Subject: RE: fork tubes: update
Author: Lannis
Date: Apr 25, 2004, 11:08 AM
Post ID: 1716627930
mjon-@yahoo.com wrote:
Now I have a bit of a dilemma. I don't know whether this guy is a bad egg, or just an ornery old bugger that can sometimes be trusted. His adds claim that he has a lot of parts for the older v-twin guzzis - loops, Converts, etc. I'm sure I would like to avail myself of his parts in the future, but I feel a strong inner hesitation. Especially since he is half a continent away, so that I cannot go speak to him face-to-face. Safe riding to you all! -Mike (69 ambo, 77 vert) |
Mike -
Hard to tell what to do in these situations.
Sounds like you've been pretty accomodating. Might (as you say) just be
a situation where your personality and that of the dealer just don't
"work together" well.
Sometimes a dealer is a "crusty old bugger", and other crusty old
buggers get along very well with him. Sometimes he's a laid back,
not-in-a-hurry Kentuckian, and other laid-back good old boys will get
along fine with him. Maybe he's a fast-talking, impatient Yankee; other
fast-talking, impatient Yankees will think he's great, while the
laid-back types will think he's some kind of snake-oil salesman.
They're all human, after all.
I get along well with the great majority of the dealers from which I buy
parts for my Guzzis and my BSAs. There's only a few with whom I'm not
"comfortable", or I don't feel like they understand the language I'm
speaking, and I just don't call any more. So far, have never felt a
need to warn anybody about them by name because of dishonesty.
Well, just one. Dennis Schultz had a Harley-Davidson dealership in
Lynchburg, Virginia in 1984, and I bought a brand new belt-drive
shovelhead ElectraGlide from him. Several months later, he took a cash
deposit from me on a Friday for a bunch of accessories; on Saturday, his
shop was cleaned out, empty, locked up, and he'd gone back to
Pennsylvania. Watch out for him.
But all the Guzzi guys are 100% OK by me.....
Lannis