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He could ride it to school. On Wednesday
Only if he can get it built up with the correct parts
The twonk is going away for Easter
And Easter is a moving target so it does make planning a nightmare
#prayforcyclelife
#notyetgotacyclelife
I think Yodel shut early for Easter too 😉
The OP's bike is with Parcel Force, pay attention at the back 😉
The OP’s bike is with Parcel Force, pay attention at the back
Are you sure? Is he sure? Are CRC sure and, more importantly, is the CEO sure?
Only if he can get it built up with the correct parts
He’s got that all covered.
For all those naysayers out there, the parts are all here (correct sizes) ready for the build
Naysayer!
He could ride it to school. On Wednesday.
I hope he hasn't forgotten to order the stabilisers
I hope he hasn’t forgotten to order the stabilisers
Of course he hasn't. Mummy has ordered them for him, but she's fed up with this awful service from CRC so the order has gone to Wiggle.
I'm more than happy to provide the afternoon entertainment boys 😉
Bez, yep very good. 🙂
The chances of any corporate CEO handling customer complaints personally is somewhere between “slim” and “none
completely unrelated to this topic, I had problems with my broadband, and after 3 months of being messed around by BT I emailed, politely, the CEO of BT and CEO of Openreach on a Sunday. Within an hour I'd had responses from both, copying in their "senior service people" or somesuch, and it was sorted within days. So it can work. Cool story, huh!
On the other hand, if I'd emailed them within 5 minutes of placing the order and before it was supposed to be installed..probably not so much.
Cyclelife is winning me round by still responding to this thread. Many lesser members would have flounced off ages ago.
I emailed, politely, the CEO of BT and CEO of Openreach
A friend did the same. He ended up speaking to a real person (yes, I know!) who said they both have a specialist team within customer care who deal with direct emails to them on the basis that customers who bother to send them emails are already pissed off and not got where they want through the usual channels. So, yes, with BT/Openreach it's likely to work if it's a genuine long reunning problem.
I emailed, politely, the CEO of BT and CEO of Openreach on a Sunday. Within an hour I’d had responses from both, copying in their “senior service people” or somesuch, and it was sorted within days. So it can work. Cool story, huh!
Yep you got their admin/CS team on another line
Cyclelife is winning me round by still responding to this thread.
I'm waiting for the "New Bike Day" thread next Tuesday before I make my mind up 😀
Rest assured I will post pictures, hopefully on Friday, of the fully built bike.
Rest assured I will post pictures, hopefully on Friday, of the fully built bike.
Well played!
The chances of any corporate CEO handling customer complaints personally is somewhere between “slim” and “none”
We’ve come close enough. We had a below par stay at quite a nice, newly refurbished hotel for a family do with six of us staying there (Bovey Castle) so Mrs Kilo emailed them to comment on this and received a rather poor dismissive reply. She somehow found a personal email address for the then owner Peter de Savaray so escalated the matter somewhat by emailing him to complain about the original stay and the crappy reply. As a result his p.a then rang her, from the Caribbean on a Sunday evening, to apologise and offer us a free weekend back at the hotel.
As a result his p.a then rang her, from the Caribbean on a Sunday evening, to apologise and offer us a free weekend back at the hotel.
And I'm absolutely sure none of the hotel staff would have been spaffing in your food. Absolutely not.
Any friends you could borrow one from?
Somehow I doubt it 😁
I will post pictures, hopefully on Friday, of the fully built bike.
Bez, that bike looks ready to be packed for holiday. Perfect.
Rest assured I will post pictures, hopefully on Friday, of the fully built bike.
Could I suggest you cut your lawn, paint the fence and repoint the patio while you're waiting for the frame to arrive? It'll make Friday sooo much easier for you 😀
Many lesser members would have flounced off ages ago.
that bike looks ready to be packed for holiday. Perfect.
*unpacks bike at destination*
"Damn, no cranks, mechs or shifters. On the plus side - two wheelsets."
Rest assured I will post pictures, hopefully on Friday, of the fully built bike
Please do.
I'm enjoying this so far, I'd hate it to end too soon.
I ordered something off CRC last week on standard delivery.
Next day I get a mobile call from our Hermes driver at 8 am checking he knew where I was (rural location). I was going to be his first drop he said.
9.30 I got an Email from Hermes saying courier would be with me between 9 & 11. Courier eventually turned up at 11.30.
1.15 pm I get a 2nd email from Hermes saying there is a delay and my courier would be with me between 11 & 1 pm (I already have my parcel!)
4.15 pm I get an Email from CRC saying "your item has been dispatched" and giving me a tracking number!!
