Terrible Vendors

[Malek@MRF]

Originally Posted by THE TECH

Trust me, I've thought about making this thread for a long time now. If I thought there would be no repercussions, I would have put their names in the first post. It's far to easy for all the bandwagon people to jump on and immediately take sides. Seen it way too many times here already. By keeping my rant more vague in regards to the specific vendors, I can let people know that a shiny wrapped piece of dog crap is still dog crap even if they don't know the exact names. At the end of the day, the only one who will lose here is me. Nothing would happen to the vendors in question and I would just be called a liar and flamed since the tendency here is to be like sheep when the vendor is the shepherd.

At any rate, just making the thread makes me feel a little better and hearing that others have had similar issues at least lets me know I'm not the only one.

I feel you on that. I know it can be tough here sometimes, but try and make it as pleasant for yourself as possible.

Hopefully you aren't wronged again and have found a few you can trust, as that is a very hard thing to do these days.

See you at the next meet man.

[THE TECH]

Originally Posted by Malekreza11

I feel you on that. I know it can be tough here sometimes, but try and make it as pleasant for yourself as possible.

Hopefully you aren't wronged again and have found a few you can trust, as that is a very hard thing to do these days.

See you at the next meet man.

Yeah, there are only a couple who have really done me right here.

I was just wronged yesterday now that you ask.

Hope to see you at the OC meet sometime.

[Singletrack]

I'll stop posting here (great loss I know : P) if you are banned for stating factual information in a professional manner. No point in being part of a community that lacks integrity.

I think most people that get banned step over the line. I, for one, have some pretty strong opinions and have had zero issues with the authorities here. Granted, haven't had to blast any vendors first hand though...

[THE TECH]

Originally Posted by Singletrack

I'll stop posting here (great loss I know : P) if you are banned for stating factual information in a professional manner. No point in being part of a community that lacks integrity.

I think most people that get banned step over the line. I, for one, have some pretty strong opinions and have had zero issues with the authorities here. Granted, haven't had to blast any vendors first hand though...

All good. We all have our disagreements on here, I am the first to admit it. I may have even stepped over the line from time to time, who knows. I know that I don't need a crystal ball to tell that if I start spouting out names, I would just receive a fire storm of flames over it.

[Boostin FD]

Originally Posted by THE TECH

All good. We all have our disagreements on here, I am the first to admit it. I may have even stepped over the line from time to time, who knows. I know that I don't need a crystal ball to tell that if I start spouting out names, I would just receive a fire storm of flames over it.

You don't want to do that... In the words of Richard Hammond: "Don't you know that criticism like that could hurt sales?!" ;-)

[GIdriver]

Originally Posted by THE TECH

I won't name names since the vendors control the forum but I have never had as many bad experiences with vendors as I have with the ones here. I have used 16 different vendors here and 8 of them (50% for the math challenged), I had issues with. Whether it be customer service or product or both. All I can say is, buyers beware and don't believe the hype.

I hear you, my friend.

[FruitCake]

true fact #1: most automotive vendors/shops are shit.
true fact #2: most automotive enthusiast are brand whore biased idiots who think the way they mod their car is unique but its just trash.
true fact #3: your freedom of speech is non-existent on a private forum such as bimmerpost, mods and admins have the right to delete/alter post to their likings, usually favoring vendors to sell their junk.
true fact #4: realize these true and get over it.

[swamp2]

Originally Posted by chriszeh

a certain wheel vendor here must not have much pull cause they regualrly get their ass handed to em.

Ha, exactly. Those thread were great even if I participated...

Originally Posted by tlp

I think your stating the obvious. Anyone with a half a brain already knows this. This board is constantly being sanitized at the request of vendors that got flamed, assuming that posters had the balls to publicly state their dissatisfaction to begin with. The politics here serves the vendors not the customers. It's a flawed platform and will never change. Before your time but the user PencilGeek comes to mind.

