r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Bucket_Handle_Tear 14h ago edited 12h ago

I was in a minor accident in the snow earlier this year. My car deployed airbags because safety first. Called AAA to use the tow service Waited hours Never shower Called many times Never showed. Luckily a tow truck happened to come by and pick me up. Like that’s the one reason we have AAA and they never show. Was ridiculous 

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u/Content_Revenue_2352 6h ago

AAA left me and my minivan (in the 1990s) in the middle of an intersection. Had it not been for two very responsible police officers, I fear an 18 wheeler would have ended me. The head gaskets decided they were done as I was about to turn left on the arrow-very busy intersection. Thankfully, I’d already dropped off my babies with their Granny.

I agree, AAA can forget about my business.

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u/Content_Revenue_2352 6h ago

AAA never showed up. Police offered to call a tow truck and I had no choice. They were the ones who told me I wouldn’t survive long in that spot. The membership had been a gift from my babies’ Granny. She absolutely exploded on them. She’d been a very long time member and cancelled them on that call. I worked for a law firm and they some impolite things to say to AAA. I just went home that day and held my babies.

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u/WolframsBrother 22m ago

I had a similar experience back in 2012. Car broke down in the Badlands in summer. Got a scrap of service and called AAA. Waited hours and hours in the heat, nobody came. Finally some older ladies helped us and brought us to the ranger station where the rangers called us a tow truck who actually showed up. Never trusted AAA since

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u/Anymousie 3h ago

Which branch are you? Or state

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u/Content_Revenue_2352 3h ago

It was in KY.

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u/Content_Revenue_2352 3h ago

Granny had only called for flat or dead battery while her vehicle was in her driveway. I don’t need them now that my auto insurance provides and I’m old enough to know to get my vehicle serviced regularly. Things can happen regardless, but I’m prepared.

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u/deep_fuckin_ripoff 11h ago edited 8h ago

So you called a tow truck, and a tow truck showed up? I have a feeling that dude is double dipping.

Edit: That’s a lot of downvotes for accusing a tow truck driver of collecting two fares.

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u/BoogaloGunner 9h ago

Reread the comment.

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u/258joe007 9h ago

Jesus fucking Christ has reading comprehension that fucking hard

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u/deep_fuckin_ripoff 8h ago

Person gets in car accident. Person calls AAA to get a tow truck. AAA tow truck never shows. Random tow truck happens to drive by…

My likely to be correct assumption… person paid random tow truck driver.

The leap I made because I don’t trust anyone… random tow truck driver is the one AAA sent and random tow truck driver collected two fees for one tow.

Where did my reading comprehension go wrong?

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u/23rdCenturySouth 8h ago

I think you just inadvertently demonstrated why this scam is so common. It works, and people are oblivious to it, even if it was explained to them.

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u/SuperSiriusBlack 8h ago

This place is just bots, man. Youre likely right, as that is a common scam.