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Just checked Your Mechanic. $40 for an oil change? no thanks. Not worth the convenience. It will fail at these prices.

• cwilson 14y ago
  Have you ever taken an Uber? People are paying double the cost of a regular cab and Uber is doing extremely well. People will pay for convenience. Personally, I've gone way over the time in which I should have changed my oil dozens of times simply because it's inconvenient and I have better things to do. I'm also not even sure what an average oil change costs? Without that knowledge, because I haven't done it often enough to know, $40 actually seems perfectly reasonable.
• ebiester 14y ago
  I'll pay it. I don't have to take my car to a mechanic? That saves me an hour. The extra 10 dollars is an acceptable convenience charge. (Now, I know you think, everyone can just change their own oil! But for those of us who are apartment dwellers without space for all of the tools? We're a bit stuck. That's not counting the places where we aren't allowed to change our own oil -- I'm not sure how Your Mechanic will work around this. I'm more worried they won't be able to get the density required to make this worthwhile in the first place.
• artag 14y ago
  yea, it is really hard to compete on oil change price. 80% of our services are price competitive (even up to 30% less expensive).
• ramanujan 14y ago
  How much are a few hours of your time worth? Even a one hour savings easily saves $40. Absolutely worth it for the convenience, would shell that out in a second if someone would come by and fix it while I coded.
• branchan 14y ago
  Tell us, how much do you pay for an oil change and around how much do you get paid per hour?