Reply to "Fed Up with Vendors"

HERE IS A CURRENT VENDOR SITUATION..

An owner recently lost his billet gas cap - the one that came with the curved aluminum Hall fuel neck. He posted to the POCA Forum seeking one, and then posted he had found a vendor that was able to hook him up with one; although many other vendors had said they were totally out of stock and no longer available.

Having lost the very same cap on my recent Vegas journey, I wrote the owner asking him to update me upon his receipt of the cap. He did, and the package arrived just the other day.

I just sent him this email-
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Ah, got to love that vendor.

Let me see if I got this right...

He first says he 'has them on the shelf' and it is 'in the mail'. LIE

He says his CNC guy can get them easily. LIE

Then he says it is delayed because he had to get it anodized. LIE

Then when it arrives, it is a plastic Perma Cap that you can find online for about $14, and at Kragens for $20. BAIT AND SWITCH, IF NOT FRAUD

He surely knows you can't anodize plastic, so this tells me he knew darn well what you were seeking - the aluminum cap to fit the Hall curved filler neck.

And if it had been 'on the shelf' it wouldn't have needed anodizing because they all came that way anyway.

But he leads you on and ships something you could have bought yourself for far less. I hate to ask, but what was your total cost after he charged you for shipping and handling? :-(

I honestly had a very high suspicion of this whole scenario from your first posting that he had that cap. That is why I held off calling him until I got your report on what the actual outcome was.

Rant mode off. ;-)

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And the vendors wonder why we rag on them?

Because they, at times, are jerks, assholes, liars and scam artists.

Larry

I'll gladly reveal who the vendor is, but in deference to George who seems to think telling the truth is sometimes not the best policy, you'll have to PM me for his name.