Nah, one of these
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/time-fluidity-aktiv-frameset-2018/rp-prod186599
In large? Now out of stock.... hope they posted you the last one
Rest assured I will post pictures, hopefully on Friday, of the fully built bike
I hope the garden is sorted, you did order a new lawn mower and hedge trimmer didn't you.
Rest assured I will post pictures, hopefully on Friday, of the fully built bike.
But you haven’t even got the frame yet. What’s your bosses email address?
🤣🤣🤣 @ thepurist
Don’t forget the law of sod…
If you order something you don’t need for a few weeks then it will generally be at your doorstep before you leave for work the next morning and there will be no issue with the contents of the box.
If you are in a hurry and select express delivery, something funny happens. I suspect Yodel and CRC can sense your urgency and have a “special” delivery option for this. It will take 23 hours 59 mins of the allotted 24 hours to pick your item from the warehouse, it then gets handed to Yodel for their 48 hour delivery.
Yodel will aim to deliver it somewhere in your neighbourhood (up to you to find where because according to the card, it was left in the porch you don’t have) in 47 hours and 59 minutes, that takes care of the 48 hours to deliver deadline.
But because this is urgent, Yodel bypass the normal rule of abandoning the parcel if your neighbours wheelie bin on bin day and wait for you to get in the shower or have a dump before silently sneaking up the driveway and putting a “sorry you were out card” through the letterbox before running down the drive, diving through the door of the idling van and setting off at 90mph. Obviously with the phone off so they cant be contacted.
He will take the long route back to the depot so you cant collect before closing time that evening. When you try and collect first thing the next morning, nobody will be able to find the parcel despite it being a massive F-off bike box, after 40 minutes of standing around waiting for Jackie to read the label on all the letters and amazon parcels, they will tell you that it was loaded back on the van and will be with you today. You rush home to play the waiting game again (while needing a dump or shower but not falling for that one again).
The good news is you manage to catch the driver this time by sitting at the end of the drive flagging down every van going near your road. Bad news is the frame is the wrong colour but its OK, Yodel will collect this one in 48 hours and CRC will send you another
This +1
CRC can be properly infuriating these days, but I think Amazon prime has spoiled me. They are quite useless at getting things out on time as well, stuff eventually comes but I've found the free delivery (if I end up making multiple orders) usually arrives before the fast track paid ones hahaha!
In general though, I think the quality of delivery services has dropped massively these days. My Commencal frame turned up totally opened, the delivery company or customs had opened the box by snipping each of the large staples and rifled through the contents! They had then failed to reseal it! Luckily nothing was damaged.
It's an ass, when you spend a couple of grand you expect a decent service like you would get at a shop - or at least people who didn't grow up in the age of next day delivery. But delivery companies and online retailers often employ the lowest common denominators and cut as many corners as they can to make a profit - especially when they are trying to compete with Amazon. I know everyone loves to hate Amazon, but I'd switch to them for bike parts tomorrow if they stocked a decent range of stuff. Your part is faulty? You get sent a replacement, without even talking to anyone on the phone, just a simple click online and then you have 30 days to return the old one. Hugely helpful over the phone as well, located a missing parcel for me and had the depot get it to me by the end of the day!
Hopefully that level of service can become normal, with sensible working hours and decent pay - I'd quite happily pay a premium on delivery for it.
Bez wins the internet for today.
Yes and he owes me a new keyboard too, mine has tea all over it now.
Bastard.
How soon do you need it…?
Did anyone ever get the CEOs email? Im fuming and need to let them know this is not on.
I ordered a set of SRAM X1 cranks on Sunday evening, didn't pay for fast delivery or anything and the cheeky buggers only went and shipped it yesterday.
Not only that, but my postie had the gaul to deliver it to my door this morning.
And, you're not going to believe the stunt they've pulled, they've sent the carbon cranks instead of the alloy ones advertised.... Fuming I tell ya!
my postie had the gaul
Your spelling is Obelix.
Ha, I took a punt with the predictive text.... Rookie error
And, you’re not going to believe the stunt they’ve pulled, they’ve sent the carbon cranks instead of the alloy ones advertised…. Fuming I tell ya!
Shhhh.
Don't go admitting the amount of free shit CRC accidentally give away, their managers will cotton on and ruin it for all of us.
Your spelling is *****.
FTFY
Yeah, I did ponder that route, but it'd have looked like I was being abusive rather than being a smartarse 🙂
This thread! 😀
What frame have you ordered OP? Specialized AWOL?
Bez
Subscriber
my postie had the gaulYour spelling is Obelix.
