Just got my the fax I sent this morning returned with:
It will be there Friday #1ZAE13XX124XXX7251 UXX
Signed Belinda
It was unreadable, so I sent it back and asked that it be written more clearly, or with a pen, not pencil (I could read the rest of the Fax I had sent this AM very clearly)
No response yet, so I started playing with the numbers, filling in the blanks on the UPS web site, and I got lucky:
TRACKING NUMBER STATUS
1. 1Z AE1 380 12 4178 725 1
Billing
Information
Received *
Shipped to: MILPITAS, CA, US
Service Type: 3 DAY SELECT
So, "It will be there Friday" on the fax, and 3DAY SELECT on the UPS site mean to me that the wheels were shipped today!!!!!!!!!!
What lying blankety, blank, blank........
I will NEVER purchase from Compomotive again.
The fax is dated and timed 03/11/2003 16:22
I had sent this email seven minutes eariler:
Subj: Compomotive wheels-USA distributor
Date: 3/11/2003 4:13:14 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Medusa427
To:
sales@comp.co.uk
Hello,
I ordered 15" replicar Halibran pin drive 8" & 10" wheels from your distributor:
MotorSport Specialties
435A West Fourth Street
Quarryville, PA 17566
800-621-8408
I ordered these wheels approximately 10 months ago for a Factory Five Cobra Replica with IRS(not that odd a setup, I doubt that I am the first to order this setup). I ordered from a local "distributor" for Motorsport...California Custom Cobras.
The rear wheels came with the wrong backspacing/offset.
I shipped them back, and when Cal Custom Cobras and Alan of Motorsport could not seem to connect Alan told me: "it's not rocket science, just measure from the outside of the fender flare to the wheel mounting surface and subtrack 1", and I'll take it from there. I did that and phoned him with the measurement...the wheels came back to me a second time, again with a backspace/offset that would not work on my car.
I then took it upon myself to decide what the measurements should be. I again shipped the wheels back. They are done according to Alan....see attached email I sent Alan this AM:
Alan,
I have sent you two faxes in the past two days, made numerous phone calls requesting the tracking number for my wheels that we had agreed on Feb 20th, 2003 you would 3 day air mail on Monday Feb 24th, 2003
When we spoke on March 05,2002 you stated that the wheels had been shipped ground 7 to 10 day delivery. I asked if you had shipped on Monday Feb 24, 2003 as we had agreed, you stated you did not know when the wheels had been shipped, and that you had not shipped 3 day air because you had lost money on this sale.
It's not my fault you lost money on this sale, I did not define the Backspace/offset the first two times the wheels were made wrong.
I have given you my fax number, my email address, my message phone, my cell phone, yet you still fail to contact me....WHY?
PLEASE CONTACT ME OR CONSIDER THE ORDER CANCELLED!
Wayne McAllaster
427SSSS
Medusa427@aol.com
I just thought you should know, as you are the parent company, what kind of "service", I (and others I have talked to since this fiasco has blossomed) have received.
IF the wheels were shipped, and arrived today, I doubt I would use them on my car.
Wayne McAllaster