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Tire shops do this by siping your tires and then offering you a refund if you complain that you never wanted it. But they do it without asking to everyone and then charge $60 hoping nobody notices.


Siping?


Cutting into a tire to improve traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siping_(rubber)


Just from the description, that sounds like a case could be made for willful property damage if they did it without authorisation.


Unbelievably brazen to not bother trying to push an upsell, and just charge it without authorisation. Crazy




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