Re: Disappointment - New Hope

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Apr 22, 10:26=A0pm, "Bob La Londe" <onebike...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Apr 22, 2:36 pm, "RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> "Frank Kurz" <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> > On 21/04/2011 7:01 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> >> >> As I have made abundantly clear Tri-Ed has made my shitlist. I quit
> >> >> dealing with them, because over and over again they failed to provi=
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> >> >> products in a timely fashion with products often never showing up a=
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> >> >> all
> >> >> and of course they couldn't possibly condescend to let me know. Its
> >> >> cost
> >> >> me a couple customers and a lot of headaches...
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> >> >> ... I just makes me sick that Tri-Ed got some more of my money.
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> >> > Your experience with Tri-Ed has been the exact opposite of mine. The=
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> >> > Vancouver office is simply Aces. I think this really proves that
> >> > "people
> >> > make the difference" when it comes to national companies.
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> >> I agree and I disagree. A company policy can over bear even good peopl=
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> >> I
> >> have followed a few sales people from one distributor to another thoug=
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> >> because they take good care of me personally.
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> >> I agree Bob, the salesperson makes all the difference..
> >> Once I make a connection with a sales person, I stick with them...
> >> They understand what it is I'm talking about and don't give me a lot o=
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> >> grief over "sales"..
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> >> Only problem I have to break-in a new one every 4 or 5 years...
> >> Seem none of them want to stay in sales longer than that..
> >> ( or god forbid they up and die on me.. had that happen several times
> >> now..)
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> >> RTS-
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> > Rocky ......ummmm ...... ahhh ......
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> > Did it ever occur to you that ummmmm .... it might have something to
> > do with =A0ummmm ..... you?
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> Can't speak for Rocky, but I know its me. =A0I took a distributor sales
> staffer's word for it once that I don't need to worry about inventorying
> anything I don't need to have instantly today for service. =A0He said, "T=
hat's
> what distributors are for." =A0I'm sure he was right, but so far I guess =
I
> haven't done business with a real distributor since then.-

I was just talking about the ones that keep dying on him.