Do you mean Asterix? Speaking of Asterix's(should that be Asteri? **** I don't know) Is veryone getting email warnings about them like I did last time I used them?
Lovin this thread.
Do you mean Asterix?
No. Asterix doesn't sound anything like bollix.
Well that all clearly fell flat on its arse, I'll get my menhir.
Should've been 'a load O'belix'.
Could have bought a frame from SICK!!
This could have been brilliant.
Oh goody a “will it” “won’t it” thread my favorite 🙂
Could have bought a frame from SICK!!
This could have been brilliant.
Oh hai! What are you doing here Phil? Lost? Thought you didn’t post here? Posting about your favourite subject I see? (After someone else made the same joke...)
From: Chris Watson
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 4:59 PM
To: xxxx@googlemail.com
Hi Rob, just picking this one up now. First off, I'm really sorry that we have messed up you order on this one. The responses below to your requests are also less than satisfactory. I'll chase up now and make sure this gets resolved to your satisfaction.
Apologies again,
Chris
So I'll just leave the above email (genuine) here...sent to me on a bank holiday.
Who’s Chris Watson?
The OP? 😁
Former owner/MD of CRC. Before wiggle and the venture capitalists took over.
Blimey if it takes 5 years for an email to arrive what hope is there for the OPs frame?
Well due to all your "well wishers" support and prayers I have a tracking update - UK hub, looking promising 🥂
Tomorrow: Parcel Force - Bosses email anyone?
So CRC are not actually the scum of the earth ?
due to all your “well wishers” support and prayers
…and the fact that we’re still well within their scheduled delivery period…?
I have to say I’m now riveted!
#prayfortheop
Well that all clearly fell flat on its arse, I’ll get my menhir.
No, it was very good. Too good for most on here, including me.
"Pearls before swine" as Ceopatra's taster said.
Sorry, Goscinny didn't give him a name.
Tomorrow: Parcel Force – Bosses email anyone?
😀
due to all your “well wishers” support and prayers
Yeah... see I was kinda praying that it wouldn't turn up on time, just for the LOLs you know. This thread's gonna die a dull death if the bike gets built up as planned in time for the holiday.
So, is that tracking number live yet?
This party isn't over until the frame is delivered, bike is fully built, working and in use on holiday. Plenty of mileage left in it yet
4 pages? For nothing (yet)? This thread is amazing.
This thread’s gonna die a dull death if the bike gets built up as planned in time for the holiday.
If that happens I suspect we have three pages of gloating by the OP to look forward to.
Blimey, four pages! But this-
“A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”
pretty much.
This party isn’t over until the frame is delivered, bike is fully built, working and in use on holiday.
Plus discussion of tyre logo - valve alignment, colour coordination of bike and components, cable routing, and state of lawn/garden/living room etc.
Congratulation OP for getting a frame dispatched well within the delivery timeline yet still ranting about it.
I on the other hand ordered a full bike on 05/04 in the hope of receiving it before Easter but it hasn't arrived yet even though it said 'Lead time: Available for Dispatch in 7 days'.
Finally found out what was happening today, via a polite phone call to the customer services department of the company I'm buying from (not CRC/Wiggle).
Turns out it's still in the middle of the Atlantic on it's way to the docks and I can expect delivery w/c 06/05.
Fair enough, I can wait - have another bike I can ride in the meantime.
Don't see the point in ranting and going off on one before the predicted delivery date though.
Is it wrong that I’m living in hope that the OP has the wrong crown race or something?
Op, can we have the tracking number? Just for our own entertainment 😁
The CEO is my neighbour. I'd go for customer service first.
Where is an Asterix meme generator when you need one?
Is it wrong that I’m living in hope that the OP has the wrong crown race or something?
You're a terrible person 😆
Sweepstake? Who had #3 - 'no rear hub adapters to fit the frame'?
I’m going for:
Parcel Force damage frame.
Or
Frame arrives without the mech hanger
My money (and recent experience) reckons the wrong brake mounts
I'm going for back brake hose being too short
The CEO sacked yet? Interview with the OP for the Daily Mail yet?
Bent Mech Hanger 10-1
Wrong Size 8-1
Wrong Colour 5-1
Dented top tube 3-1
Left in a layby outside cleethorpes - 7-5 favourite
Yep something brake mount related.
I've just fitted some old brakes to a new frame and was convinced I had everything to fit, nope! Needed a longer bolt for the front adaptor. Luckily there's plenty here at work so I didn't need to trouble STW for the personal email address of the CEO of SRAM 😉
I am going with paint rubbed out by the frame serial number.
You lot really are a bunch of arses 😍