Chipio

I was so happy to get this job at first. They said I was going to make a lot of money and I am good with people so I thought, *** yeah!

I started in the middle of their pay period and they told me they hold a check back. They siad they give a base pay of $300 a week. 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week but it was so easy that I need not worry with base pay, that I would make a lot just off of commission pay. I worked 3-days and they had to leave to another state to open another event, this worried me.

They had 4 people in a *** truck that were in a holtel with only TWO beds. Well, they did come back with my 3-day check of $160 for 30 hours! So I said ok, maybe I need to step it up. So I went back to work and worked 3 more days.

It's very HOT in Florida and people were very MAD that they can't even pump their gas without being harassed by us. Well over 250 I asked to repair their chips, I got 3! I did the math, it was $5 a hour they are paying to line their pockets!

I feel used and beatin from the sun. I should have known better..

Oh and they said I won't get a check this week because they left me hanging while they went to another state. So, it would have been 5 weeks of work for only two checks worth around a $150.

That was another tip I was getting screwed! I am burned from the sun and can't hardly lay in bed at night. I was doing work when so insurance companies wouldn't even pay me for and they boss told me, it happens! I can't live off that!

They are using people. They make what they can in one town and leave and don't care who they screw over!

The company hires young inexperienced sales reps and puts them in the field the first day. I was one of them.

They used me for 3 weeks and when it came time to get paid, there was always a difference in the number of chips I fixed to the number they paid me. I have been waiting now for 2 weeks and today they told me that my check did not come in and they have to file a "missing Chip report" that takes 2 to 4 weeks. We all know that is BS. How many unsuspecting young adults looking for a job have they ripped off.

I filled 68 chips and have been paid for 40 so far. Don't go to work for this rip off *** You will work like a slave and then not get paid,

The "chipios" were running their side show today (the 4th of July no less!!!) at the local Sam's Club here in suburban Minneapolis. I had pulled into the newly added gas station to fill up my 2012 Chevy Cruze.

While I am filling up, and having some trouble with the pump reading my "older" Sam's Club Card, a female 20-something approaches the front of my vehicle and starts to wash the windshield with a gas-station type squeegee, even though I told her that it really did not need washing, as I had just finished washing and drying the car by hand earlier that morning. I was half distracted by station manager during this time, who was trying to get my card to work in the pump.... which he did, actually. Of course the girl found a "chip" on the passenger side of my windshield, way down low, very close to where the wiper blade would rest.

The chip was more of a small nick with a couple of 1 mm hairline cracks extending from opposite sides of the nick. I told her that I had warranty coverage from my Chevy Dealer, and that I would bring the problem to their attention, and that no, I did not want them to attempt to repair it. Well.... aside from all that has been said by others regarding the fraudulent nature of their repair procedure, what has got me even more steamed is the possibility that the girl (rep) could have actually put the nick into my windshield using some sort of easily concealed, perhaps spring-loaded, diamond-point or steel punch of some sort.

It seems to me that this would not be that difficult to do to some carefully selected prospects, who might fit their marketing profile. When I got back into my car to leave, the nick was quite visible when the sunlight hit it just right, and I am sure that I would have noticed it from either side of the glass, being a detail-oriented person careful to notice any imperfections in my like-new car. This nick, on closer examination, seemed too perfect, too deep and too small in diameter to have been made by the typical piece of gravel or stone one might have picked up while driving on the freeway, or 50mph arterial street. One usually notices the sound of such an impact as well, in my opinion.

Hard to prove malfeasance on their part I would suppose.

Any similar experiences out there??? Sounds like the Attorney General's Office needs to shut this operation down!!!

Banjo im sure sam's club has camera's. If a company gets a cotract with sams club dont you think they would of caught on to those ethics?

How can a chip be caused by a squeegie? If she put that chip there would it make a noise? There are people all over those gas stations im sure it would be noticed, you think? Have you diven on any major high way in any city america?

Rocks litter every road. For any autoglass company to put chips in windshields is absurd. If they are at sams they probably are not a fly by night? Sams club isnt hurting with this economy!!!

They wouldnt allow us valued members to be miss treated. If chipio condoned putting damage in windows they wouldnt have been around very long and could never be at sams club. If a company needed to do those types of sales they surely wouldn't be in business long. :?

Rocks fly every day and most people look through their windshields not at them! Thanks auto

I hate this company. But I doubt they damaged your windshield.

I also do WSR, but I don't believe in or participate in aggressive marketing. Those sales reps, which is what they are--not glass technicians, see enough damaged glass that they wouldn't need to risk damaging a customer's car.

You know how *** you sound, a spring loaded dimond tip of some sort? What kind of b.s.

are you feeding yourself. Detail oriented or not ppl over look things, so being so disrespectful

No point in denying the truth, we do offer a service for our customers. But before were so quick to bash the things we don't know anything about let me educate you.

