Sur vivun as ya do jmma lol decided i was kermit today miss piggy was busy lol answered phone as resident muppet lol
kazbanz,
Jul 23, 6:31am
mate--ya wanna tranz late dat into engrish for me?
tigra,
Jul 23, 6:41am
Kaz regarding OP, any common link regarding gender, race or age of complaining buyers?
tigger8,
Jul 23, 10:25am
Great, what Clan Tartan paint do you have? Looking for a Cobden Tartan . cheers
cubasesx,
Jul 23, 11:40am
We call them "since yas"
carstauranga001,
Jul 23, 1:43pm
They almost always have two legs, two arms and two eyes. They should also have two ears but often those don't seem to be in working order.
kazbanz,
Jul 23, 5:13pm
Nope not really --EXCEPT Almost without exception they are the ones that insist on driving their rusty pile of cack right in the very middle of the yard. -That odviously totally blocks anyone else comeing or going. -
poppy62,
Jul 23, 6:51pm
"And" don't forget they proceed to let the unlicensed mutt out to wander at will, peeing on the wheels and taking a dump right in the most used pathway of the yard.
gunhand,
Jul 23, 6:54pm
I think most call them children these days.
flashgordon_nz,
Jul 23, 7:47pm
Kaz, I purchased for the first time from a dealer earlier this year. A late model ute. I had serveral on my watch list. This particular one got a good "Easter discount" applied. Ticked all the boxs. (4 hour drive away) Rung the dealer up the Thursday evening. All seemed straight foward. I had the funds. Offered him a sizeable deposit via internet banking, balance on the Saturday morning. I would come up, check it over, pay and take. Got a "you seem straight up and serious, don't worry about the depost, see ya Saturday morning". Saturday morning, I'm 2 hours (half way) there, rung him at 9, and I got "oh, my colluege has sent a couple out for a test drive in that. I will ring ya back when their back". I carried on up there, rung him again. No answer. Rung him serveral more times. No returned calls. Sooo, back on tm, found another similar ute. Got him down to a similar price, and drive it home. Very happy.
kazbanz,
Jul 24, 7:04am
flash-I strongly suspect you dodged a bullet there.The ONLY reason a dealer wouldn't have jumped on your offer is if there was something not right. Incidently with todays technology there is apsolutely no reason a VOSA can't be completed and sent to you showing the whole deal and just being conditional to inspection. .
kazbanz,
Jul 25, 6:37am
Actually one "customer" told his kid to just take a pee in the garden there. Pointing at the side of our place. He genuinely couldn't see the problem when I asked him not to do so by saying I really don't thisnk its a good idea. . I had the alarm remote in my pocket at the time so clicked the lekkie fence on. son diddn;t pee for very long. Dad wasn't happy but directly above where he was peeing was the warning sighn
jason_247,
Jul 25, 7:23am
i dont have a problem with customers coming back with a dumb question and i will treat with respect as we all learn at some stage. But its very hard when someone comes in and slams shit on the counter and starts yelling.
Had a guy get irate as we sold him a car battery 9 months ago for a commodore. (right battery 36 month warrenty) he drove to waiouru and stayed in hotel, left lights on and drained battery to 0v overnight. Jump started in morning and drove up mountain. that arvo battery still dead.
rung us up going nato about everything going wrong in his life. turns out the 80Amp charge had boiled the battery bone dry and wrecked it.
Would have helped him anyway but i cant do much when im being insulted
jason_247,
Jul 25, 7:27am
A friend also recently sold a 2002 bmw 540i. guy came back few weeks later saying air flow meter has just packed up as it idles badly and doesnt have much power.
i got called round. questioned who scanned the car, got told noone but he was sure its the AFM becuase his mate said it was.
plugged my scan tool in, got missfire codes, CAT codes, injection codes etc.
cleared codes and started the car to see if the codes reappeared. huge clouds of blue smoke out the back.
asked him how longs that been going. (fearing CCV valve or similar)
got told "oh it ran out of fuel last week so we had to use 20l of two stroke mix from the chainsaws, but i will put proper 91 in when that runs out so not to worry"
told him to f*** off and not bring the car back ever again.
andrewph,
Jul 25, 7:43pm
We used to have a customer who always complained about the price of the jobs we did on his taxi/hiace and wouldn't leave until we gave him a discount. So my boss got sick of this so he used to put an hours labour on the top of the job and discount some of it depending on how long the guy spent trying to beat him down. So we got paid for the time.
kazbanz,
Jul 26, 5:02pm
Wheewee- closest I have EVER come to hitting a customer was today. 7000km after purchase a customer has come back demanding I pay for a new set of spark plugs for his car.-No they havent failed but they are 8000km away from the recomended replacement k's. WHY? because replacing spark plugs,air filters and fuel filters are not a service item and is not part on normal ownership of a car.
rlr29,
Jul 28, 8:19am
"It doesn't burn any oil". oh yeah that was the dealer. Along with "yeah it does rattle a little bit" and my favourite "KM's don't matter"
ozz1,
Jul 28, 2:46pm
Im a wrecker.and love it when . people come in and say. eg "i bought this head. lite . tail lite etc. off trade me. . and its the wrong side. . trader wont refund. can you swap it for other side. ?. ". "how much you payfor it?". i ask. get $ response. and most times more than I would sell it for. oh and all mounting lugs are unbroken.
franc123,
Dec 18, 1:38pm
Please tell me you are taking the piss. The ignorance of the public doesn't and never has surprised me but that is ridiculous.
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