{"id":7135,"date":"2015-11-07T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T05:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2017-04-15T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T05:57:56","slug":"automotivetouchup-com-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/07\/automotivetouchup-com-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotivetouchup.com Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Automotivetouchup.com Review: Terrible.<\/p>\n<p>My car got some scratches in September. I tried a scratch repair kit that I found online, \u00a0Automotivetouchup.com. Their website looks professional but don&#8217;t be fooled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The instructions for how to apply the paint were mediocre<\/strong>, especially considering they spent the effort to make a pile of good looking 30-second-long &#8220;look how easy it is!&#8221; videos enshrined on their website that skip steps to entice suckers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.automotivetouchup.com\/touchupdirections.aspx\">Go ahead and take a look at their instructions<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/automotivetouchup.com_.txt\">local copy<\/a>)At a glance they look alright enough but read them closely. Could you actually follow them? Compare the instructions to their jazzy promo video on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Repair Small Chips With A Paint Pen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x3SAgJGfnM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The color match was poor<\/strong>. See these before and after photos (click to enlarge)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150913_171109884-auto-touchup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150913_171109884-auto-touchup-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150913_171109884 auto touchup\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150913_171109884-auto-touchup-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150913_171109884-auto-touchup-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150913_171109884-auto-touchup-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150913_171109884-auto-touchup-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150913_171109884-auto-touchup.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR-auto-touchup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR-auto-touchup-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR auto touchup\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR-auto-touchup-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR-auto-touchup-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR-auto-touchup-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR-auto-touchup-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20151002_121652207_HDR-auto-touchup.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150918_110956838-auto-touchup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150918_110956838-auto-touchup-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150918_110956838 auto touchup\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150918_110956838-auto-touchup-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150918_110956838-auto-touchup-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150918_110956838-auto-touchup-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150918_110956838-auto-touchup-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_20150918_110956838-auto-touchup.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Their customer service was nonexistent<\/strong>. I sent them messages on their website on 10-13-15 and 10-24-15 asking for help and I got no response.<\/p>\n<p>Today I googled &#8220;Automotivetouchup.com review&#8221;. Ugh. They get <strong>embarrassingly bad \u00a0reviews<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resellerratings.com\/store\/AutomotiveTouchup_Microfinish_LLC\">from \u00a0resellerratings.com<\/a>. 33 reviews, 3.6 out of 10. Poor reviews for their product and customer service. I don&#8217;t have time to deal with this crap.<\/p>\n<p>I know that scratch repair paints aren&#8217;t miracle cures. I was just astounded at how hard they are working at making a poor \u00a0consumer experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automotivetouchup.com Review: Terrible. My car got some scratches in September. I tried a scratch repair kit that I found online, \u00a0Automotivetouchup.com. Their website looks professional but don&#8217;t be fooled. The instructions for how to apply the paint were mediocre, especially considering they spent the effort to make a pile of good looking 30-second-long &#8220;look how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}