Re: Performance Bicycle SUX?

Jay Beattie wrote:

> "Gooserider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "SaintDan" <dcxdanATwowwayDOTcom> wrote in message
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> > > Hello,
> > > I don't want to bitch too much but has anyone else had
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> problems with
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> > > Performance Bicycle catalog orders.
> >
> > Nope. Performance has always provided exemplary service. I've
>
> ordered from
>
> > them since the 80s and have never had a problem. Top notch
>
> organization....
>
> I'm a Team Performance member! Woohoo!  Actually, with all my
> purchases this year, I have saved a bundle.  I have never had a
> problem with any mail order company unless you consider
> "temporarily out of stock" as a problem.  Then I have had a
> problem with every mail order company including Colorado Cyclist,
> Supergo (even when it was Bikeology in the 70s and 80s -- and
> about the only mail order game in town), Nashbar and Performance.
>
> We have a Performance store here in PDX (actually nearby
> Beaverton), and it is full of dumb youngsters spouting
> misinformation, but hey, the tubes and tires are cheap.  Other
> things are cheap, too, if they are in stock (rarely).  -- Jay
> Beattie.

Frequent complaint of those who work in the shops nearby, they _don't_ 
order, they simply stock what comes in.  Corp. HQ determines what the 
shop needs and sends it to them.  It's pretty freaky and I've been 
disappointed more than a couple times because they didn't have something 
common in stock and couldn't do anything to get it, other than direct me 
to Performance online.  Guess the beancounters are worried that the 
people in the shops might order lots of crap the never sells.