Date:         Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:06:54 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
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From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: eBay Professor for Vanagon parts ...
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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At 10:06 PM 6/25/2007, Loren Busch wrote...
>On 6/25/07, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>So, put succinctly, you do drop ship things without the customer
>>knowing that you do (there's a lot of qualifiers in your statement),
>>and you yourself would not do business with you because of that. Fair
>>enough.
>
>
>Mike, I think you should re read the previous post.  I Got exactly the
>opposite read from it.

Which is exactly what he wanted you to think, with "plausible
deniability." If he never drop ships without telling the customer, he
could have simply said so.

Instead, he said "Everything ... is normally stocked ... with the
exception of ..."

OK, so far, we've learned that not everything is stocked.

He continues: "in most cases it's indicated on the website and when the
customer talks to any of the salespersons."

Now we've been told that for those non-stocked items, the customer is
not always told. "Most" is not "all."

Jim also said: "Full disclosure is EVERYTHING to me...If I can't have
that knowledge, I take my business elsewhere." Hence, my statement that
he wouldn't do business with himself.

Strangely enough, I don't have any problem with a vendor who doesn't
stock items - I'm concerned with performance - are descriptions
accurate, do the pick/ship the correct part, do they ship/deliver
timely, do they provide a means of checking order status, do they honor
their pricing, how do they handle after-sale problems should they
occur?

I haven't seen anything which would cause me to _not_ do business with
Old Volks Home, but do find it a bit hypocritical of them to criticize
another vendor for drop shipping when they themselves do the same.