Free food with windshield replacement!

[unbibium]

Every so often, you hear of glass companies who offer to pay your deductible, give you gift certificates, etc. if you let them replace your windshield.

This latest commercial I saw advertises that they give you 53 free meals at Hooters with a windshield replacement.

Why are windshield companies so desperate, and how do they make their money? Someone must be getting royally screwed: either the driver or the insurance company.

Comments

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

The insurance company. Which then turns around and screws the driver. They're not stupid.

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

We don't get those ads up around here. I guess it's because we don't live in the middle of the desert.

It'll rip the paint off your car
And wreck your windshield, too
I don't know how you people stand it
But I guess y'all do

--Frank Zappa, ValleyVillage of The Sun

Probably a mutual promotional deal.

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Hooters provides them the free meals in exchange for getting you accustomed to coming in every week to buy drinks, which is what they make their money on anyway, not the food.

Paying your deductible is a common trick around here for unpopular dentists. Gets 'em in trouble with the insurance companies all the time, too.

Beef!

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Out here in the Northwest, at least, a tire chain called Les Schwab Tires has an annual event in which if you purchase tires, possibly including razor blade tyres, you get free beef. Yes, Free Beef Days at Les Schwab is going on currently, in fact. A vegetarian friend offered me a portion of the 7.5 pound "party pack" of beef she got for buying two tires. When they tried to upsell a full set of tires in her, they said "You know, you can get a full 15 pounds of beef if you buy all 4 tires." Wow, it seems like I'm really getting a deal, that way.

Good timing, too; Heinz just came out with 3 new ketchups, and they're yummy! And nobody says anything when you buy 3.5 pounds of ketchup and nothing else.