

| Subject: | In defense of Ron |
| Date: | Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:24:52 EDT |
For those of you who have never visited the Bus Depot, you have no idea how busy Ron is. If you were to visit you would be assailed by a constant ringing of phones, while Ron is on the other line with a customer taking his/her order, while also trying to box up some orders and get them ready to ship by five o'clock. He does have help. He has a young lady and another fellow there who also help him pack up stuff and answer the phones. So give the man a break. Yes, I too learned very quickly that emails of orders or leaving orders on the anwering machine is an exercise in futility. But in Ron's defense, when you do talk to him he usually knows exactly what part you need and ships it out post haste. This is better than my local "Foreign Parts" place that is run by a family who has been in the business for 20 years or more, and yet manage to screw up my orders around 50 % of the time. Did I mention that thier phones are busy alot too, or that thier prices are twice what Ron charges (They wanted $50 for an Upper ball joint that I got 2 of from Ron for $25 each!) If you want to talk about crummy service the local parts places around where I live (Pep Boys, et al) all have to order the parts for any VW, (they'll be in Monday!) when the parts come in, half the time they are the wrong ones or the managers in the store don't know where they are in the stock room, and don't even think about checking out because the one person on the register is checking people with credit cards out manually since the little credit card machine is broken (again). Sorry to be venting but really the only problem we are experiencing Ron is some hold time (Solution: Call right when he gets in around 10 am. Don't call around 5 'cause he's busy), and the fact that our emails don't get answered (Solution: Fax in the order, or call and speak to someone.) Beside that I love his prices and his knowlege of our very specialized vehicles makes him the man I call when I need stuff. Ken Wilford John 3:16 PS No Ron didn't ask me to say this but somebody had to.
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