Vendors,
I normally wouldn't post anything like this publicly, but in all fairness to any other vendors who may get stuck dealing with this person in the future, (and since myself and one of our dealers have already been told that he would be posting) I'm going to clear the air with this situation first and warn any other retailers of what they might be getting themselves into.
The customers name is Jason (I'll leave it at that for now- if any other vendors want specific info to avoid this person, just email me). Cobb's Diesel Performance sold him some parts, including one of our tuners, of which we were to drop-ship to him. The order was taken on 6/7/2010 by Cobb's and was shipped.
When the order was shipped from us, it was supposed to have been shipped next day air instead of ground, making the order a day later than the original delivery date. Simple slip-up. Here is a copy of the email sent to the customer earlier today concerning it:
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Originally Posted by Donna @ Spartan
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Subject: Spartan order
From: donna@spartandieseltech.com
Date: Fri, June 11, 2010 12:29 pm
To: jvotro{xxxxx}@gmail.com
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Jason,
I am so sorry but I did only ship your
tuner ground UPS. That will be 2 days
in transit 1Z709E3X0344067673
You should see it on Monday.
If you will give me a call when you
get it, to get you setup on the
web site. I will make this up to you
by sending you level 2. ( that will give
you the 275HP tune for free)
Please let me know if that
would be OK. I did try to get UPS
to change the shipping but once
it is in transit you can't.
Again I am sorry about the delay.
Here's my number 828 692 9967
Thanks
Donna @ Spartan |
I answered the customers call at about 1:30 or 2:00 today, of when I immediately started getting cussed and told how ****ty my company was, Cobb's Diesel, and that he never wanted to deal with either of us again. Literally had to interrupt the ranting to find out what his name was to even understand what the problem was. After asking him to chill out so I could find out what was even going on, he continued on- shortly thereafter I lit into him, cussed him like a dog- because he would hear nothing else, and hung up in the middle of a rash of names thrown at myself and everyone else here and at Cobb's.
Sadly I wasn't able to record any of our conversation, but luckily I have a recording of one of the SEVERAL voicemails left to Cobb's Diesel Performance after John hung up on the customer twice because of his belligerent attitude.
The sound file is attached. Warning for anyone who listens to it- it isn't only vulgar, but is also racist as hell. Will certainly give anyone who cares to listen a good taste of who this person really is. Certainly calmer than some of the other calls, but I'm sure the point will come through quite clearly.
The whole situation was bad enough for me to actually stop shipment of the tuner in route. The tuner will be coming back to us, and this customer will receive a refund when we get it back. Spartan will NOT be dealing with him, and we will not ship another tuner nor provide any support to this person if he obtains one without going through us.
In my 4 years in this business so far, I have NEVER dealt with someone like this. Note to the mods; if there is anything you need to discuss with me concerning this post, please contact me. I truly feel this needs to be out there for sake of anyone possibly dealing with this person.
Customer Sound Clip
06-11-2010, 10:47 AM
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