Mountain Home Rip-off

Friday, September 23, 2011

Well I decided to buy local as that is the thing now a days, I recently had a incident with one of our local business' that I think that the public should be made aware of. The business in question is Mountain Home Car Care on Air Base Road, I went in for a routine oil change. I have gone in for oil changes before and I realize that petroleum prices have sky rocketed recently but to charge 25 dollars a quart for syntec oil during a oil change is crazy. My last oil change was about 120 dollars total. This time it cost me 124.90 for just 5 quarts of oil, the whole oil change was 213.77. Now I am no expert on pricing for these things but I did some research by visiting a branch of O'Reilly auto part store and found that the same oil is about 9.99 a quart and the filter was about 10.99. So all in all they should have charged me about 106.86 after taxes. Now I think that our local boys need to rethink their business plan.