Can you elaborate what is this particular situation with PG? I used to participate in many threads with him.

[studntloan]

hopefully you find the vendor that works best for you here and you don't have issues again!

[Darth One]

it's also really hard to fake good service on the internet. vendors who just get people to shill for them are really obvious, and you can't keep the internet down forever. when i shop for a vendor i try to find those where an overwhelming number of people express complete happiness with them, and if anyone says there's a problem, they report back very quickly saying that it was taken care of satisfactorily.

it sometimes means you won't get the best price, but i'm happier doing business with stand-up people than getting a few bucks off. this strategy has led me to the doors of companies like IND and Velos that prove the reputation they've earned on this forum with every interaction.

[THE TECH]

Originally Posted by Alex@AUTOcouture

hopefully you find the vendor that works best for you here and you don't have issues again!

Thanks!!

[THE TECH]

Originally Posted by Darth One

it's also really hard to fake good service on the internet. vendors who just get people to shill for them are really obvious, and you can't keep the internet down forever. when i shop for a vendor i try to find those where an overwhelming number of people express complete happiness with them, and if anyone says there's a problem, they report back very quickly saying that it was taken care of satisfactorily.

it sometimes means you won't get the best price, but i'm happier doing business with stand-up people than getting a few bucks off. this strategy has led me to the doors of companies like IND and Velos that prove the reputation they've earned on this forum with every interaction.

Yes and no. It really depends on the ratio of good to bad. I even had a vendor tell me Thursday that these things don't happen at their company yet I guess I was the unlucky soul that it happened to. So either I have the worst luck of any individual and these vendors are just that great or these things are happening but are being suppressed.

[Jbook]

I'm curious of what you mean by a "bad experience" because it is different for everyone. I've dealt with 3 vendors (JLevi SW, iND, and SonicMS) and all have been great people and delivered what they promised. To some people a bad experience is getting a product 3 days later than they were supposed to, but I could care less as long as they respond and explain why it's taking longer. This thread is ridiculous... telling people you've had bad experiences, but not saying who or why. You have 6,000 posts, I'm sure you're that customer that people hate dealing with and can easily have a bad experience

[Team Plutonium]

Originally Posted by Jbook

I'm curious of what you mean by a "bad experience" because it is different for everyone. I've dealt with 3 vendors (JLevi SW, iND, and SonicMS) and all have been great people and delivered what they promised. To some people a bad experience is getting a product 3 days later than they were supposed to, but I could care less as long as they respond and explain why it's taking longer. This thread is ridiculous... telling people you've had bad experiences, but not saying who or why. You have 6,000 posts, I'm sure you're that customer that people hate dealing with and can easily have a bad experience

LOL... imagine how terrified I am right now, I just sold him my Eisenmann Race exhaust and it is in transit as we speak. :

#fingerscrossed.

[FruitCake]

lulz
i like how the vendors come in here to chime in and pretend they are not the shit vendors people are talking about
try hard

[Team Plutonium]

Originally Posted by FruitCake

lulz
i like how the vendors come in here to chime in and pretend they are not the shit vendors people are talking about
try hard

[kchu221]

Originally Posted by FruitCake

lulz
i like how the vendors come in here to chime in and pretend they are not the shit vendors people are talking about
try hard

theres only 2 vendors that commented in this thread, so i guess both venders were shit to you...?

[1MOREMOD]

I've had mostly good experiences with vendors and really like richard at m-world, harold at hp autowerks, sal and paul at evolve, eas, turner, circle bmw and apex.

[FruitCake]

Originally Posted by kchu221

theres only 2 vendors that commented in this thread, so i guess both venders were shit to you...?

why not?

[kchu221]

Originally Posted by FruitCake

why not?

nothing wrong with that, i was just wondering...

[FruitCake]

Originally Posted by kchu221

nothing wrong with that, i was just wondering...

quick google search does wonder

[Team Plutonium]

This thread is so mysterious...