wilkin, i have great respect for you. ever since i joined this site you have been providing me and others with any information you can on our problems. I'm sure as a moderator, you probably are also a supporter of C&D, but I must say after ordering from them, i will no longer be a supporter of their business, especially after how Colby handled my attempts to cancel my order/return items. After 2 1/2 weeks of waiting, I called several times trying to get ahold of them and leaving voicemails each time. No one ever called me back.(bad communication skills...) After several attempts I left a voicemail stating that I wished to cancel my order for several reasons including the time it was taking to receive my order. I was never told it would take close to a month to receive all my parts. Then about the same time i received my parts, I heard from the machine shop that my head was ruined. A friend of mine(who just placed an order for several thousand dollars worth of parts from C&D) had put my head in a parts cleaner tank and it had eaten away and pitted the aluminum. In defense to C&D they are in no way obligated to make an exception for me or my friend. But if i was business owner, and a customer who ordered thousands of dollars worth of parts called and explained that he had made a mistake and caused his friend (me) to not need the parts he received, I would take them back without charging their ridiculous 25% restocking fee. But, that is not what Colby did, he said he couldn't do that because the policy was 25%. HE MAKES THE POLICIES. He can make exceptions just as easily. I didn't want to return everything, I simply wanted to return what i didnt need without incurring massive restock charges. Anyways, luckily I found someone on here that sympathized with my situation and sold me a head for a decent price. I no longer need to return my parts and everything worked out OK. But just simply knowing that even the circumstances under which I wanted to return my parts didn't make a difference in how it was handled makes me somewhat reluctant to ever order parts from C&D again. Now, I'm not trying to say that TYayo420 is without fault, cursing as much as he has and insulting/threatening people is not how you should conduct yourself on a forum, but I do agree that C&D is not as good of a deal as it is cracked up to be. If I have to pay $10 more on a $250 part and get it 3 weeks sooner, I think i will do that from now on.
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