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Hi,
Just so you know, Michelin tires just went on sale yesterday with $70 off a set of four and later a cash card is mailed to you worth $60 ... if you use their Costco Visa Card to purchased them. They are pushing to get more members to get and use that card for transactions.
I just completed a trip to Denver Colorado recently and I hit lots of different Costco’s stores along the way. I’m afraid it could almost be a fetish. (:)
The story I get is Our tires sizes are available at some stores depending on the local area demand. It’s a decision done per each store manager to stock or not.
It’s an inventory hit and miss strategy that members must learn to do, I think?
I know this from a store that I can visit regularly during my wayward travels.
They had them in stock at that moment but they were already spoken for.
The clerk also said we sell a fair amount of them here but sorry we are out.
Then again, those could have been ordered, but yes they we’re stocked on the computers screen none the less. So it’s open to interpretation or maybe translation in my brain? (:)
During my ordering yesterday, I was told by the installer there, that Michelin was going to stop production of the 195-width only. If true, that newest... news!
In talking with him I was also thinking of getting some 195-60-15’s for some 940’s Orion alloy rims I picked up for (?) $200 or $250.
It was during this inquiry he told me that Costco has had such a good sales each month that their warehouses were nearly depleted. Mostly of what Michelin had for them in the USA is gone!
He has woman customer who went ahead and ordered a 15 inch size to get in on a sale price. This was despite them showing a ten week back order status. I wonder now if she missed this sale or maybe not? Details in that story I failed to ask about during a call back phone call. Took him five hours to call me back from my first call. They are busy!
He didn’t know if Michelin was having to go into production soon to make that size or was having them shipped in from their overseas warehouses. He thought ten weeks seem to be a lot!
In both sizes, we are talking about the “Defender” market name tires. They Must be a good seller for Michelin! I have two sets running on my fleet of six the last two years.
Years ago I stocked up with three sets of Michelin “X” Radials at one time. They are no longer made.
Back then, it was a free tire only sale.
Those Three sets were not something that they sneezed at because they were also carry-out.
Easy stats for those tire buster’s bosses!
I think it sped up my delivery. I got called in less than two days! The dozen must have made a near good load that much better to helped a lot. They said it happens with ordering time being fast.
I spent on my $293.00 for the set to carry home. They might be in Friday or the first of next week he said but the card is already charged, so they shipped, as supposedly it works that way on other things!
Doing my own tires at home, plus the $60 cash card, it will be like they are paying me to mount and balance them. They should, as I’m removing a defect with the counter weights and the labor, right? (:)
On the 15 inch set, I just might order them near the end of this great sale.
No rush. I’v had these Orion rims for three years or there abouts!
I have to get my budget wrinkle ironed out after paying out for ten days of hotel/motel stays around the Denver Navy reunion costs.
If a hot summer of spending money, is the same as burning money, then I need to rig up some wrist band held fire extinguishers!
I might be turning into a deal-arsonist.
(:-)
Phil
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