Eurodrivers $$$ suggestion!

[R_Ethug]

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Absolutely Stefan! PM me for my address please and thanks!

[Ur0Drivr]

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I'm a little late to the party (travelling back to Calgary), but I totally backup Blair and Ryan in what they have said.

The membership fee that I have payed the club has been offset many times over by the amount that I have saved by receiving help and guidance from various club members. I will gladly keep paying the 3 or 4 Starbucks coffee's a year for my membership!

[Canadian Turbo]

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I will gladly keep paying the 3 or 4 Starbucks coffee's a year for my membership!

You need to get a cheaper drink Rod!

Thanks for the opinions, suggestions and continued support everyone!

[R_Ethug]

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Thank you Rod! i was going to post that too.. i spend about 25bucks a week on starbucks! so 20/year for a renewal=pure awesome

[R-Audi]

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+1 for ban!

Hey!

Looks like the mass have spoken, I don't necessarily agree on all levels but it is what it is.
For the record I wasn't suggesting google type ads all over the place, just charging people who actively use the forum to sell.

[R_Ethug]

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Thanks Mark. No worries if the club really starts to grow then I'll speak with vendors/shops to see how they can help out with things.
Like Blair stated having the shops/vendors give us discounts is really a good way to deal with things.

[toplessvw]

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I think that vendors should be allowed to use the forum to sell there wares but as soon as they are shown to be at all shady or unworthy they be banned from selling or advertising in anyway. Until the issue is resolved to both parties satasfaction.
Like in the case of the OP he got screwed by a so called vendor then his post of warning deleted from the vendors thread.

Or a rating system for the vendors where the users can vote and leave feedback of thier experience.

[Natty54]

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Thought I would chime in:

I started on eurodrivers as a member and then switched to a "vendor". To be honest I really do enjoy the community. As you said it is tightly knit. I also enjoy having to talk to fellow enthusiasts about cars. Which I and others could talk about forever lol.

You may think that I may make alot from this site but to be honest I don't. Sure I do make money (other wise I wouldn't be doing this) but not enough to have a budget for advertising. Majority of my customers come from referrals or from Kijiji.

I know for a fact Beyond.ca is $3150 for the year which is something that I could not justify at this point in time. I don't even consider my self as a small business. More of a small small business. OP I can surley see where you are comming from but I am not even big enough to compete with the shops in town.

I see myself more as a member helping other members I guess. There are quite a few members here that I have helped out with parts, advice or even giving them a hand to work on a car.

Also while conducting my business I am also driving new members to this site. Whether it be to look at my reviews, new sign ups or just to browse. So in the end its a win win

[R-Audi]

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Hey Natty,
This was certainly nothing to do with experiences from you, (so no offense at all) but being burned from another person that openly uses the forum to sell items. (Jordan, JAW... terrible and unreliable work)

I'll stick with making anyone who could potentially look to Jordan for products or work aware of how you may be handled and what you may have to put up with!

[longsock]

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Hey Natty,
This was certainly nothing to do with experiences from you, (so no offense at all) but being burned from another person that openly uses the forum to sell items. (Jordan, JAW... terrible and unreliable work)

I'll stick with making anyone who could potentially look to Jordan for products or work aware of how you may be handled and what you may have to put up with!

Please elaborate.

[R-Audi]

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I'll have to start a full thread with details when I get a chance... Basically had him do mechanical work when most of it failed I was told to take it to another shop to fix costing me ~$2,200 out of pocket. No license=no liability!

[longsock]

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I'll have to start a full thread with details when I get a chance... Basically had him do mechanical work when most of it failed I was told to take it to another shop to fix costing me ~$2,200 out of pocket. No license=no liability!

WOW! sorry to hear man. I understand your frustration.

[The_Jerbel]

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Mark,

I won't be posting much about this, as I am very busy, but you and I both know that there's a lot more to the story that you're not sharing. You came to me because of transmission problems, and because you needed an axle replacement. While I had the trans off, I noticed your RMS was leaking, and you said to change it out while I was in there. The transmission repair was successful, and after everything was finished, you noticed some leaking under the car. Having bled the clutch slave, I thought it might have been some pooled brake fluid draining from the crevices of the car. After a while, the fluid kept appearing on the floor under your car, and we decided that it could be coming from the RMS. You explicitly agreed in writing to everything that I did, and the way I dealt with you regarding the RMS, and when you decided afterward that you weren't happy, I did everything within reason to try and make you happy, but at the end of the day, as every business owner knows, there are some customers that you just can't please! Your transmission repair was successful! Go get a quote from a couple of shops to remove, rebuild/repair, and re-install an 01E transmission in a B5 S4, and you'll see that the ~$2400 that you ended up paying isn't all that unreasonable. Especially when you consider that I also did an oil change and coolant flush for that price. The axle is a mystery to me, but since you never gave me a chance to look at it, I'll never know what happened there. It's certainly possible that I made a mistake, as most people do on occasion, but since I didn't see the axle myself, I can't know for sure. I did offer to replace the axle if it was damaged under warranty, but you never got back to me on that issue. I also spent about 5 hours dealing with a faulty pressure plate that you brought me to install in the car, sourced a new one for you from the manufacturer under warranty, and I didn't end up charging you for any of that time or effort. At the end of the day, it sucks that the RMS I installed was faulty, and that I was unavailable to look at it for you, but I think the solution that I provided you with was a fair one. I asked if you would be alright with having another shop look at the oil leak, since you were in a rush to get it looked at and I was unavailable at the time, and that if the RMS was faulty, I would refund you the money I charged to install it (parts and labour), over and above the tranny work. You agreed, and I fulfilled the agreement (refunded $500, more than the $360 I charged for the RMS work). If you hadn't of agreed to that, I would have looked at your car for you as soon as I was available.

As I've said before, I no longer offer mechanical work of any kind, and JAW sells only parts and tunes, so my mechanical service, and what you think of it, is irrelevant at this point.

No sense trying to implement a program on ED that most of the site users are against, just because of a personal vendetta that you have against me.

[BolideVW]

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I've been slacking off on picking up a membership until I had my car paid off. But I guess now that it's paid off I no longer have an excuse. I'll try to pick up a membership ASAP

[Gamman]

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I would pay member fees through PayPal, what is the address

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Burned....terrible and unreliable work
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OP, seriously, how many other places in Calgary provide quality reliable work? Only 2-3 companies on this Site that get mentioned repeatedly have a chance of fitting that bill.
I don't really want to get into this, but we won't be working on supercharging 10+yr old cars because everything will break or need replacing. Things break, sometimes brand new things.
Go to a shop with your used/new parts in hand, Midas, Canadian tires, etc. They won't even consider putting your parts in. Why? Two reasons. Profit is one. That SUCKS. The main reason is because of what happened. Wrong part, hours and delays and passed off customers when it's the customers fault (kind of) for not getting the right part, but customers aren't the experts, so whose fault is it really? The company that took your parts and or that sold them. No one wins.