Getting your oil changed is expensive. Today I paid almost $60.00 for the privilege. What happened? I remember getting oil changes for around $20.00, and that can't have been that long ago. I mean sure, the price has gone up over the years, but it seems like it has jumped quite a bit in the last year. Looking at my invoice, there is no filter/used oil dispoasal fee. I did rather rashly allow the place to top off my anti-freeze, which cost me $10.00, but that only drops the bill down to $50.00.
On the plus side, though, the place I went (and where I always go: Jiffy Lube) was a lot less annoying than they usually are. They used to be called the Grease Spot ('til they got bought out some years ago). Back then you could drive your own car into the bay, and they didn't clobber you with a long, pointless spiel about 'signature service'. Then some suit at Jiffy Lube Corporate must have decided a spiel would, I don't know, make the typical customer feel better about the place or something. From the word go I pegged it as useless sloganeering (a practice I abhor).
Today, there was no spiel. The guy who met me didn't ask if I wanted the 'Signature Service' just if I wanted an oil change. Also, he hardly tried to up-sell on me at all. If they hadn't been out of coffee it would have been a perfect visit.
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Wow! I paid $24.84 at the local Cenex station the last time I had the oil changed on my vehicle. Did Jiffy Lube use synthetic oil? I know that's more expensive than the stuff they have in barrels, but I don't know if it costs twice as much.
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