Ordering non-Halfords bikes from Halfords on the cycle 2 work scheme...

[Al C-F]

druidh wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> PUSHERBOT wrote:
>>
>>> b) Halfords don't sell Trek bikes, ....
>>>
>>> Ah.. but they do! Not sure which model but my local one has one of
>>> the Trek hybrids in stock and it appears in the parts catalogue they
>>> have in the shops. So, probably not the model you want but at least
>>> they are already dealing with Trek.
>>
>>
>> Cool - what store is that? I'm based in south-east london and have
>> recce'd a few halford stores - they seemed to stick to their
>> Apollo/Carrera range mostly, with a few Raleigh thrown in...
>>
>> Roberto
>
>
> You can't go by what's in store. They can order up almost anything for you.
>
Unless it's a Brompton.

 

[Al C-F]

Alan Braggins wrote:

>
> On the other hand if it's 7.30pm and your lights have failed/been stolen/
> been vandalized, or some ******* has kicked your wheel taco shaped while
> failing to break open a lock, or a piece of glass has just ripped a large
> hole in your tyre, Halfords will be open and the LBS generally won't, so
> even **** Halfords have their uses.

Agreed.

Distress purchases 'R' us.

 

[Tony Raven]

Al C-F wrote on 14/07/2006 17:57 +0100:
>>
>> You can't go by what's in store. They can order up almost anything for
>> you.
>>
> Unless it's a Brompton.

Including a Brompton. I know I've done it. The fact that you got
caught in the early days is unfortunate but they did get it sorted when
the pressure was applied to them.

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

 

[Tony Raven]

Al C-F wrote on 14/07/2006 17:53 +0100:
>
> Which saves Brompton from having to deal with car accessory shops and
> the thumbless animals in their 'bikehuts'. They're just dealing with
> the finance end of the deal.
>
> I bet you have to order the bike yourself from a tame shop.

Nope. Faxed off the spec of a custom Brompton to Halfords and picked it
up about four weeks later as sped'd from Bikefix in London - at a time
that people were talking of 12 week waits.

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

 

[Al C-F]

Tony Raven wrote:
> Al C-F wrote on 14/07/2006 17:57 +0100:
>
>>>
>>> You can't go by what's in store. They can order up almost anything
>>> for you.
>>>
>> Unless it's a Brompton.
>
>
> Including a Brompton. I know I've done it. The fact that you got
> caught in the early days is unfortunate but they did get it sorted when
> the pressure was applied to them.
>
Pleased to hear it. Now if they could just explain the lying...

 

[druidh]

Al C-F wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote:
>> Al C-F wrote on 14/07/2006 17:57 +0100:
>>
>>>>
>>>> You can't go by what's in store. They can order up almost anything
>>>> for you.
>>>>
>>> Unless it's a Brompton.
>>
>>
>> Including a Brompton. I know I've done it. The fact that you got
>> caught in the early days is unfortunate but they did get it sorted
>> when the pressure was applied to them.
>>
> Pleased to hear it. Now if they could just explain the lying...

It has to be lying, doesn't it? Couldn't be " a mistake" - oh no - then
you'd have nothing to get on your high horse about.


druidh

 

[Al C-F]

druidh wrote:
> Al C-F wrote:
>
>> Tony Raven wrote:

>>>
>>> Including a Brompton. I know I've done it. The fact that you got
>>> caught in the early days is unfortunate but they did get it sorted
>>> when the pressure was applied to them.
>>>
>> Pleased to hear it. Now if they could just explain the lying...
>
>
> It has to be lying, doesn't it? Couldn't be " a mistake" - oh no - then
> you'd have nothing to get on your high horse about.
>

A specific criticism of poor quality control of parts supplied to
Brompton being used to justify the non-delivery of a bike?

When the truth is that they cannot source these bikes directly and their
black-marketeer got found out and his supplies dried up.

I can see how these two explanations are close enough to be easily confused.

Especially by Halfords.

 

[Alan Braggins]

In article <[email protected]>, Al C-F wrote:
>
>A specific criticism of poor quality control of parts supplied to
>Brompton being used to justify the non-delivery of a bike?
>
>When the truth is that they cannot source these bikes directly and their
>black-marketeer got found out and his supplies dried up.
>
>I can see how these two explanations are close enough to be easily confused.
>
>Especially by Halfords.

http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/html/delivery_times.shtml

Unless Ben @ Kinetics is also lying, which I doubt, Brompton really did say
"A significant number of the goods we are receiving from suppliers have
failed to meet our quality expectations" as part of an explanation of why
delivery times are longer than they planned (now 16 weeks).