Combat Chuck
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Erie, PA
1 edit | reply to Yowzaaah
Re: Its not a "scam"
I don't believe that was what was happening in this case as this was a small ticket item, under a dollar each, there were only 100 or so (some sort of cheap screwdriver like tool, with a tip that looked like it was designed to break off, almost like a small shim) and it only happened once or twice in the 6 months I worked there. We purchased other stuff for them from other companies (nothing not related to what we sold; usually parts for older equipment that they had previously purchased from other competitors) so it's not like our sole purpose was to sell them back their merchandise. My suspicion, based on the way we worked their orders and how specific GM was in general about how you could ship stuff to them, was that it was a pain in the butt for their maintenance department to open purchase orders and it was easier for them to just buy most of their stuff from us in massive orders because most of what they needed was from us anyway.
From my end it was a pain in the butt to deal with them, so much stuff I ended getting returned because the PO# wasn't written with a fine tip black sharpie in characters exactly 1.3 +/- 0.001 inch tall, and I did not include 4 copies of the packing slip in the following colours (peach, periwinkle, lt. blue and orange) printed on 19 lb. stock in an approved shipping container with an edge crush strength of at least 30psi but no more than 35 psi... and on and on and on.
But I guess I could be partly responsible for inflating Delphi's sales by ohhh say $40.
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