REDICULOUS Customer NO SERVICE
 

What the hell is going on at Pelican Parts ?! .

Order # 1638554679-159

I was called Friday 12.10 to come pick it up after they'd closed, when I arrived this morning I was told I have no orders made, now I check my E-mail to discover its been CANCELED .

W.T.H. ?? .

I've been a loyal Customer for over twenty years and have watched the slide from good sales personnel to clueless uncaring minimum wage boobs .

This is a step by step plan to run the company into the ground .

I hope Dmitri is paying attention here ~ I don't want to lose my primary partshaus but if you don't want my business, I'll be forced to go elsewhere .

T'is the season....
 

I can empathize. I got the same treatment direct from the Benz dealership. I was contacted 6 days after I paid them over $1000 for an order in which they said, "I'm sorry but we can't fill most of that order. Would you like us to get what we can and continue or would you like us to refund the whole thing. I opted the later and they closed with "it will take 5-6 business days to refund your order. We hope you come back soon."
HA! and
Fa La-La Fa La-La

The interesting thing is :

I stopped for coffee *just* before reaching Pelican Parts whse. so when the lady (she was polite unlike some of their workers) couldn't find my order I said 'no problem, I'll wait right here whilst you figure out what's going on .

She didn't say 'that part isn't available' and neither did the refund notice .

I need the !@#$!!&%% part not B.S. .

I'm not defending either of them, however COVID has changed much in the supply chain. Around here the availability of both parts and new cars/trucks/SUVS has dropped CONSIDERABLY. The dealerships are looking like GHOST TOWNS......

A Reality Check
 

You're right husky man, however, this problem pre dates the entire covid-19 thing .

I don't understand why so few want to work or don't want to do the work they're hired for .

On the way to Pelican this morning my Sweet and I were watching clean and reasonably dressed, well shaven bums begging .

Right there on the corner a business was looking for delivery drivers, a dead easy and simple job if ever one existed .

One of the bums had a cell phone and was trying to hide it behind his cardboard sign .

I don't believe for an instant that every bum wants to be homeless but I see too many healthy young people out begging .

I've been hungry, I was even homeless for a short time in the early 1970's no one to blame but me so I got off my duff and got some crappy dead end job and rented a tiny one room apartment....

I've never had unemployment, I think it's necessary but it's hard to imagine how anyone in a major metropolitan area can't find work .

I'm not educated but I like to work and always worked hard, never once said "that's not MY job" .

It could be a drug testing issue. Not many these days can pass without coming up positive for something.

Concerning unemployment benefits. You are not required to take a job that makes less compared to what you got at your last job. If you take a lower paying job if you need unemployment again you are going to get stuck having to go to jobs at that pay level. At least that is how it was here in CA in the past.

You are correct; plus there are additional requirements that make it difficult for some to gain employment. A friend recently attended a conference on hiring; the speaker said that in the near future, two out of five Americans will end up with a criminal record which will make them unemployable. That's nearly half of all of us.

BTW, I've met and known a few of these people and believe me they were NEVER a threat to society in any way whatsoever. Most of them were falsely accused of some BS and didn't have the money to hire a high powered lawyer to defend against the lies and BS.

Nate,
This pretty much sums it up. Only those that have suffered, and know what it takes to build up, have an appreciation of it.

Today's view of suffering is having a $1000 smart phone OVER a year old with no other bills to pay or worries in the world...

This really is a OT thread, not really relevant to Diesels.

Thanks and keep it civil please.

Odd Topic Thread
 

Yes, Jay Bob ;

That's why I placed it in the off topic area, not the Diesel forum .

I don't see anyone being un civil .

Unlike many, I have compassion for those who are caught in life's switches, part of why we take in foster boys .

This weekend I'm taking my 15Y.O. foster boys to a Christmas Cookie making event, they've been before and always love it .

After that we're having the V.J.L.A.'s annual Christmas lights Motocycle ride, the boys will be following up in my brothers big old S Klasse Mercedes then I'll take them to a nice dinner on my dime .

I won't bore you with the endless boring stories but I remember every kindness ever shown to me and for me, part of being allowed to live in America means helping others .

I have little patience for those who choose poverty and misery, until you've been there or either side of the fence you cannot possibly understand .

The C.O.L.A. runs bum vans when it gets as cold as it did last night (36* F) , we pick them up and take to local Army Armory's, they open them up and provide cots, woolen blankets and hot coffee .

When you're sitting there in the van listening to young men discuss their next scam instead of '? how can we get out of this?' you begin to see the bigger, true picture .

No, I don't boot those ones out of the van .

Wages aren't keeping up with the cost of living and any business that wants the labor needs to be offering wages which are attractive enough for the work they're asking people to do.

Living in a metropolitan area is expensive. You can't simply find a cheap apartment like you mentioned and many people end up living in AirBnB type situations with 10+ other people.

