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<blockquote data-quote="blacksheep10" data-source="post: 87576" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Honesty. JJ hit it. </p><p>I am vending the ORI's. the lead times are out of control right now. Reason is Mark bought a new huge ass lathe with an auto feed and loader and all the bells and whistles and ****. took their whole machine shop apart, cut the power, had company come in and train. I was telling people 6 weeks lead time before that. Man, he shut down production and lead times were in limbo. I had a couple customers that were calling every day and saying wtf, 8 weeks on a 6 week lead time. I was passing along what I was told. Each time I answered the phone and was completely honest. Mark is just now getting going again, and it was hard to answer the phone and say sorry, I don't have your **** like I hoped, and I don't know what else to tell you. </p><p>To his credit, if I call him at 10 at night, he is still at the shop turning out parts and is 100% candid with me every time on whatever I want to know. I try to pass that on. One of the other vendors is telling people 4 weeks when I'm saying 9 right now. I'm realistic and he wants to say he has them on the shelf (not physically possible after Nov.). I've lost a lot of business because of telling people the truth. Its worth it. I don't have to lie up front and lie when it doesn't happen like I said. </p><p>Jim, selling parts would suck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blacksheep10, post: 87576, member: 13"] Honesty. JJ hit it. I am vending the ORI's. the lead times are out of control right now. Reason is Mark bought a new huge ass lathe with an auto feed and loader and all the bells and whistles and ****. took their whole machine shop apart, cut the power, had company come in and train. I was telling people 6 weeks lead time before that. Man, he shut down production and lead times were in limbo. I had a couple customers that were calling every day and saying wtf, 8 weeks on a 6 week lead time. I was passing along what I was told. Each time I answered the phone and was completely honest. Mark is just now getting going again, and it was hard to answer the phone and say sorry, I don't have your **** like I hoped, and I don't know what else to tell you. To his credit, if I call him at 10 at night, he is still at the shop turning out parts and is 100% candid with me every time on whatever I want to know. I try to pass that on. One of the other vendors is telling people 4 weeks when I'm saying 9 right now. I'm realistic and he wants to say he has them on the shelf (not physically possible after Nov.). I've lost a lot of business because of telling people the truth. Its worth it. I don't have to lie up front and lie when it doesn't happen like I said. Jim, selling parts would suck [/QUOTE]
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