vendor not delivering parts

[moparnut]

Originally Posted by John510

I feel your pain dude. Im on week 29 waiting for Asanti to cut me some wheels.

Please tell us which vendor though and help some of us out before we order

I don't think he can as the other thread like this got locked. I think vendors & manufacturers don't care how hard we peons work for our money! I waited on brakes for 6 months, and when I got them they were WRONG! I finally had to seal with the manufacturer (Wilwood) who took great care of me. Buying and getting parts has been harder than building the car itself! I think with the success of Pro Touring car builds, vendors wanna take the money and run!

[Blake Foster]

Originally Posted by moparnut

I don't think he can as the other thread like this got locked. I think vendors & manufacturers don't care how hard we peons work for our money! I waited on brakes for 6 months, and when I got them they were WRONG! I finally had to seal with the manufacturer (Wilwood) who took great care of me. Buying and getting parts has been harder than building the car itself! I think with the success of Pro Touring car builds, vendors wanna take the money and run!

I think You are 100% off Base.. for MOST Vendors and Manufacturers.. MOST

If the guy sitting in the puffy chair doesn't care then no one at that company will care..... with this invention we all call the internet i think you can see how Important it is to CARE!!! Every order is Important.

I can speak to both sides of this discussion and I can tell you being the customer is WAYYY easire than being the supplier/manufacturer. you are trying to handle the build of one car with one engine one set of brakes etc.
now try doing 20 or more at the same time????
now i am not bitching just trying to shed a little light thats all

We order parts all day long, these are parts we use everyday. We try to have them JIT "just in time" well guess what, that doesn't always work, if our vendor gets a big contract or their vendor is out of stock on something guess what happens. there can be 5-10 guys in line that all have to do their part 100% perfectly for you to get your wheels in 6 weeks??
the raw aluminum, the foundry, the forger, the shipping companies, the machinist, the powdwecoater, the hoop manufacturer, the nut and bolt guy. the chromer, the box supplier, the guy who bolts the wheels together, the accounting department........... you get where this is going, and if one of those guys screws up guess who doesn't get their stuff.
especially with the economy the way it is EVERYONE is lean on product.

I don't think you have seen to many Vendors Take the money and RUN!!

[Stuart Adams]

Originally Posted by killer69

I think You are 100% off Base.. for MOST Vendors and Manufacturers.. MOST

If the guy sitting in the puffy chair doesn't care then no one at that company will care..... with this invention we all call the internet i think you can see how Important it is to CARE!!! Every order is Important.

I can speak to both sides of this discussion and I can tell you being the customer is WAYYY easire than being the supplier/manufacturer. you are trying to handle the build of one car with one engine one set of brakes etc.
now try doing 20 or more at the same time????
now i am not bitching just trying to shed a little light thats all

We order parts all day long, these are parts we use everyday. We try to have them JIT "just in time" well guess what, that doesn't always work, if our vendor gets a big contract or their vendor is out of stock on something guess what happens. there can be 5-10 guys in line that all have to do their part 100% perfectly for you to get your wheels in 6 weeks??
the raw aluminum, the foundry, the forger, the shipping companies, the machinist, the powdwecoater, the hoop manufacturer, the nut and bolt guy. the chromer, the box supplier, the guy who bolts the wheels together, the accounting department........... you get where this is going, and if one of those guys screws up guess who doesn't get their stuff.
especially with the economy the way it is EVERYONE is lean on product.

I don't think you have seen to many Vendors Take the money and RUN!!

Vendors/Manufacturers probably would not take the money and run, they would not be in business long, but a middle person gathering the money for customers and vendors/ manufactureres may.