Plenter dot com. Penis or genius?

[thepom]

I paid in full...just mentioned maybe he could do something cheaper with the postage.....they were ten dollars worth of nuts....eight fifty postage....obvioiusly a sore point about postage...I,m sure other people will have mentioned it before....its not as though it were in the north island or a rural delivery......big fan of the urban dictionery too...ha ha love the flak....

[thepom]

I only ordered them cos I could not get an immediate answer from trevor pierce untill later....as it turns out Plenter gave me a full refund and parts will be here on monday from the ever friendly Yamaha dealer mr Pierce...and saved eight dollars fifty on postage.....I think Mr Plenter must be genius as to be able to run a business so successfully that he can turn customers away and still charge a criminal amount for postage

[PeeJay]

I only ordered them cos I could not get an immediate answer from trevor pierce untill later....as it turns out Plenter gave me a full refund and parts will be here on monday from the ever friendly Yamaha dealer mr Pierce...and saved eight dollars fifty on postage.....I think Mr Plenter must be genius as to be able to run a business so successfully that he can turn customers away and still charge a criminal amount for postage

When you look at it maybe he was making $5 on the nuts
To save you $5 on postage would cost him 1/2 hr of dicking around
Whats his time worth ? at $10 an hr he is working for free.
If he is worth any more than that the whole episode is costing him money.
He did the right thing, better to make $0 than -$20

[Big Dave]

I vote genius.

[FJRider]

Mr Plenter must be genius as to be able to run a business so successfully that he can turn customers away and still charge a criminal amount for postage

Totally agree ... And he doesn't have to put up with whinging Pom's if he doesn't want to either ...

Will your "Ever friendly Yamaha dealer" ... deliver ... ??? or do you spend your time and fuel to collect ... ??? (unless both are free ... did you save anything ??)

[BMWST?]

I only ordered them cos I could not get an immediate answer from trevor pierce untill later....as it turns out Plenter gave me a full refund and parts will be here on monday from the ever friendly Yamaha dealer mr Pierce...and saved eight dollars fifty on postage.....I think Mr Plenter must be genius as to be able to run a business so successfully that he can turn customers away and still charge a criminal amount for postage

"postage" is probably a courier,for which 8.50 sounds pretty bloody cheap actually

[Woodman]

Unfortunately some guys take it personally when asked if they will give a discount, and this guy sounds like an extreme case. He coulda just explained that the $8.50 just covers his courier charges and then let you decide what you want to do.

[Usarka]

I paid in full...just mentioned maybe he could do something cheaper with the postage.....they were ten dollars worth of nuts....eight fifty postage....obvioiusly a sore point about postage...I,m sure other people will have mentioned it before....its not as though it were in the north island or a rural delivery......big fan of the urban dictionery too...ha ha love the flak....

So you agreed to his offer, and then tried to renegotiate.

Good on him, I would have done the same.

[Madness]

So you agreed to his offer, and then tried to renegotiate.

Good on him, I would have done the same.

It wouldn't work at Countdown. Shop smarter New Zealand.

[spanner spinner]

have been the sender $8.50 will be courier cost which means it will get to you. The only cheaper option would be to send it via snail mail and in my experience after you sent the third lot you might receive your order as NZpost would have lost the first two lots that where sent, and you would save a couple of dollars tops not worth the hassle.

[ducatilover]

I've dealt with plenternz beforeand they seem to have a minimum postage rate, which is fine when you're ordering several parts.

But, when anyone can go buy a bunch of courier bags and keep them at your store/warehouse and make shipping cheaper, I don't see the point.

They've always been good to me though and have some relatively hard to find parts for a few of my bikes and they get them posted up here pretty quick.
But, exhaust nuts? Why don't you just go to a hardware store, or http://tradetools.co.nz/ or any similar group, where they don't charge you a million bucks per 30c part?

[HenryDorsetCase]

I paid in full...just mentioned maybe he could do something cheaper with the postage.....they were ten dollars worth of nuts....eight fifty postage....obvioiusly a sore point about postage...I,m sure other people will have mentioned it before....its not as though it were in the north island or a rural delivery......big fan of the urban dictionery too...ha ha love the flak....

your $2.50 item became $4.50 or something. Even $2.50 seems too much to me. Do you not have duct tape or zip ties in your shed?

[HenryDorsetCase]

I see from your sig line you have hondas an yamahas. www.econohonda.co.nz. www.davidsilverspares.co.uk, www.cmnsl.com are all good sites for parts for old Hondas.

no idea about yamahas but there must be equivalents. Trying to be helpful, since you might have a bike off the road for want of four nuts. (heh heh "nuts" )

[AllanB]

It is high for dispatching 4 nuts.

Presuming they send stuff out a lot he should have a good rate with a NZ courier company - a A5 courier bag would cost half that delevered.

I would suspect he has a minimum cost to cover handling and the likes (still has to find your 4 bolts in the warehouse etc) so it would be better stating there is a minimum charge.

[kinger]

As an expom, I must say, you seem to forget that you're not in UK anymore.
You've lost a supplier and the possible help from him for the sake of a couple of quid.
I'd say he's best shot of your trade..........and whinging.