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Hombre0321
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You know guys over the past two months I have had the worst luck in the world trying to hire "Anyone" to do just about "Anything". Or sometimes in just trying to purchase things.
I was building me a combination Man Cave and reloading room. It is an addition to my shop. I got the slab poured and the addtion itself up and in the dry. I contacted 14 different drywall Co's to install the sheetrock tape and bed. I everycase all of those 14 Co's were simply not able to even go to work for 14 weeks or more. The cabinet guy wanted 6 months lead time. This at a time were I see that construction workers unempoyment is 28%.
It's not just that addition but I am finding this in almost every field. trying buying a custom action for one of our rifles. lead times are in months maybe even Years, same with barrels. I needed to order some custom bullets for my 30br. I have called all of the custom makers and have sent e-mails. Over the past month to 6 weeks I have not recieved a single e-mail response. My phone calls also have fallen on deaf ears as none of them has answered the phone a single time.
I needed to purchase a new set of tires for my Dodge Dually. That truck takes six tires and they cost right at $200. a tire. At the same time I was also going to purchase a set for my wifes Chyrsler another $800 or so thats a total of around $2,000 for the two sets of tires, CASH. I went to three local tire shops and in each case the told me they would need to order them(I can understand that) one shop said three weeks, the other said 10 days to 2 weeks. The third wanted them payed in advance before they would even order them. One more phone call and a place about 50 miles away said "I'll have to order them but they will be here in the morning, needless to say they got my business. If one of these shops can get them overnight i believe they all can. So what is up with that? Maybe my cash money just wasn't green enough for them.
This past week I was looking to buy a new truck. Not just any truck but a custom built Ford F-650. I owned one of these a couple of years ago and always regreted selling it, they are a Monster pick-up and are relativly rare and hard to come by, and with very---VERY few customers out there for them. I have been looking for one for about a month. I had a couple of requirements, it had to have the C-7 Catipiller Diesel and a Allison Automatic 6 speed tranny, leather, Bluetooth and navaigation. Tuesday last week I found two of them that fit the bill. One was in Houston 780 miles from me, the other was in Lima, Ohio about 560 miles. There wasn't any difference between the two other than color. The price was within a $1,000 between the two. I decided on the one in Lima, Ohio simply because it was closer.
On this particular truck I found ads from the dealer in Lima on the net going back to March ( as I said there are not too many customers for these trucks) so this company had, had this truck for awhile. i called we struck a deal, I told him I would be driving up there on Friday. I was going to send him $10,000 to hold the truck and seal the deal. Then this guy says " We close at 4:00 so you need to be here early enough to get the paper work done". I understood that but in a tongue in cheek way I commented " Well you would stay late an extra "HOUR" to sell this truck wouldn't you?" His instant remark was a quirt "NOPE". After a further talk I found that he was dead serious he told me he wouldn't stay late 10 min.
Needless to say by late Thursday night i was driving, not to Lima, Ohio but to Houston.
I see on the TV and hear on the radio were so many Companys are having such a hard time getting customers to spend the money. They are laying off, going out of business. So I have to ask Is it the economy? Or maybe is it them?
Roland
I was building me a combination Man Cave and reloading room. It is an addition to my shop. I got the slab poured and the addtion itself up and in the dry. I contacted 14 different drywall Co's to install the sheetrock tape and bed. I everycase all of those 14 Co's were simply not able to even go to work for 14 weeks or more. The cabinet guy wanted 6 months lead time. This at a time were I see that construction workers unempoyment is 28%.
It's not just that addition but I am finding this in almost every field. trying buying a custom action for one of our rifles. lead times are in months maybe even Years, same with barrels. I needed to order some custom bullets for my 30br. I have called all of the custom makers and have sent e-mails. Over the past month to 6 weeks I have not recieved a single e-mail response. My phone calls also have fallen on deaf ears as none of them has answered the phone a single time.
I needed to purchase a new set of tires for my Dodge Dually. That truck takes six tires and they cost right at $200. a tire. At the same time I was also going to purchase a set for my wifes Chyrsler another $800 or so thats a total of around $2,000 for the two sets of tires, CASH. I went to three local tire shops and in each case the told me they would need to order them(I can understand that) one shop said three weeks, the other said 10 days to 2 weeks. The third wanted them payed in advance before they would even order them. One more phone call and a place about 50 miles away said "I'll have to order them but they will be here in the morning, needless to say they got my business. If one of these shops can get them overnight i believe they all can. So what is up with that? Maybe my cash money just wasn't green enough for them.
This past week I was looking to buy a new truck. Not just any truck but a custom built Ford F-650. I owned one of these a couple of years ago and always regreted selling it, they are a Monster pick-up and are relativly rare and hard to come by, and with very---VERY few customers out there for them. I have been looking for one for about a month. I had a couple of requirements, it had to have the C-7 Catipiller Diesel and a Allison Automatic 6 speed tranny, leather, Bluetooth and navaigation. Tuesday last week I found two of them that fit the bill. One was in Houston 780 miles from me, the other was in Lima, Ohio about 560 miles. There wasn't any difference between the two other than color. The price was within a $1,000 between the two. I decided on the one in Lima, Ohio simply because it was closer.
On this particular truck I found ads from the dealer in Lima on the net going back to March ( as I said there are not too many customers for these trucks) so this company had, had this truck for awhile. i called we struck a deal, I told him I would be driving up there on Friday. I was going to send him $10,000 to hold the truck and seal the deal. Then this guy says " We close at 4:00 so you need to be here early enough to get the paper work done". I understood that but in a tongue in cheek way I commented " Well you would stay late an extra "HOUR" to sell this truck wouldn't you?" His instant remark was a quirt "NOPE". After a further talk I found that he was dead serious he told me he wouldn't stay late 10 min.
Needless to say by late Thursday night i was driving, not to Lima, Ohio but to Houston.
I see on the TV and hear on the radio were so many Companys are having such a hard time getting customers to spend the money. They are laying off, going out of business. So I have to ask Is it the economy? Or maybe is it them?
Roland
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