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Date:         Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:21:56 -0500
Reply-To:     Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Has Parts Place Improved?
Comments: To: "VintagePkr@AOL.COM" <VintagePkr@AOL.COM>

I doubt it.

Search the archives under "Parts Place" and (not kidding) "Farts Place". I don't know that their products were the problem, they have mediocre customer service, reinforced by a return policy designed during The Inquisition.

G. Matthew Bulley Bulley-Hewlett Corporate Communications Counselors www.bulley-hewlett.com Cary, NC USA 888.468.4880 tollfree

"I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained, et cetera, et cetera . . . fax mentis incendium gloria culpum, et cetera, et cetera . . . memo bis punitor delicatum!" It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! -Wonka

-----Original Message----- From: Keith Olsen [SMTP:VintagePkr@AOL.COM] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:40 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Has Parts Place Improved?

Hi, We were discussing this on the diesel list and I wanted to get opinions from this list too. Last week I received a Beefy catalog from the Parts Place and it seems like a place I would normally do business with. The whole thing seems to be brimming with happy VW karma However......I have heard their catalog is the only cool thing about them. I have heard that they never have the recycled item at the recycled price in the catalog (at least the people I've talked to) I have called them on a few occasions to get a recycled part and ended up getting a new or rebuilt one from one of our online suppliers for less. ie diesel motor parts from Jack Ewalds Diesel Shop or a rebuilt Vanagon Auto trans from Weddle engineering were both cases where the price of rebuilt was equivalent to their used prices. I have checked their catalog from stem to stern and I see no mention of a website or even an e-mail address (also I noticed in some fine print that the prices in the catalog were current as of 1/1/1999! this was the Catalog I got last week. 1/5/2000. ) An oversight? Y2K bug or just a way to get out of honoring the published prices? In 2000 how could a company not even have an e-mail address for ordering never mind a website, especially when the inventory is comprised partially of (supposedly) good used material which is available in limited quantities? Go figure. anyhow, with that rant out of the way, I would like to hear some feedback from people both pro and con who have had dealings with them. My experience has not been recent, and the black marks on their record on the Vanagon archives have been there for a while. Have things improved? Thanks Keith 85 golf diesel 82 vanagon L diesel 87 vanagon wolfsburg 79 loaf


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