First of all, I'd like to thank Scramble for alerting the forum to this DTD tire offer. I used it to order four 265/70-16 Cooper Discoverer AT/3's for my '99 Runner. Everything went super-smoothly, and I thought I'd give a short report on what happened.
I'm in California. I ordered my tires on March 4. The total 'list' price was $536, then with the $100 discounted netted a total of $436 charged to my Paypal CC. Since DTD is in Arizona, buying thru them saved me the +8% CA sales tax I would have paid if I'd bought locally. (Or from Amazon. On Amazon, those tires were priced at $143.95, with free Prime shipping, but the CA sales tax would have applied.)
The UPS truck pulled up and delivered the tires on March 9; the driver also commented how a lot of people were buying tires online.
Part of the reason I purchased from DTD is because I wanted to buy from a 'volume' dealer, and avoid the possibility that I'd be shipped tires that may have been sitting on a shelf for several years. The tires I received are dated as '4215', which I believe they were manufactured in the 42nd week of 2015, or sometime around October. That qualifies as 'fresh' to me.
On the DTD website, they listed America's Tire as their official installers. It just so happens that we have an AT in my town, so I gave them a call. I'd never worked with them before, but when I called I found out that AT and DTD are sister companies. That meant that even though I was hauling in the tires myself, I would get the same installation price as if I had bought them from AT.
I made an appointment, and had the tires installed on March 10. Total price was $74.77, which included installation, new valves, balancing, and old tire disposal.
As I sat in the waiting room, I saw that making an appointment is the way to go. When walk-ins entered the store, they were told that appointments had priority and they'd be fitted into the schedule when slots became available. I also overheard several phone calls with people apparently asking about specific tires. Those tires were almost always 'out of stock', which made me glad I'd ordered exactly the tires I'd wanted online, and then brought those tires in for installation.
All in all, the entire process went absolutely smoothly. No problem with the tires, or DTD, or ebay. And, AT seemed to be a good company to work with.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
When I first placed my tire order, I was only thinking in terms of the $100 rebate and getting the Coopers. Once I'd placed that order, I found myself at the Cooper company website looking for tire pressure info -- where I saw that Cooper itself was offering what appeared to be an ADDITIONAL $70 rebate.
Why not give it a try?
So, I filled out the forms, and submitted the rebate online along with a scan of the receipt I'd received with the tires from DTD. For the last few days, I've been going back to the site to check on the rebate status, and was only seeing 'approval awaiting verification'. Over the years I've had enough problems with rebates to be wary of the whole process, but still it looked like everything was on track for the $70.
Then today March 14, on techbargains.com, I saw a listing for what looked like the same DTD $100 discount, but with some added links to PDF forms which stated they needed to be mailed in to qualify for the rebate. (Link to the TB listing:
eBay Coupon Code $100 off Discount Tires Direct Orders $400+ - Techbargains) This got my attention, and since at the bottom of the downloaded PDF was a phone number (1-844-684-7218), I picked up the phone and dialed. The number connects with the company handling the rebate, not Cooper Tire itself. When I got ahold of the rep, she confirmed that since I had submitted online, that I did NOT also need to mail in any additional forms. I then gave her the confirmation number I'd received when I submitted online, she looked it up on her computer, and after a few seconds she said everything was in order and approved my $70 rebate. She said it would take 6 - 8 weeks before a white envelope with 'Citibank' would show up in my mailbox with the $70 debit card.
Bottom line: I got a great set of 'fresh' tires for $366 total, plus a deal on installation. I'm happy with that.