Scenario: driver calls last night 11pm, says the car will be here at 7am, long story short, I get a few more calls and the car will be here between 3 and 6pm. I'll update..

Still waiting, is it custom to tip the driver?

Not when he is 10hours late

Seriously I have no idea.

Tip the guy if you like his service. Don't tip him if you think his tardiness is not justified.

just my opinion though......

...if the car is in the condition it was when it left the seller's location, and he's not a jerk...maybe throw him some cash to buy a nice dinner and a couple beverages.

Maybe you should buy him a nice watch!

Got a call from the driver, stuck in traffic might not be here today.

I didn't realize NYC traffic could make you 2 days late?

I bet he stopped at every massage parlore on the way down.

Happy happy ending sir?

OKAY... it's been long enough to do the...



I know it not your fault... but it is a time thing... you post and we reply

Pics of what?

How about pics of your clean garage? Or some of your wife and kids, anything you want to take pics of, they just want something, I dont think it really matters.

Not married

So some random pics of my other hobbies.

How about a girlfriend? Everyone here likes girl pics, just make them clean or put it in the Sandbox

You guys sure do love pics

so when the car does come, what kind of "defects" or problems caused by the shipper should I look for, given that we bought the car from across the country, and we never saw it in person....

a tip...plastics.

k

My Girlfriend in LA was six days late once, had nothing to do with the traffic. I

drove her home and the next day she got her period, hey there was traffic...does

that count.

The Graduate




The driver's black eye.

look for any body damage that is not recorded on preship inspection.

look for any suspension damage, ie a-arms, trailing arms, half shafts, engine mount bar. they like to tie them down at these points.

ever seen "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - check the mileage, that driver may be out joy riding... LOL

Pics of your girlfriend would have been good... or maybe your mom. Got any pics of your mom? Want to buy some?

Pics are manditory. Some of us are old and don't have time to read or forgot how to read. We just like to look at the pics. Unlike Playboy mags which we DO read...

Sometimes when this "waiting" shit happens, I imagine the people in the company going, "Lets fuck with this guy and tell him his car will be here on Friday when we know it will here on Sunday. Ha Ha. Hell, we already have his money." Why do they do it? Because they can.

Spoke

Look at where the dude put the chains or straps. If they are attached at the shocks, axels, sheet metal ect. Thats where you will see some delivery damage. If the bumpers are bent, check inside the trunks at the trunk floors to see if they are humped or kinked up and don't match each side. Look at the exhaust, if it sticks out past the bumper and was low, he might have bent the exhaust and even cracked a head. The car needs to be held on the trainler form underneath not from the body. Do all the fenders lign up or is one out of whack like its been accidented? Is all the glass still in good shape? Did the body scrape on the trailer when rolled off, look for scrape marks. Just look for anything the driver does or has done to hold your car down and role it off the trailer.

As for pictures, aaaaaaaaah..................................how about your pet if you have one, please don't embaras your self with goats or sheep if thats what ya got, and don't forget to post a pic of the car when you get it home!

Spoke: thing is, they dont have all the money yet...they have a deposit, and they recieve the rest of it when they deliver it....

JPB: good tips, and thanks...will defiently look for theses points tomorrow morning....bright and early... and will post pics....

then the ? is how much do you tip the guy. 5,10,20? do you tip the plumber, your doctor, the clerk at the check out line? it's his JOB to deliver the goods in a timely fashion and when promissed. if it's going to be late, their responsibilty is to inform YOU. YOU are the customer and THEY are the service provider. no doubt your phone # is on the bill of lading along with your address. by in large i'm very dissapointed in customer service these days. i got escorted out of mclendons (hardware store) by the security guard 2 weeks ago when i told 3 managers how poor their c.s was and how they could fix.

k

i got escorted out of mclendons (hardware store) by the security guard 2 weeks ago when i told 3 managers how poor their c.s was and how they could fix.
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Thats so cool Rhody....
I aggree with you C.S. is gone these days. And its like nobody cares. I had a Hostess flip on my mother in law for asking a question the other night at a really nice resturant. HAHA she called the owner(family friend) and got her fired.

wait......wait.....i just had a visual of this happening!

hey kev have you ever seen the show boiling point on mtv?

5 days for a stupid grommet to get from woodinville (about 50 miles away) to the store near me. "i could walk to woodinville and back and have one in less than 5 days". their 'computer' showed 25 in stock @ my store. they had 0. over 40 'in stock' @ the sumner store, drove down, 0. they had a long list of 'why things are they way they are'.

1. mclendon's is a 'mom and pop operation'. hardly.
2. unemployment is at a all time low in wa. it's hard to find drivers.
3. the person who enters the in or out of stock data is off today.
4. we don't know why.
5. more
6. more
7. more

"your store sems to be top heavy with managers who seem unable to rectify c.s. problems. perhaps you could jump in your co provided car, drive to woodinville, fetch one for me and the problem will be solved". "security to the customer non-service desk".

sorry for the hijack.

k

its cool

so, getting back on topic: got a call from the driver today says "hey jon, you'll have your car definetly tomorrow (sunday) between 10 and 12"

I dont trust these guys as far as I can throw him, but we'll see. I'll post pics tomorrow -JON

...okay...12:05 EST...is it soup yet?? (old commercial reference)

He's too busy taken pictures for us. There is no way the driver didnt show up today

Only 915 here on the west side of the country. They still have a few hours to show.

....ahhh...yeah. Most drivers I know are sooo willing to work on Sunday morning. Mine coming from CA went thru this same delivery schedule. Ended up getting here late Monday, rush hour.

Hopefully it's gets flat bedded from whatever hub it was dropped off at....that might be holding things up.

...just spoke to Jon...it has reached it's destination...

She did what?!? I thought you guys had laws on the books about harshing other people's mellow down there in Scruz...

But seriously, yes, the concept of customer service is disappearing. Or maybe I'm just getting old enough that I can complain about everything going to hell...

on his face maybe

Ok, It's after 12, where are the damn pictures? Did the driver make it? The tip goes down more and more as the minutes tick by.

hope its not in some body shop due to damage done in transit. just kidding

It's almost 2:00 and still nothing? WTF?

I thought you guys in Berkeley did that naturally...

No, I thought our special gift here in Berzerkeley was to see that this decline in customer service is just another example of How The Man Is Keeping Us Down by turning us against each other.

This is different from my college in the 80s, where our special gift was to see this as just another plot by the forces of white male-dominated, global patriarchal corporate oppression...

I'm so glad I left all that behind and took a job with a Big Evil Bank. Now in exchange for my paycheck I just, you know, oppress the helpless, tread upon the downtrodden, do a little light soul crushing of the people working with me. So satisfying!

rmital said he spoke to Jon and it's arrived. You seriously think he's going to be thinking about us when he's got a shiny new toy in the driveway?

I think ill keep u guys waiting for another 20 minutes or so (until all the pics get uploaded. It got here just as it left the sellers house