I'm quite happy that there's a demand for labor as wages need to be raised. I'm unhappy with the management of my own company as our labor shortage is causing manufacturing delays. Our factory wages haven't gone up and yet you can get $3/hr more working for Burger King down the road from our factory than you can as a entry level welder in the factory.

I'm not sure what you're smoking. I don't know anyone with a $1,000 smart phone.

What you're seeing out there is enough people realizing that the jobs they had were terrible and they weren't getting anywhere staying in them. Who would want to work retail for $10/hr and no chance of moving up or getting paid more? "Bonuses" and "raises" aren't even above the cost of living increase year over year.

The pandemic gave people the chance to review what they were doing and if it was worth it. The answer that many came to is "no."

Pretty much any new iPhone 12, 13 is a grand.
You live in the DC area, there are thousands of them out there, check out any hipster at a Starbucks "blogging" for work.

We often complain about cost of living, which is indirectly referencing inflation without calling it as such. Inflation has only two causes, demand outstripping supply (short term) or currency devaluation (long term). Devaluation is directly attributable to government policy and expenditure, nothing else. The greatest pain and longest lasting is in devaluation. You can look at the dollar's devaluation since 1965 and it is utterly shocking. How can you plan a future when that nest egg might only buy you 30% then what it will now?

Solvency is the only means to a strong currency....as a country we are now discussing whether or not to take out a 6th mortgage...a harbinger of things to come.

Complaining about how people work (blogging) while complaining that nobody is willibg to work is a nice (if overplayed) cliche.

Exactly right; the dems are willing to cash checks on a bank account that is already in the red to the tune of twenty trillion ++++++. There isn't an economist on the planet who believes any of this is sane.

the dems plan is to tax those who work so we can pay those who don't. I especially enjoy the $450,000 they want to give to every illegal who crosses the border. Again, they are more than willing to spend your hard earned money. By the time they finish, the illegals will be living in mansions driving high dollar cars while the rest of us will be living in card board boxes. perfect.

Oh, Boy ~
 

Here goes husky man on another known false rant .

Somehow it's not just O.K. but good to give billions of tax dollars to the 1% and corporations that are making record profits and not paying much in taxes but helping those who actually work and pay the vast majority of taxes, is bad... :confused: .

I agree that wages have not kept up with the cost of living , I managed to persevere as did many (? most ?) here and I've never had food stamps, unemployment insurance , Obama phones or the rest but I'm not so miserable to deny children food, medical care, a warm and safe place to live and sleep either .

I've done more back breaking ,dangerous works than most here but I was just doing what I had to do to survive. I'm not proud, not ashamed either .

When I finally got a decent job I worked hard at it for thirty two years and went eight years sans any raise in spite of other departments (with far better Unions) getting un questioned 10% raises on their already ample pay ~ they didn't sit around, they like me WORKED HARD for what they got .

I never understood $1,500.00 cell phones either, I kept my beloved and great working Nokia 2G brick cell phone that always worked even when my son's $1,500.00 fancy one got no signals in the middle of nowhere, Nevada because I only cared about making phone calls, not impressing anyone else .

He was bullshjit when my crappy phone that went two weeks on a single charge, worked and his titanium one didn't .

Eventually Pacific Bell decided to no longer support the 2g system and began sending me endless high pressure sales enticements to buy (of course) a new trick and EXPENSIVE new phone, about two months before the 2g phone was supposed to stop working they sent me a message telling me Id get a new basic phone FREE OF CHARGE, my local store tried hard to refuse, I showed them the text and refused to let the sales guy touch my cell as it was _obvious_ he planned to simple delete the text and say 'tough luck buddy' .

I simply said "I know you're supposed to give me a new cell phone, if you don't want to that's fine, tell me where the corporate owned store is (most are franchises) and I'll go there .

Those in charge of the world and America in particular are working hard to keep you like serfs in the old fiefdoms .

Due to COVID, far more have hit the unemployment lines than our political leaders would like us to believe. The politicians believe they can snap their fingers and BAM! good paying jobs will grow on trees.......

What I have always enjoyed about the world of employment is this; by the time you receive your paycheck a large portion is deleted for all kinds of nefarious political wants and greeds. You sir, get what is left over which according to OUR accountants is pretty much ZIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zaebtU-CA

I almost forgot, if you don't lick the chains around your ankles, they will accuse you of being ungrateful.....


Once I read the well circulated article, "Are you a practicing communist?" and began to look carefully at my situation, I realized WE all practice communism whether we'd like to admit it or not.

Boohoohoooooohooooooo.

- Peter.

" REDICULOUS Customer NO SERVICE" I don't give service to : REDICULOUS Customers, either. :D

Oh, Swell !
 

