The Yamaha Road Star Warrior Forum

 Went over the cliff. :(

Trying to be helpful went all to heck. As Paul Harvey would have said "and now the rest of the story"

I received the first order toward the end of May and the last of the pieces left yesterday.

Things that went wrong.

Waiting to see if others wanted to piggie back on the order.

Parts not being in stock.

Waiting for enough pieces to make the shippment worth the receivers time.

Me, having to be away for a month

Things that went right.

These were pieces that the US companies wouldnt ship over seas.

Using Paypal

Using DHL

So what have I learned from the process.

I cant ship packages from the US, by doing so I get hit with a tax of the US wanting their money from the sale (though I didnt sell anything). So the shipping has to originate from the receivers side. They also want a piece of the shipping charge (I received no payment for buying and shipping these things)

Even if a company is out of stock I can track pretty much anything down. (went through 3 vendors for Ian Richards)

I dont know if we need to continue this or not, I have let members down on getting parts in a timely maner. I greatly appoligize to them.

I feel your pain brother.

It was a great offer.to help...given in good faith...was never going to be easy and got so much worse...my analogy is 'we can never wait for the builders to arrive and get stuck in..and the day they do is the day we wont them to leave!!'...it so often happens....we make a promise to the future and the future stabs ya in the back.....thanks for trying......as Mike said ...we feel ya pain Scott...still friends i hope!!

 I would imagine you got the parts to them faster than the companies that refused to ship over seas would have.  So everyone should keep that in mind.  I think you tried an awesome thing for them. 

 Of course we are still friends Tom. Cant imagine the amount of crap you guys go through to get parts just seeing what I have seen. Even if I was given grief (which I wasnt) I would still like to call you guys friends.

The stuff is with the delivery courier as of this morning.  You put yourself out for us, just out of goodwill and that is appreciated.  So much for globalisation making life easier hey. Anyway all's well that ends well

 Ian is Jarv still in the UK?

he's here today tuesday only in stevenage with his van but heading back then...he spoke to jools here on sunday and isn't put out having to wait a wee longer for his pressy

Hi Scott,

Cheers all parts arrived here now, Many thanks for your effort.:)

Jammo (Jools)