Jim Muller wrote:
>
> Has TRF been experiencing a problem over the last year? Cash-flow problems?
> Disgruntled employees? Flat tires on their delivery trucks? Anything???
> Or are they now running a business model based on just-in-time (i.e. ASAP)
> delivery to themselves after an order has been placed? It seems that for the
> last year (at least) almost every item I have requested is backordered. You'd
> think that a parts warehouse would actually *have* some of the stuff they
> sell. I'm running well under 10% success rate on finding items in stock.
> Is this a "feature" now of the entire LBC parts industry?
>
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller@pop.rcn.com
> '80 Spitfire (Percy)
> '70 GT6+ (Nigel)
>
It's been that way since at least 1996 when I had the same experience. I
always ask for stock status before placing the order. If it ain't in stock,
I get it elsewhere.
Cheers,
Joe
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