Now you're making fun of me because Ah Kain't spel gud :P .

husky man, please don't put your dishonest alt-right political remarks here, save them for that forum .

Obviously you know nothing about communism except the basic truth that's it's bad and cannot ever work any where, any time .

That doesn't mean you can lie about it .

Folks here try hard to be nice to you and be helpful in addition, you always screw things up by lying and acting paranoid .

I've had some really terrible jobs that were dangerous and paid less than minimum wage but I got by so no boo hoo, you're buying a house in Southern California remember so you have NOTHING to whine about .

I am California homeowner too, a tiny crappy termite infested slum dwelling in the Ghetto but you don't hear ME crying endlessly like you do ~ I worked hard to get what I have and so did you, stop whining .

If anyone doesn't like California, LEAVE - no one forces to to live here , plenty of cheap, nice homes in FloriDUH and with the $ you'll make selling your California land you'll be living large .

Last I checked all the rental moving truck companies had RAISED prices because so many Californians are moving OUT of that place!


California would be a GREAT place to live if it weren't for the current communist regime government.

Recently saw a television show about a US border patrol agent shot and killed by mexican human traffickers along the arizona/mexico border. A few years back, local arizona militias were attempting to stop the human sex traffickers from crossing the border into Arizona. It was working fairly well until the FBI swooped in and arrested the militias.

There is only ONE explanation; someobody somewhere (george soros?) is benefiting big time from the importation of criminals from south of the border.

Your tax dollars not working so hard......

FOLLOW THE RULES PLEASE !
 

" California would be a GREAT place to live if it weren't for the current communist regime government. "

STOP husky man ! you're trying to hijack my thread and also plainly breaking the rules by putting your political rants in the wrong forum .

There's a certain demographic that gets those phones, and I'm not part of it.

Further, almost no one is paying for those phones with cash. They are trading in older phones and going on payment plans through their network. Heck, my last phone was something like $450 new and I had it tacked to my bill for $13 a month.

The often heard complain of "these young kids needing their X for so many thousand dollars don't know what suffering is" is worn out. I remember hearing about young folks spending too much on Starbucks and avocado toast.


And finally, bums with cell phones? What will the world come to? When a bum can afford a track phone? They aren't as expensive as you think. Your criticism reminds me of someone decades ago complaining that homeless man had cigarettes. As if his choice to afford cigarettes made it clear he had enough money for a dwelling. I'm not sure solvency has any effect on currency. The value of the dollar is in the guarantee of the US government to continue to exist.

And might I point out that the vast majority of the national debt is owed to us? We could certainly pull another trick with a new round of quantitative easing and declare the debt nonexistent.

I'm on board with not spending more than we take in, but I'm not sure I'd get a bunch of support for reduced military spending and higher taxes.

Right. So the tax cuts that the Republicans pushed through are..... sound? Care to source that with anything close to being credible?

husky man Lying Yet AGAIN
 

Of course he can't give you any proof, he just makes things up on the fly or repeats known falsehoods .

Don't forget : he lives in Commiland Kalifornia so he must be a Commie too, right ? .

I'l support any increase in our military budget that goes directly to soldier wages and / veterans care / benefits .

The value of the dollar is the guarantee of the US Government's ability to PAY its debts. That is what solvency means, whether backed by collateral or by faith. We dropped collateral a long time ago and now rely on faith...based on the power thru taxation to Take from others. We are now spending considerably more than we take in or can even project taking in. As such, declining faith in OUR ability to pay off our increasing debt, directly translates into a declining value of our dollar i.e. long term inflation, and it is accelerating due to the spending programs under discussion.

As faith declines in our ability to repay our debt, the FED must entice new lenders by offering higher interest rates, exacerbating the debt ratio even further, leading to even more erosion of currency value.

One only needs to take a look at the US debt charts to realize this is unsustainable. In the past 20 years we have added 3x the debt to our books than the totality of debt accumulated in the prior 220 years. This is not sustainable. We have a spending problem, and we cannot cure a spending problem by spending more.

Just my $0.02

Take a careful look at the front and back of a federal reserve "note". Notice the words "Money" are no where to be found. Next, look up the word "Note" in both a legal dictionary and a regular old webster's dictionary. Evidence of DEBT?

NEWS FLASH: A "Debt Instrument" is a straight liability on the books.

so....when you are at your local store and whip out a Federal Reserve "Note", you aren't PAYING. You are simply trading one debt for another. A hot check may have more value than that worthless paper you carry around in your wallet......

My simple explanation is just that; there are several well written books on the subject of the so-called "Federal Reserve" (hint: it isn't federal and there sure as h aren't any RESERVES) that go into much more detail. Of course, reading a large volume book requires some of your valuable time and IMHO, the majority of people don't care to take the time to read a book that directly relates to their current financial situation.