I am getting a kick out of the ones too clueless to get "tongue in cheek" about the Free Camping, because it is one of Good Sam's chief selling points for memberships and one of the things that Good Sam thinks makes it so great. This is the first time I have used that particular feature of the club lol.
It's not the shop nor the shop owner or mechanic's that are the problem. The owner and the guys who work here are all great. I would recommend them. As a shop. Not as a camping resort. The shop seems actually great for a shop, and doing what a shop does. It isn't meant to live in and I am living in it with three dogs and no air conditioner.
I also didn't portray the shop in it's worst possible light. I simply portrayed it in it's light. It is what it is, and what it is, is obnoxiously loud, uncomfortably hot and stuffy without working a/c which is exacerbating a health condition, stressing out my blind dog, and when they launch the dyno I also have to worry with the other dog having seizures. And we weren't supposed to have to be here this long in these conditions.
I also didn't complain about not being bumped to the front of the line in the work order. They have cranked out a BUNCH of vehicles since I have been here. (And I knew you know-it-all speculators would get it wrong. Thanks for proving me right. Again. I hope you aren't investment advisors.)
I was told by the shop, Thursday evening when I arrived (and they knew we were dealing with Good Sam) that they would get the claim submitted and the parts on Friday and I could be out of here on Saturday. I was ok with that, and my job was ok with that. My dogs were not ok with that, but I didn't think a day and a half would kill them.
But oops, I noticed I completely misspoke about ERS in my previous post. I meant "EWS".
I actually did have Good Sam ERS once upon a time, and when I had to use it (only once) they sent the service driver 200 miles from my location and it took 6 hours to get a service truck. I don't have Good Sam ERS any more, and they keep reminding me of that, as if I somehow forgot.
I tried one other time paying for a repair and waiting for reimbursement from the EWS, and ended up waiting a year for reimbursement. Do that again? No thank you. Especially not knowing just yet if the delay cost me a job, and extra veterinary bills, too. But if any of these elitists with more money than brains want to pay for it they are welcome to do so lol. My silence absolutely can be bought lol.
And actually if EWS would have just paid to replace the rooftop a/c unit when it died the first time instead of making me piece meal the fan motor, control box, capacitors and thermostat "because the compressor hadn't failed", (only everything else had!) the rooftop a/c unit might still be working now. Or possibly, at least, it might still be under warranty. But no. EWS wanted to go the penny smart, pound foolish cheap route, (which also took longer when it was also 100 degrees outside) so now we get to do it again. Did they think they could slap a band aid on it would last forever? What was that somebody said about karma? And then, when I paid to have it done their way instead of the common sense way, they gave me a year of grief about reimbursing me for it.
I absolutely knew the forum flies would thoroughly enjoy that last post, and you took the bait and did not disappoint. My point is fully and repeatedly being made that Good Sams members are mainly a bunch of followers and elitists who do not even know what GOOD SAM "supposedly" means. The presumed philosophy behind it. Not at the membership level, and possibly not at the service level within EWS. (But I already knew that.)
I didn't arrive at that conclusion just from this thread, or even just from this experience. Maybe, just maybe, it is because I am actually NOT a new member. But if this is the way Good Sam members would treat someone they perceive to be a new member, all I can do is shake my head. Y'all are a freaky sorry lot. I bet some of you are the ones that drive those two story Taj Mahals and look down your noses and block out the sun when you pull in. You should hear what people say about "you" lol. I would not stop to give a single one of you the time of day. If you are wearing a Good Sam sticker, I am going to wave and drive on by. Actually. No. I won't wave. I will look the other way and pretend not to see you and try not to laugh.
I did discover something very useful in this thread, though, and for that I want to thank you all. Apparently some of us will find no shortage of bait and shields in the zombie apocalypse. And they tag themselves with Good Sam stickers, so they are easy to find. ;)
And yes, do let's think about that word karma that is being bantied about so freely. Absolutely. Back at ya baby. ;)
Cheers!
Maxxi
