Wal-Mart's Multipurpose Bicycle Tool a Rip

[Nomen Nescio]

A dog collided with my kid's bike and the rear wheel got thrown out of
shape. So, I went to Wal-Mart to buy a spoke wrench for a buck and all
they have is this made in china multipurpose pocket tool that does 18
different things and costs a whopping $12.89.

$12.89 for a made in china swiss knife for bikes and the spoke wrenches are
nothing more than stamped out open end wrenches. Wal-Mart is trying to rip
me off when all I need is one lousey wrench and all they sell is a cheap,
inferior, chinese made junk multitool. Thats adding insult to injury, pure
and simple.

A proper made spoke wrench should be a forged steel wrench with a flare-nut
wrench pattern that grips four corners of the spoke nut, not the two of an
open end.

I bet that $12.89 doesn't cost Wal-Mart two bucks, if that much. Its pure
profit for those greedy corporate right wingers if you are a sucker enough
to buy it.

I want to know how Wal-Mart can sell a complete high quality bike for $40
and then turn around to sell you this simple pocket junk tool for almost
1/3 as much as for that high quality bike? Their nuts.

[Luke]

Post by Nomen Nescio
I want to know how Wal-Mart can sell a complete high quality bike for $40
and then turn around to sell you this simple pocket junk tool for almost
1/3 as much as for that high quality bike? Their nuts.

They're not the only ones if you actually believe what you're buying
for $40 qualifies as 'high quality'.

Luke

[David L. Johnson]

Post by Nomen Nescio
$12.89 for a made in china swiss knife for bikes and the spoke wrenches are
nothing more than stamped out open end wrenches. Wal-Mart is trying to rip
me off when all I need is one lousey wrench and all they sell is a cheap,
inferior, chinese made junk multitool. Thats adding insult to injury, pure
and simple.

Serves you right for thinking you could get bike tools at Wall-Mart.

Post by Nomen Nescio
I want to know how Wal-Mart can sell a complete high quality bike for $40

It can't

[Werehatrack]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:30:21 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio

Post by Nomen Nescio
I want to know how Wal-Mart can sell a complete high quality bike for $40

Umm, not to put too fine a point on it, they don't. There are those
who would even quibble about the statement after the words
"high-quality" were removed. Wal-Mart's bikes are what can be
supplied for the amount that the low-price consumer wants to pay for a
bike. Some of them are of a level of technology similar to what was
considered good stuff forty to fifty years ago, but few are at the
level of quality that is low-end average for a bike shop.

This does not mean that they're utter crap. Many people buy and use
them with good results. But that doesn't mean that they're
high-quality bikes; lots of people drove Yugos, but it didn't make
them good cars.

Post by Nomen Nescio
and then turn around to sell you this simple pocket junk tool for almost
1/3 as much as for that high quality bike? Their nuts.

Well, multitools sold at bike shops sometimes have a questionable
level of utility, too. However, as I suspect that you're referring to
an item made by Bell, I will merely point out that Bell's reputation
for quality in bike accessories and parts is exceeded by nearly all of
their other known attributes. (The same goes for many of the
recognizable brands at Wal-Mart.)

There are times when the wise move is to grab a small good-quality
adjustable wrench. It appears that this would have been one of them.

[Ted Bennett]

Nomen Nescio <***@dizum.com> wrote:

[some words]


All of you who have replied so far to this troll, you have been had by
the master. The person who masquerades as Nomen Nescio (just think
about what his name means) does similar inflammatory postings all over
Usenet.

Lately he's been bothering people over at rec.motorcycles.tech, and now
he has begun with the same bullshit here as well.

Soon he will give authoritative advice which can sound good at first
gloss, but which is actually ill-informed and sometimes downright
dangerous.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Go away, "Nomen".

[Henry Sniadoch]

Post by Ted Bennett
[some words]
All of you who have replied so far to this troll, you have been had by
the master. The person who masquerades as Nomen Nescio (just think
about what his name means) does similar inflammatory postings all over
Usenet.
Lately he's been bothering people over at rec.motorcycles.tech, and now
he has begun with the same bullshit here as well.
Soon he will give authoritative advice which can sound good at first
gloss, but which is actually ill-informed and sometimes downright
dangerous.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Go away, "Nomen".

Nomen should be amen ....

[Dave Fawthrop]

Post by Henry Sniadoch

Post by Ted Bennett
[some words]
All of you who have replied so far to this troll, you have been had by
the master. The person who masquerades as Nomen Nescio (just think about
what his name means) does similar inflammatory postings all over Usenet.
Lately he's been bothering people over at rec.motorcycles.tech, and now
he has begun with the same bullshit here as well.
Soon he will give authoritative advice which can sound good at first
gloss, but which is actually ill-informed and sometimes downright
dangerous.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Go away, "Nomen".

Nomen should be amen ....

Abuse report filed with abuse-***@frontiernet.net for the violation of
spamming.

Dave



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