[Jewelry making - Article 00345] - Re: [Orchid] Good Vendor/Bad Vendor? was: Anodized aluminum disks

[brian]

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    We too have experienced 'small company problems' with Metalliferous.
    Our shipments (to New Zealand) are held up for weeks. When I ask
    about this the owner tells me frankly my small orders are a waste of
    their time as they have to specially go down to the local post office
    to ship it. So they put an order from us aside until they get time to
    do that. This while they claim to be an international vendor. 

    Once when an order was so long in arriving I asked by email that
    since it was required urgently now, could they please use a courier
    rather than Airmail. Their reply was "What's a 'courier'?" OK so
    maybe Fed-X and UPS are not 'courier companies' in the States like
    they are here, but was that so indecipherable? 

    Another problem we've experience on more than one occasion is faxes
    not getting through to them while my fax records a successful send.
    This also happens to me when I fax Rio. I resolved to email all my
    orders and send a follow-up soon after. 

    However much we experience problems, I do believe in giving these
    vendors ample opportunity to clean up their act. Often it's fixable,
    and staying with a vendor that has pledged to improve is probably
    better than trying to find another. 

Brian

B r i a n   A d a m  
SUMMER 2002   -  C A N A D A   -  U S A 
http://www.adam.co.nz 

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