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A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went
to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
You do need the parts. If you look around you can find them for less than
Best Buy sells them for, but Best Buy may not be willing to do the free install for you if you bring them someone else's parts. Ask them and see. "Rene Hawkes" wrote in message news:VE4Ob.138611$X%5.22489@pd7tw2no... I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!!
There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! TANSTAFL. There Are No Such Things As Free Lunch And "free gift" thing still leaves me wondering... aren't gifts always free??? |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck ina 1998 Buick Regal
SO they want to give you FREE installation but
charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what
do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing adeck in a 1998 Buick Regal
but it really isnt free at all!
If you buy a radio elsewhere for less are they still gonna install it for free? NO WAY! If you buy the kit and parts somewhere else are they gonna install if for free? NO WAY! In this world there typicly is NOTHING FREE!!! The marketing guys SAY FREE but it is NOT!! I worked at a company decades ago and we woudl run adds in the paper for free installation... The installers got paid commission for thier labor and did they like it when the company said FREE INSTALLATION!!??? Hell yeah they did! It drew in suckers from all over town thinking it was FREE but the company suckered them into paying more for all the other stuff!! SO the installers ended up making more money than normal NOT LESS!! We loved it !! What sucks is now is that I work for a much more legit car audio shoppe, we dont play the games, we just do good quality work for a fair price.. Customers ask if we have FREE installs and we say NO... Then they run right down the street to Best buy and pay them MORE than they would be paying us for what would probably be a better install... mayhemkrew wrote: that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing adeck in a 1998 Buick Regal
what about the guys in the mall Kiosks that chase after
you when you walk by offering you a FREE PHONE!! NOTTT!! Peter wrote: it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! TANSTAFL. There Are No Such Things As Free Lunch And "free gift" thing still leaves me wondering... aren't gifts always free??? |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
Kind of like shaving razors. You can get the handle and the first
blade or two for next to nothing, but then they gig you on the blade refills. Inkjet printers come to mind, too. You can buy a nice HP printer for $75, but a high-capacity black ink cartridge is $20-30, and you're buying those for the life of the printer. Scott On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:35:08 GMT, Eddie Runner wrote: what about the guys in the mall Kiosks that chase after you when you walk by offering you a FREE PHONE!! NOTTT!! Peter wrote: it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! TANSTAFL. There Are No Such Things As Free Lunch And "free gift" thing still leaves me wondering... aren't gifts always free??? |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing adeck in a 1998 Buick Regal
no scott, its not like that at all.
Razors and inkjets dont say FREE all over them!! Scott Gardner wrote: Kind of like shaving razors. You can get the handle and the first blade or two for next to nothing, but then they gig you on the blade refills. Inkjet printers come to mind, too. You can buy a nice HP printer for $75, but a high-capacity black ink cartridge is $20-30, and you're buying those for the life of the printer. Scott On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:35:08 GMT, Eddie Runner wrote: what about the guys in the mall Kiosks that chase after you when you walk by offering you a FREE PHONE!! NOTTT!! Peter wrote: it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! TANSTAFL. There Are No Such Things As Free Lunch And "free gift" thing still leaves me wondering... aren't gifts always free??? |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a
Razors and inkjets dont say FREE all over them!!
On my 18th birthday I got a package from Gillette that had one of those Mach 3 razors in it, and some gel and ****....Didn't take me long to figure out how they could afford to give me such a lovely birthday present. Those refill razors are damned expensive. Nick |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a
Now that WAS FREE!
But they are hoping that the free give away makes you like the product enough to buy it later so they can make thier money back... I dont mind deals like that at all.. In fact I like the mach 3, even though the refills are really expansive and the blades dont seem to last very long... What I dont like is FREE installations, because there is nothing free about them... With the razor deal you get a free package and have no obligation to buy... (its thier risk) With best buys free installs they are just plain NOT FREE! YOU MUST BUY THIER INFLATED PARTS before they give you the supposed FREE installation... There is nothing free about it at all... If you could walk in there with your own headunit and your own parts and get a FREE install and walk away without paying then that WOULD BE FREE ... but of course they dont let you do that do they?? TheBIessedDead wrote: Razors and inkjets dont say FREE all over them!! On my 18th birthday I got a package from Gillette that had one of those Mach 3 razors in it, and some gel and ****....Didn't take me long to figure out how they could afford to give me such a lovely birthday present. Those refill razors are damned expensive. Nick |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
Granted kits and harness are expenisve (KITS-$16.99, HARNESSES, 16.99, ANT.
