Ok so here it goes. I'm soooooo angry!! for weeks we've been researching and organising a huge garage to be built on the front of our section and today was supposedly delivery day... but first some background...
We saw an awesome deal on TradeMe for a BRAND NEW, 6 x 9' double garage with a workshop/sleepout on the end. Perfect for us and normally valued around $12,000. It had a verandah over the end room and ranch slider, aluminium joinery and we got it for $8000 using the Buy Now option. We started having doubts when they said it had been partially erected - however we talked to the guy from Versatile who assured us only the wooden supports had been put up before they realised the concrete slab the idiot that was selling the garage had built was the wrong size, and so had chosen to sell the kitset rather than try and fix the slab problem. He also said it had been packed down by the Versatile guys, so was complete and had been stored safely for a couple of months.
Sooooo... what turns up today? well the idiot that was selling it (the concrete slab guy who stuffed it all up) turns up with an incomplete, damaged garage in pieces with no instructions on what it even is supposed to look like, only it wasn't the one in the photo we ordered. No veranda. No aluminium joinery (in fact no door at all for the side room) and had been bent up as they repacked it and squashed it onto the truck. The wood (of which there was only about half) had all be left to the elements so was weathered and warped and there was NO WAY we were paying for it.
The guy from Versatile and this idiot (who was blaming the Versatile guy for supposedly giving him the wrong info - I doubt that very much) had a row over the phone about who was to blame while we said thanks, but no thanks and are now left at beginning all over again.We were going to be giving him a bank cheque so needless to say we're glad he didn't get so much as a deposit.
This has been going on for weeks. Seriously, why is it so hard to buy a garage or get what you pay for?
Vent over.
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So sorry.... but at the end, maybe there is a reason... I know, now you don't want to hear it, but hopefully soon you will feel different...
When you are at the bottom, there is no way but up! You'll see, things will get better!
Glad you vent and I was here to read it!
Gaby www.gabycreates.com
Posted by: Gaby | September 17, 2011 at 07:47 PM
Oh no!!! That is shocking! So glad you hadn't paid anything for it yet!
Posted by: Janine Koczwara | September 18, 2011 at 10:28 AM