growler
Senior Member
- Location
- Atlanta,GA
If you have an older vehicle and take it in for service do they try to upsell you all the latest safety standards that are installed on new cars?
An auto repair shop will normally stay away from doing custom work. Installing an air bag on an older car would be custom work. But for the standard proceedures that are offered by the repair shop they will try to sell as many of these as possible. Belts, hoses, wiper blades, batteries or if it's a dealer they just try to sell a whole new car.
An upsell for a house can be as little as a GFCI receptacle for a bathroom and not a complete rewire. Or even to check and replace bad smoke detectors. This could easily by compared to an auto repair shop that offers to replace wiper blades.