I gave up on waiting for snail mail and downloaded the sale book from the
web site.
Mike Munson
Atlanta
70-6 racecar
73-6
----- Original Message -----
From: "BOB KRAMER" <rgk@flash.net>
To: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>; "Mackay, Steve"
<steve.mackay@analog.com>
Cc: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: TRF
> My TRF Winter Sale book just got here today (TX).
>
> Bob Kramer
> rgk@flash.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
> To: "Mackay, Steve" <steve.mackay@analog.com>
> Cc: <6pack@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: TRF
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's not just you, but it's always good to keep things in perspective.
> > We've all probably called _any_ of the vendors at one time or another
and
> > they didn't have the part(s) we need right then in stock.
> >
> > I just want to point out two things:
> >
> > 1. the disclaimer at the beginning of the TRF WInter Parts Sale (Part 1)
> > 2002 indicates that most of the specials listed in that catalog are more
> > or less closeouts... once they're gone, they're gone.
> >
> > 2. If you are like me, you didn't get the publication dated 22-Jan-2002
> > until this weekend past - close to two weeks after the start date of the
> > sale. This has the effect of giving others that live closer to TRF (in
the
> > US postal sense) an advantage. THis is especially true on certain items
> > that have a low unit count on the shelf.
> >
> > WHile you are certainly free to express yourself with regard to your
> > dissapointment, I urge you to reconsider.
> >
> > Many is the time that I call for parts and they are not in stock - BUT -
> > the sales folks tell me that they are expecting the parts in three weeks
> > or whatever, I back order the parts and many times they arrive at my
house
> > before the suspected shipment date.
> >
> > TRF having items out of stock is hardly comparable to Enron (in
financial
> > terms), even though I'm sure that TRF wouldn't mind having a fraction of
> > the cashflow that Enron would have had prior to the whole bankruptcy
> > thing.
> >
> > Issuing my now annual response to this situation: please recall that
even
> > when TR6's were new that backorders were the norm and not the exception.
> > I'm not kidding when I say that parts availability is actually way
better
> > now than it was then. The reality is that we have to plan for some
repairs
> > on our cars and if things don't pan out (parts wise), there are still
> > several vendors that can fill in the gaps and if even that does not
work,
> > it's very likely that with a little ingenuity we can get our cars at
least
> > to a drivable state.
> >
> > regards,
> > rml
>
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