they were new to make you feel like you got the deal of a lifetime. You still got a good deal for 100 bucks a wheel used.

 

I paid $700 for the wheels i got. NOT $100 a wheel. Not sure where i posted that i payed $100 a wheel but it was either a typo or you misread it. And if they tell me they are "new", they better damn-well be new, no matter what kind of "deal" i'm getting.

I'm not sure where you buy your wheels but $700 for just wheels is NOT a good deal. It's about average.

 

Please allow me to quote your first post

"My friends uncle used to works at a car shop that is a retailer for American Racing. So he can get wheels for real cheap...very little mark up. I was looking at the “Casino” wheels. Online the cheapest I found them was $1200 for just the wheels. Well my friends uncle got me them for--- $550 ---and that included lug nuts, spacers, and locking lugs and key"

Price is spaced so you can see it. The spacers normally run about 25 bucks each for the steal. Im assumeing you got the good ones so that would be 100 bucks taken out of the $550 so we are now at $450 for just the wheels. A good set of lock lugs can run about 25 bucks so that puts as now at $425 for just the 4 wheels. Which is $106.25 each. Sorry I rounded it down by 6 bucks

The whole point Im trying to make is you were getting a hook up and trying to save a few bucks by going with a friend of a friend of someone who knows a freind you used to have a freind that you knew, and ya got what you paid for but you were expecting brand new off the show room floor quality striaght from the company but thats not who you ordered them from is it, you ordered them from a middle mans 2nd hand guy

If you would have just went to oh I dont know a Discount Tire or maybe a respectable wheel shop and paid the little extra they mark them up , you wouldnt have to deal with this. The wheels would have been brand new or the company would have been able to make it right because thats there job. If you want to save a few bucks and take short cuts in life sometimes this is what you have to deal with to save the few pennys in the end.

 

OK now i understand where the confusion is. I did not receive the Casinos because of the rest of what i posted. The wheels i got (that are pictured) and the wheels i wanted at the beginning (which are also posted) are different wheels. casino vs split. The casinos were a plain machine cut metal wheel and were approx. 100/wheel. but the Splits i ended up with are polished bare aluminum and were approx 180/wheel.

Either way i didn't get any kinda deal. Not for price or quality. And it's not a "friend of a friend of someone who knows a freind you used to have a freind that you knew". It was my best friends uncle which is basically like my uncle too. And he was just a reference. I personally paid cash at the AR warehouse. "My" uncle just did the price quoting and scheduled delivery