ADAPTORS $10.99) but we only use our parts for warranty purposes. It's the whole supply and demand thing. The more people demand them, the higher the costs go. When I started in the bay in 96, kits were $9.99 and labor for a head unit was $29.99. Now labor is $47. It's an amazing market, but people still pay it cause they demand it. And when we have free labor, it is free labor. We don't raise the prices of the units to compensate and that is the truth. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... but it really isnt free at all! If you buy a radio elsewhere for less are they still gonna install it for free? NO WAY! If you buy the kit and parts somewhere else are they gonna install if for free? NO WAY! In this world there typicly is NOTHING FREE!!! The marketing guys SAY FREE but it is NOT!! I worked at a company decades ago and we woudl run adds in the paper for free installation... The installers got paid commission for thier labor and did they like it when the company said FREE INSTALLATION!!??? Hell yeah they did! It drew in suckers from all over town thinking it was FREE but the company suckered them into paying more for all the other stuff!! SO the installers ended up making more money than normal NOT LESS!! We loved it !! What sucks is now is that I work for a much more legit car audio shoppe, we dont play the games, we just do good quality work for a fair price.. Customers ask if we have FREE installs and we say NO... Then they run right down the street to Best buy and pay them MORE than they would be paying us for what would probably be a better install... mayhemkrew wrote: that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
And, a side note, if people come in with the same exact parts as us, and
bought a headunit from us during free install, yes I would use their parts and not charge them anything. And it's not like we use off the wall parts, we use the standard schosche, metra, and american internation parts everybody uses. "mayhemkrew" wrote in message news:EnoOb.90298$8H.134783@attbi_s03... Granted kits and harness are expenisve (KITS-$16.99, HARNESSES, 16.99, ANT. ADAPTORS $10.99) but we only use our parts for warranty purposes. It's the whole supply and demand thing. The more people demand them, the higher the costs go. When I started in the bay in 96, kits were $9.99 and labor for a head unit was $29.99. Now labor is $47. It's an amazing market, but people still pay it cause they demand it. And when we have free labor, it is free labor. We don't raise the prices of the units to compensate and that is the truth. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... but it really isnt free at all! If you buy a radio elsewhere for less are they still gonna install it for free? NO WAY! If you buy the kit and parts somewhere else are they gonna install if for free? NO WAY! In this world there typicly is NOTHING FREE!!! The marketing guys SAY FREE but it is NOT!! I worked at a company decades ago and we woudl run adds in the paper for free installation... The installers got paid commission for thier labor and did they like it when the company said FREE INSTALLATION!!??? Hell yeah they did! It drew in suckers from all over town thinking it was FREE but the company suckered them into paying more for all the other stuff!! SO the installers ended up making more money than normal NOT LESS!! We loved it !! What sucks is now is that I work for a much more legit car audio shoppe, we dont play the games, we just do good quality work for a fair price.. Customers ask if we have FREE installs and we say NO... Then they run right down the street to Best buy and pay them MORE than they would be paying us for what would probably be a better install... mayhemkrew wrote: that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
That cheap? OK, where would I find the kit, harness, and antenna adapter for
roughly that price? "mayhemkrew" wrote in message news:7ZdOb.73666$sv6.158052@attbi_s52... that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing adeck in a 1998 Buick Regal
Depending on exactly what kind of car they are for
I would be willing to sell them to you for those prices!! I could have also saved the original poster about $50 on that Pioneer 1600 car stereo! Im not a salesman and I dont typicly SPAM RAC with anything we well in the store but you did ask.... Eddie Runner Rene Hawkes wrote: That cheap? OK, where would I find the kit, harness, and antenna adapter for roughly that price? "mayhemkrew" wrote in message news:7ZdOb.73666$sv6.158052@attbi_s52... that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing a deck in a 1998 Buick Regal
Well the deck cost was in canadian dollars, so I think that's were the
difference was. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... Depending on exactly what kind of car they are for I would be willing to sell them to you for those prices!! I could have also saved the original poster about $50 on that Pioneer 1600 car stereo! Im not a salesman and I dont typicly SPAM RAC with anything we well in the store but you did ask.... Eddie Runner Rene Hawkes wrote: That cheap? OK, where would I find the kit, harness, and antenna adapter for roughly that price? "mayhemkrew" wrote in message news:7ZdOb.73666$sv6.158052@attbi_s52... that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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FREE INSTALLATION!!! NOT !!! A question about installing adeck in a 1998 Buick Regal
Oh, Canadian dollars?
Well that makes the comparison kind of a jerk off then.... mayhemkrew wrote: Well the deck cost was in canadian dollars, so I think that's were the difference was. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... Depending on exactly what kind of car they are for I would be willing to sell them to you for those prices!! I could have also saved the original poster about $50 on that Pioneer 1600 car stereo! Im not a salesman and I dont typicly SPAM RAC with anything we well in the store but you did ask.... Eddie Runner Rene Hawkes wrote: That cheap? OK, where would I find the kit, harness, and antenna adapter for roughly that price? "mayhemkrew" wrote in message news:7ZdOb.73666$sv6.158052@attbi_s52... that's were people misread the ad...it's says free installation labor. what do you think. People also misread this, We'll Install it today or the labor is free. what do you think. "Eddie Runner" wrote in message ... SO they want to give you FREE installation but charge you $60!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha The kit ought to be around $9 the wire harness $10 and the antenna adapter about $7 it cracks me up when folks fall for FREE INSTALLATION!! There really isnt such a thing!! Its a SCAM!! Eddie Runner (installin since 1974) Rene Hawkes wrote: I plan to be replacing the awful stock stereo in my 98 Buick Regal. I went to Best Buy the other day and decided to replace it with the Pioneer DEH-1600 ($200), which I can get installed for free. at the store. The problem with this is that I have to pay an extra $60 or so for a install kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter. The guy there was pretty serious when he said I needed this. Do I really need this all this extra stuff, or can I forgo some of it? I did some mesuring, and I'm sure I can't fit the new deck in the car dash, since the dash is about twice as wide as the deck. All of this is in canadian dollars, by the way. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. |
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