Am I in a shop or someone's back garage?

[Mom]

UPDATE!!
I just could not trust this guy ...

Good move getting your bike back, I am with the name and shame brigade.

I have an old bike, she is blue, and very lovely. She also has issues from time to time. I have yet to receive anything but total and complete support with my bike at 2 of the 3 shops available to me here in town. The first one did some work on her suspenders, which she benefited from no end, a bit of lateral thinking was applied. She arrived in the workshop complete with the static sag measurements etc written on her legs and the amount of preload required (she has no adjustments) it was not a problem. The second shop I have only bought parts from, but I have had a heap of support and encouragement from instead.

Sounds like this place will not last long.

[CookMySock]

Good on ya. 60bux is a cheap lesson mate. Put it down to experience and move on. Sounds to me like something else has really upset him before you came in. People don't normally go off like that. I expect he will be regretting that.

By the way, my back garage is a hell of a lot more respectful place than that, and I'd hazard a guess if I was helping some bloke work on his bike at my place that sort of carry on would be out of the question by a long shot.

Steve

[pzkpfw]

...and said somethink along the lines of i need to reverse polarity something to test it?

That'll be your flux capacitor, then.

[Owl]

By the way, my back garage is a hell of a lot more respectful place than that, and I'd hazard a guess if I was helping some bloke work on his bike at my place that sort of carry on would be out of the question by a long shot.

Steve

I think I'd take my chances with the grumpy bugger. Isn't your motto deny, deny, deny?

[Jonno.]

Name and shame. Don't feel like you owe them anything, people like this get by stepping the goodwill of others.

[retired motoman]

Yes cheap lesson . Ive had good service from a big shop in parmy, i should
have taken it there. the wife says i was to lazy to load it on my ute .
I really cant understand what his whole problem was, he knows of me from when i raced mx for years , i use to give him custom then and never had him treat me like this. I allways payed, allthou he told the wife i was slow on one account , i no right now it was not 6 months or somethink like that maybe past the 20th of the month once maybe on $100 odd tops.
Trouble with these guys in small towns is soon as they stop seeing you for a long time and had wiff you have been going somwhere else , when you do get around to going back its like, oh what are you doing here, no one else around to help you attiude he gave me. Ive got to bloody laugh , i went in there for a spark plug for our lawn mower a week back, we talked about him looking for a worker , now i hear from the wife tonight he told her i came in looking for a job and was all sweet then. lol , what a clown im a car painter why would i want to work there.

[Katman]

I allways payed, allthou he told the wife i was slow on one account , i no right now it was not 6 months or somethink like that maybe past the 20th of the month once maybe on $100 odd tops.

Opps, are we starting to see another side to the story?

[retired motoman]

Opps, are we starting to see another side to the story?

We are talking at least 2 years ago apart from a lawn mower spark plug .
And oil and the odd part here and there is all i have ever got there , never taken A bike there before. I would have been lucky to have spent $500 in 6 years there. so to answer you , no not at all !! He has never had to chase me for money if thats what your implying .

[Katman]

We are talking at least 2 years ago apart from a lawn mower spark plug .
And oil and the odd part here and there is all i have ever got there , never taken A bike there before. I would have been lucky to have spent $500 in 6 years there. so to answer you , no not at all !! He has never had to chase me for money if thats what your implying .

That's not what your previous post said.

Quite frankly, the fact that so far in this thread no-one has been prepared to consider the fact that there's always two sides to a story stuns me.

[jono035]

That's not what your previous post said.

Quite frankly, the fact that so far in this thread no-one has been prepared to consider the fact that there's always two sides to a story stuns me.

You'll probably find that everyone thought it but noone was about to come out and say it to start an argument over nothing.

[retired motoman]

That's not what your previous post said.

Quite frankly, the fact that so far in this thread no-one has been prepared to consider the fact that there's always two sides to a story stuns me.

Good on ya , someone had to spice it up

If you surgest he had the right to treat me like that becuse of an account i payed off two weeks over the due date that was back at least 2 years ago At least ,then ill be fucked. Ill never be late with a bill again lol.

[Katman]

If you surgest he had the right to treat me like that becuse of an account i payed off two weeks over the due date that was back at least 2 years ago At least ,then ill be fucked.

Suddenly, I'm more interested in what it is you're not prepared to openly admit to.

[retired motoman]

Suddenly, I'm more interested in what you're not prepared to openly admit to.

There are two sides to every story , but when your talking one persons word against onthers all one can do looking in from the outside is decide whos telling it how it is and who is twisting the facts and swinging the ball in there court . All ill tell you mate is ive been straight up on this one , its not my style to do this on a puplic forum but its been good to hear what people think, if i told shit on here about what really went down , im kiding myself and i would not even bother with it .
I Like your siq , very true. I like to look at all the facts first, then if i feel i was in the wrong ill be first to admit it.

[ynot slow]

It's your perogative whether to name and shame,gotta say admire you for sticking to your convictions of not naming,especially if you say no benefit to do so.

[retired motoman]

Bikes over parmy north in a reall shop now that has great customer service.
Its going to be interesting to see just what it is as this prick over here still didint even put anything on the invoice what he had done/tested in an hours work. Got the invoice out of the wifes bag last night , there was nothing to look at , blank with 1 hour labour , I payed for a pile of crap service .
I told him that the r/r are known to go bad on this modal and if its that i have a spare he can test, he didint want to no about any spares i had for it as i noted in other posts. According to him, it wont be that the r/r wont stop it starting . i asked if that was true in the parmy shop, I was told it can stop it firing up as it still goes though it on startup . What a turn up it will be if it is that and will say somthink about how clued up this clown really is, hope it is and my spare is ok , save on the bill