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The speaker had a bad experience at O'Reilly's store when they bought a rebuilt starter that didn't work. Despite the counter man and manager testing it and saying it worked, the speaker, who has 30 years of mechanic experience, insisted it was faulty. After arguing, they finally got a replacement that worked. This experience led them to never return to that store again. They mention that personal experiences can vary, as some people hate auto parts stores based on bad experiences with the staff. I checked out to see who's got the best price, those things are always changing. I had to put a starter on a 350 V8 Chevy pickup truck, it was bad. And that's not to say I didn't mow the lawn, so the nearest place was an O'Reilly's store. So I take the starter off, bring it in, say give me a new starter, they gave me a rebuilt starter, I put it on, it didn't work. So I went back to the store and said you sold me a bum starter. So they got out a battery and drummer cables and hooked it up to the starter on the table and it went whoo and it was spinning and they said oh no, look this thing works. Well that was the counter man, I said look it's a bad starter, he said give me your manager. So the manager comes out and does the same test and says well look it works. And I said, I've been a mechanic for a long time, now it was only 30 years, not 51 but still, 30 years of experience is a reasonable amount. He's a noggin. Okay, you hooked up a battery to the starter sitting on the table here and it spins. So it spins in the air, there's no resistance, it's just spinning in the air. Well after about 20 minutes of arguing back and forth, he finally gives me another starter, it worked and a customer paid me and I went away. But let me tell you, that's the last time I ever went to that particular store. And just experience can differ in different areas. I've met people that absolutely hate autosomes because they had a bad experience with people working there. It can come both ways. In my own personal experience, I had the worst one at O'Reilly Auto Parts stores. When I was young, the auto parts stores were often manned by ex-mechanics that hated it, they had their arms broken or...