Well what do you know? I finally get someone on the phone that knows how to provide good customer service. I originally asked for a supervisor but I briefly explained my problem and mentioned that this is going on a year in a couple of weeks. She put me on hold for about two seconds and said "This is ridiculous! I'm just going to issue you a credit. I don't know why anyone hasn't taken care of this for you before". :dueling: done!

It's finally a relief to have this taken care of. Thanks for all the advice.

Way to go, good for you. An email or phone call to her supervisor might be the right thing to do for her help and common sense in resolving your dilema.

It has been my experience that the true measure of a company is not how they go about being an "order filler", but how they handle the rough spots in the road when they inevitably show up.

The question that ALL customer service reps should ask is "What can I do to resolve the problem?", and then just to it.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Congrats!

:thumbsup: Absolutely. Praise the young lady for her swift and customer service oriented actions!!:thumbsup:

You really needed to get a delivery conformation. Eckler's probably gets hundreds of packages a day. Easy for something to get lost or go wrong.

...Not sure who YOU are, but if your post either presents yourself as "being local" and perhaps "know the management" or "just passing through the area". If the case of the former why not just point him to the CS manager, the Sales Manager, the Wholesale Manager or get in contact with the Eckler's personnel and send them a link to this post??

The original poster lives a few hours away and I'm sure if he wanted to "cruise over here to fix the issue" he would have done so in the last year.

I apologize I haven't logged into this site in a while...if I had a few days ago I could have helped you resolve your issue by getting the right person involved. I don't know who you spoke with previously or why they didn't escalate it. I will pass this on to a few of the supervisors there so they are aware of this situation and can find out and address where the breakdown occured. Hopefully in the end alleviated someone else from experiencing what you experienced.

At time I wonder with all the vettes around the country and out of country...and taking into account all of the other corvette parts reataielrs out there...How many people order parts from Eckler's on a daily basis. It seems any given day there is delivery truck after delivery truck. Semi's dropping off and picking up from the warehouses. RPS moving pallets. Multiple UPS and Fedex trucks. Looking at the warehouses it wouldn't *seem* like they have THAT many parts, but they they constantly have a LOT of volume going in and out DAILY. That said...I can see how something could get misplaced.

On the otherhand, typical the sales receipts have a return form on the back. The original poster said he wrote a letter, but did not indicate whether or not he included the order number. Keep in mind, returns don't go to someone sitting at a desk. They arrive at the warehouse. The warehouse personnel opening a package with two items and a letter may have something to do with one (RA for the mask), but no order # for the sills. The person in the warehouse may not have the capability to look up your name and search through your orders to find when you bought the sills. So it moves to someone else or another pile or stack so someone can look it up-or it can go to someone to look it up. When you call someone in the sales office or customer service they don't see it returned, they probably called someone in the warehouse who checked such a pile or bin for those category of returned items and didn't find anything...so then it becomes a research issue. If the order number was included or you had an RA for both items, then this is a mute point.

Also, if your returned the one item for warranty repair work, your package may have simply arrived at Eckler's and been forwarded to whoever the vendor was....

Personally, I have ordered from Eckler's several times and never had any problems at all with my orders. Every retailer has problems now and again. The larger the volume, the more chances for that to happen. One out of one thousand transactions going bad isn't so bad if your volume if just 500 packages a year. But if you are talking about 200,000, then the odds are that there will be 200 screw ups to contend with. :shrug01:

Hi everone. Timing is everthing. I too have had a very recent experience at Ecklers that I was very unhappy with. I sent an email to them and when I got no response, I posted it on the C-5 forum as ELTRONVETTE on Corvette forums.com last week. It is based on my observation and my experiences and my expectations. Apparently I'm not the only one unhappy.