Thread: What's the Deal with the Owners/Dealers?

Well, the CTers certainly don't like it when people call them on their misrepresentations.

For instance, there are lots of complaints on Facebook about their 'Promo' cards (so-called in order to have an expiry date ... in 7 days!

The misrepresentation is that it is a 'gift' and therefore 'free'.

But of course, you have to spend $200 to get it, so it's not a free, and not a gift at all!

When a consumer pointed this out, the CTer didn't like it much:

Originally Posted by Sangria5

"nothing is free"??? Tough expectations for any retailer to meet.

Indeed, a tough expectation that CT created when they paid Facebook to Spam consumers.

And then when CT's deception is exposed, how do CTers react?

They try to 'shoot the messenger', of course!

LMAO!

What a crazy bunch, these CTers are!

oh you naughty boy h8r how dare you post negative stuff on their facebook page.....LMFAO....funny how they can do it on here and not even get their postings deleted....they really dont like people saying how they really feel about their horrible stores.

Interesting report on a conversation with an Owner/Dealer:


David B.: So I went to Canadian tire on Smythe St in Fredericton today. I'm getting so frustrated with Canadian tire advertising sales and never having stock. My wife even went before xmas to buy me a tool set that was advertised for the next day... there wasn't any in stock. The store clerks even told me that the flyers are done up way ahead of time so the store could order enough product if they wanted. I don't like rain checks... today I went in to get a air tool kit that was on sale today and get the above promo card as well.... guess what, they didn't have any and I was there 1hr after the store opened.. I got a rain cheque but it doesn't qualify me for the promo card. Craftsman tools are starting to look better every day.... I have even written Canadian tire customer service before and no one has ever gotten back to me. In fact the owner of this store lives at the end of my street and laughs when I tell him my stories and says he doesn't make money when I buy things on sale... great customer service... Home Depot and Sears are looking like my new tool places... I just picked up a 1200.00 snowblower today from Home depot because of Canadian tires poor customer service and never having any stock.

Here we have the CT Owner's philosophy, simply stated:

Originally Posted by Sangria5

Many many dissatisfied customers at every retailer for any number of reasons, but they all continue on.

There you have it, folks.

The Crappy People think it's OK to treat customers like dirt, because their Crappy stores will "continue on" regardless.

Gee, how did that work out for Zellers? Eatons? Even Bargain Harolds? LMAO!

OK, I've decided to tackle this very strange accusation:

Originally Posted by Owner 1

Really? That's all you've got left. Don't feed the troll. A term you are very familiar with given the ongoing Facebook antics of using fake profiles to attack people on ct fb page. Lol. Hypocrit

Anybody who's interested, can have a look at CT's facebook page at www.facebook.com/canadiantire

You are invited to look around and see who it is that is "attacking" customers.

You will quickly see that the only "attacks" and "antics" are being perpetrated by the CT Defenders, including some CT staff, who eagerly go after anyone who dares to speak the truth about this horrible company.

Presuambly this is just self-interest, like we see on this very web site, where the people who gain from the exploitation of innocent consumers, seek to hide the truth about their own "antics", day in and day out.

Nice job, greedy Owner/Moaners!

its funny how they never really seem to address the actual issues presented to them.instead they try to bring up examples of other bad service by other companies in order to justify their pathetic enterprise.in case you didnt know the term,its called 'passing the buck'.
always someone elses fault.and this attitude is being borne out daily in their nasty stores.obviously they will never learn.

After some reflection, I wonder if some of the comments by the CTers are 'off-topic', not because they want to be disruptive, but because they are just too lazy to post more than one comment at a time.

It seems that that poke around on the various threads, then pick one & post a lot of nonsense, all in one post.

It would be more logical for them to make their false claims about other retailers in the "Other Retailers" thread, and misrepresentations about customer complaints about Facebook in the Facebook thread, and so on.

So, we might be mis-labelling them as "off-topic" when actually they are simply "lazy".

Either way, though, I find their posts to be generally without merit or value, and designed simply to insult consumers.

For that reason alone, I think they should be largely ignored, no matter how much the whine.

Unless, of course, they come up with some useful ideas. In such cases, I think these comments should be moved to the proper thread, and debated there.

But when it's just a lot of nonsense and BS (like these gripes about what some consumers are allegedly posting on CT's Facebook page), it is pretty safe to ignore.

ok new thread. canadian tires sucks at their own management trying to moan on this forum.please post all comments here....