As per the title really.
I have found that some suppliers of parts and services are best avoided and would like to share this info' with my fellow Locosters.
How about creating a section of the website where we can do this?
It would probably just end up full of people bitching like you get whenever anyone complains about poor service from GTS
agreed, it would be the MK lot singing their prases and the GTS lot singing theirs and slating the other.
Would just be a bitch fest and could lead to possible litigation etc for badmouthing a supplier etc etc.
Too many people on here with an axe to grind and are willing to do whatever they can to run certsin suppliers down.
My advice is do your own research person to person with your chioce of suppliers.
Then agree a price, quality, delivery schedule and your order is based upon those specifics.
If your goods do not conform to one of the conditions set out as part of the deal then you have grounds to complain/seek compensation.
Its the only way and make it CLEAR what you expect from the outset and stick to your guns and keep copies of all correspondance and send it by
recorded mail too!
Better safe than sorry / bitchy.
Tricky subject - if something gets posted and that supplier decides he doesn't like it, then ChrisW could end up with a 'remove and
apologise, or get sued' legal demand.
Best to stay with personal word-of-mouth recommendations/opinions, IMHO.
Unless comments were not allowed, and you simply gave a score? But then that would be somewhat open to interpretation. I think the best bet is word of mouth and personal recommendation.
You could just operate a good feedback system in there. Everyone has good and bad experiences with companies but its good for suppliers and buyers to
hear of good dealings.
There would just be very little in the way of good feedback for the persistant poor companies.
How about if you could only create a 'Poll' and thus gave everyone else their chance to influence the result?
Plenty of websites offer 'customer reviews' so the legal issues must be avoidable.
The legal issues certainly are avoidable, but for a site like this one they're just not affordable. Ideally you'd want some proper legal advice about disclaimers and so forth on people's comments not being representative of the site owners etc etc, which will cost you as it's not entirely clear from precedent what the score is yet. And then when you do start getting threatening letters from people's solicitors you need to either pay yours to defend it or just cave in.
It wouldn't be a problem if we could all stick to the simple
1) Would buy from again
2) Would not buy from again
No legal difficulties whatsoever.
Thats no different from a score system really.
lets say i ordered something from Mac#1 and it took ages to arrive but i had ordered it in plenty of time and was in no rush for it.............
Im not bothered by that and would buy from them again.
if you read my 'i would buy from them again' comment and needed a part for your car inside a few days you wouldnt be too happy.
If your going to have a comments section it needs to include the full facts about your dealings not just a blanket statement all IMHO of course!
BTW i have never bought from Mac#1 and as such the above comments are purely for illustrative purposes - no nasty scolisitors letters please 
Bad, and good service should be reported fairly which, od course, is very difficult.
While I see your point locoboy, if I needed the same part, specified I needed it quickly and it didn't arrive when stated, I would select option 2. Ultimately I was just trying to remove opinion.
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Originally posted by SyKaTurbo
You could just operate a good feedback system in there. Everyone has good and bad experiences with companies but its good for suppliers and buyers to hear of good dealings.
There would just be very little in the way of good feedback for the persistant poor companies.