Re: I didn\'t buy anything from Sean Roe the otherday.......
Well Mike, when you fail to pay for an "extended" period of time, that can put a damper on the relationship. Since you do business in the community, how would you feel if someone failed to pay you for an "extended" period of time? The damage issue should have been rectified immediately with UPS and don't you think that might have contributed to the "other" issues?
Mike
96RT/10,
I agree, it was totally and completely my fault that it took so long to rectify the situation. I accepted full responsibility for that with Sean, and I don't think he sent me a damaged scooter. I think UPS damaged it, BUT, they leave stuff in my garage, so it's my fault that I let them do that and was not there to see the damage. Sean and I reached an amicable agreement to settle our business. There were no harsh feelings, and I never felt the need to talk about the product or about anything that happened. I accepted blame.
None of that is my problem at all with Sean Roe.
What IS my problem is that seven months later, after I made comments Sean did not like about his supercharger, he chose to attempt to discredit and embarass me by insinuating I had screwed him somehow.
Let's be clear on this. My problems are
1) I think details of a transaction between a vendor and customer should be private - ESPECIALLY when they are concluded. If I had a beef with the scooter, I should have raised it with Sean before I told him I was "all set". If HE had a problem with my end of things, HE should have raised it before he told me "Mike we all get busy, it's cool".
2) If he chooses to take the first step and initiate the flaming, at least post ALL the details. He neglected to mention the fact that when we finally concluded our business, I had been calling him for 3 days straight, and emailing him with ZERO response. He also neglected to mention that it was *I* who concluded the transaction by purchasing again from him, and it was *I* that insisted he charge me full price, when he offered to charge less than half.
Forget the scooter. Forget it's condition or it's status or whatever. Sean didn't send me a broken scooter, it was I that made a mistake there. Forget ALL of that, because NONE of that is a problem to me. Only the two things listed above are a problem to me.
If you think it's OK for a vendor to work something out with a customer and then post half-truths on the Internet in response to something the customer said that the tuner didn't like, then I have to say I disagree. There are guys that owe me $$... I have a Viper customer that took a long time to pay a large bill (in the tens of thousands). But we worked it out. It was closed - finished business. I would NEVER post a flame against him (especially a half-truth) just because he said something about a product of mine that I didn't like. That is just unethical and violates what should be the privacy of our transaction.
