well seeing how i got more than enough alligators nipping at my ass, i gotta pick my battles carefully
so here is a half ass attempt anyway.
most diy'ers are the tightest bunch of fella's on the planet
and price is certainly a factor
now of course it takes about an hour to tear the engine down, but
you gotta get it out of the crate, which usually means destruction of the crate
you then have to reassemble the short block
then build another crate to ship it
very conservatively 3 hours minimum, and likely more like 4 or 5 hours
It's a "kit", there is absolutely no need to reassemble it, or build another crate, just whack the bits on a pallette and the smaller bits in a box, 1 hour tops, which you charge for and which people will pay, not even a skilled job.
i don't know what the shop rates are in other places but that will add about 400 bucks to the base price
of the engine! minimum!
that 400 bucks puts the kit engine outside the price range us stingy bastards want to spend.
Like I said, 1 hour is tops, it's unskilled, anyone can do it once shown how to once, 50 bucks.
myself, if i wanted another engine, i would certainly buy the kit, tear it down myself, sort the wheat from the chaff, call
the seller for replacement parts that are substandard or as you say "crap" and put it together to my standards.
the time spent by yourself and the seller doing this exceeds the 1 hour it would take to strip everything as a matter of course, plus the extra shipping charges, plus the extra delay.
as for not making an ass of oneself, it only stands to reason that one can expect much better service if he is pleasant to work with,, and should expect a bit less if he is an ass,, period.
i defy anyone here to look me in the eye and tell me he delivers the same level of service to nice folks as he does to assholes.
you can lie to your friends and i will lie to mine, but
we ain't gonna lie to each other on this point
bob g
you don't sell to assholes, period.
if you sell to assholes it rubs off and you start treating all your customers like assholes.
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true story.
week or two ago I ordered some engineering supplies from a company here in the UK, bought and paid online, next day courier delivery signed for.
next day 4pm rolls around and no sign of my package, I go online to check the track and trace and discover that allegedly I signed for the package which was delivered at 3pm.
I ring the seller, he asks if I have been "carded" by the courier, no, he asks if I've checked with my neighbours, no, they're out at work, he tells me not to worry.
I tell him I paid him for goods, and next day delivery, it is now the next day, I ain't got my goods and someone, presumably the driver, has forged my signature, which screws with the legal contract between me and him.
he says chill out, happens a lot, driver just probably left it with a neighbour
I say driver didn't card me, so I have no idea where it is, or where to start looking, I haven't got my goods and someone forged my name a signature on the track and trace
he says I am being unreasonable, nobody else makes such a big thing about it
late that night another (not next door either side, 2 doors down) comes around with a package, no he didn't sign for it, driver must have done that himself.
Chronos Engineering just lost a customer for life, conservatively speaking mebbe US$ 20k worth of custom over the next 12 months.
Why?
How can I possibly trust someone who cares so little about his business reputation that he simply dismisses a third party courier forging my signature and dumping a parcel without even bothering to "card" me, denying me the ability to sign for the goods and mark "not inspected", particularly seeing as there was one item on my order that wasn't present in the box.
Was the box sealed he asks me, yeah, so what, all couriers carry brown tape in the van.
Screw him, chargeback and your goods are awaiting your collection at your expense.
It's about principles, you either have them or you don't.
