Tough lesson learned here, but apparently it’s not always a good idea to be preventative and get a damaged windshield fixed. It turns out if it is a tolerable windshield crack or chip it may be best just to let it go and wait until it just gets worse. Seems like weird advice, huh? Well, if your insurance company doesn’t have glass coverage or your glass coverage doesn’t cover you for a full windshield replacement (as in our case where we have a large deductible) we end up being responsible for a full windshield replacement that costs hundreds of dollars when we could have just dealt with a tiny chip. Why? Because of what the industry or company likes to call a “failed repair”. That’s funny. I thought when a company openly admitted that the thing they were supposed to do they failed at that they would be responsible for taking care of that customer. Oh no. We live in the land of “not my fault, no my problem, you can’t make me” business ethics. There’s so many people, so many customers waiting behind you to pay, that you will be literally pushed out of the way these days. This was predicted and it shouldn’t be a total surprise. But it’s crazy how we increasingly accept poor service, rude professionals, risks to ourselves and our families and all the while higher prices. All we can think to do to combat this terrible trend is to buy less overall. If we don’t buy as much stuff collectively we will hurt the companies. Sure we all need some things. The system has been designed to make us dependent on it. In fact, this same cycle is occurring across the world now in places where communities still haven’t fully adopted the capitalist mindset. These native groups are being told to move to new lands where they can’t grow their own food, therefor reducing their own self-sustainability, making them increasingly dependent on the system, and then selling it back to them in the form of a new slave-like relationship where the individual has reduced day in his cost of living. We can’t only fight this if we buy less. We no longer have much of a choice to buy nothing. We need some level of food, water, shelter and transport. But it stops there. These companies will get no more than that from us.
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Tough lesson learned here, but apparently it’s not always a good idea to be preventative and get a damaged windshield fixed. It turns out if it is a tolerable windshield crack or chip it may be best just to let it go and wait until it just gets worse. Seems like weird advice, huh? Well, if your insurance company doesn’t have glass coverage or your glass coverage doesn’t cover you for a full windshield replacement (as in our case where we have a large deductible) we end up being responsible for a full windshield replacement that costs hundreds of dollars when we could have just dealt with a tiny chip. Why? Because of what the industry or company likes to call a “failed repair”. That’s funny. I thought when a company openly admitted that the thing they were supposed to do they failed at that they would be responsible for taking care of that customer. Oh no. We live in the land of “not my fault, no my problem, you can’t make me” business ethics. There’s so many people, so many customers waiting behind you to pay, that you will be literally pushed out of the way these days. This was predicted and it shouldn’t be a total surprise. But it’s crazy how we increasingly accept poor service, rude professionals, risks to ourselves and our families and all the while higher prices. All we can think to do to combat this terrible trend is to buy less overall. If we don’t buy as much stuff collectively we will hurt the companies. Sure we all need some things. The system has been designed to make us dependent on it. In fact, this same cycle is occurring across the world now in places where communities still haven’t fully adopted the capitalist mindset. These native groups are being told to move to new lands where they can’t grow their own food, therefor reducing their own self-sustainability, making them increasingly dependent on the system, and then selling it back to them in the form of a new slave-like relationship where the individual has reduced day in his cost of living. We can’t only fight this if we buy less. We no longer have much of a choice to buy nothing. We need some level of food, water, shelter and transport. But it stops there. These companies will get no more than that from us.
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