Call your insurance company and ask them to educate you on windshield repair. Its a piece of safety equipment, designed to sustain the weight of the roof of your car in the event of a rollover. when, over time, damage occurs to your windshield it slowly reduces the structural integrity of your windshield. our repairs restore structural integrity.

Not make your windshield all shiny and perfect again, and thats exactly what we tell our customers. Structural vs. cosmetic. Your insurance company WILL tell you: In the event that the crack or chip (there is a difference people) is under 6 inches they would RATHER you get it repaired.

In most states if the repair is not good enough you can switch to a replacement. It saves them money to have your windshield REPAIRED rather than REPLACED. We DO NOT begin work until the customer has agreed that they would like the work done by our shop to the insurance company. Sooo.

That was on you. Honestly...what do you think a glass shop does? THey will push you to replace the whole thing(which can also negatively affect your monthly premium)...oh. wait.

Isnt that why Safeflite is in a class action lawsuit? Because they pushed all their customers to replace their windshield? And were the bad guys? Get over yourselves.

Before you forget - We actually are some insurance companies preferred glass shops.

Let me make a long story short. No company is perfect, and neither are the employees that work there. The employees that we have found not adhering to our business practices are fired on the spot. We offer the service if you like it, and if you don't, then you don't.

Period. We do NOT forge signatures, do NOT force customers into anything they don't want to do, and I've very rarely EVER seen someone who was dissatisfied with their repair. If they were, we personally drove out to their house to fix it until they were satisfied. Funny how those positive comments never make it up on websites like these eh?

Anyway - this probably isn't going anywhere.

Who wants to listen to a scam artist, right? you'll read this with an air of cynicism, and your nose upturned to the wind like your *** doesn't stink, and undoubtedly find numerous little barbs to throw or witty little comments to attempts to make me feel bad about my profession... problem is guys... on a website devoted to pessimists, i have to tell you bad news.

For every one bad comment i've read on this website, I've had a hundred heartfelt thank you's. For every person that feels like they have gotten scammed, i've had ten sweet, kindhearted elderly ladies drop off cookies "just to say thank you again" You can bash our work all day if you feel you've been taken advantage of, and i truly, truly do apologize, that was never our intent, but don't ever call my company a scam. If were legitimate enough to secure contracts to do business with fortune 5 companies (beating out THOUSANDS of other shops in the process) Im prettttty sure were *** something right. If theres one bad sour faced person with a chip on his shoulder about how he hates his life and the people who come in it and a thousand people happy with the services we provide...

Kick rocks. Watch the *** sunrise.

Cheer the *** up. Im sorry you hate your life enough to blog about a bad experience in a gas station.

To the "Chipio Rep": For someone who is trying to represent a company, you are a terrible representative. In no way, shape, or form should you portray yourself as you have in your long, arduous, insulting, solecistic response to "mneumann".

Secondly, you have very rarely EVER seen a dissatisfied customer? Just Google "Chipio Windshield Repair" and read the laundry-list of complaints about your company.

But my point is not solely to bash the Chipio Rep, it is also to bash the company as a whole. Here at Fort Hood the Chipio employees run rampant through the gas stations offering to inspect your windshields. The only people who get suckered are the new Soldiers who just got out of high school and the unknowing kind-hearted elderly who are visiting their grandchildren.

The entire process of the windshield inspection/bait you into purchasing anything from their company is, without a doubt, throwing money down a toilet. Why would I trust the word of someone who walks up to me randomly at a gas station over that of my auto mechanic? I wouldn't.

Lastly, the company is parasitic in nature... essentially the Jehovah's Witnesses of gas stations. The whole process of being approached and convinced to do something that you had no intentions of doing at that moment in time is off-putting, as it should be. Your gut instinct should tell you not to trust a random stranger trying to get you to purchase something, because they are out for themselves or trying to earn money for a shady company any way possible.

Side Note: I went to fill up my tank at one of the gas stations here on Fort Hood last week. A cute new Chipio employee who I had never seen around here before approached me and asked if she could inspect my windshield. I was already shaking my head "no" before she opened her mouth. My instant rudeness and arrogance caused her to talk to me for 10 minutes... about the usual stuff that an employee would ask a customer: how I have a great smile, how SHE thinks SHE is pretty, blah blah blah. Anyways, I ended up having sex with her that night. What does this have to do with the company at all you ask? Nothing, except sort of bringing me back to my original point to the Chipio Rep, that:

1. Chipio employees are typically unprofessional, semi-trained ***-artists.

2. That girl was easy.

and 3. *** finish first.

At first I thought you were a legitament RESPECTABLE defender of our country just voicing their opinion. However upon reading your whole statement I no longer respect the fact your a veteran and your credibility.

What does sleeping with someone have to do about finding a websight that only voice negatives. The only reason you find more negatives on the internet is because those positive ppl are to busy enjoying their lives, not crying and moaning to a computer screen because they don't like to interact with people