An awkward situation with a frame builder

Ha! I ended up buying us a Larry Vs Harry for Christmas! He's busied himself making it ridiculously cool and getting a baby seat to fit into the front bucket. Bless him.

and yes...where is the afternoon grot thread??

Yeah I was tricked into this pathway. I want a refund

Fuck custom buy trekzz

Trek are actually exceptionally great bikes. And specialized and canyon.

If you were coming in here for grot, I think you were hoping to make a deposit, not get a refund...

Would rep.

If you get your framebuilder to build me a bike, I'll tell you who that is. Promise!

I have been trying to get regualr updates like with sending regular emails, but they have mostly fallen into a black hole... and when I do manage to get a reply or managed to speak on the phone, they would then say it's soon so then it would make me feel that things might be back on track again... before I knew it, it's almost 2 years... that bit I admint it's on me, but then I would never have thought comissioning someone to make something is that bloody hard work.

I have been told by my friends of being far too patient with this whole situation, which to be honest, I am not actually a very patient person at all... I don't know why have I allowed this to go on for this long...

LIke I said, somone told this framebuilder about this thread and a few of you already know who I am and which framebuilder I am talking about... anyway, they have since emailed me to say they will get back to me by today to give me a definitive deadline, so I am waiting to see if that'd happen and if so, how far into the future are they talking about... failing that, it would be their offer of a full refund (for the first time as of yesterday), which by the way, I am concerned, although not my problem, how are they going to give me back the whole sum in one go.

For those we have asked why haven't I had a frank conversation with them and set some final deadlines, I have tried and like I said, "a few weeks yet" has been the closest I have been given and maybe I am too trusting when someone says a few weeks, they actually mean a few weeks. Bottom line is, when the ball isn't in my court, there is very little I could practically do...

I would never have thought comissioning someone to make something is that bloody hard work.

Getting anyone to make anything that can’t be bought from a shelf is surprisingly difficult.

Get anyone to make anything that can’t be bought from a shelf is surprisingly difficult

Hey, I gave you daily updates!

;-)

Back out while you can, this is insane.

Has this been resolved yet?

I know it's too early to post that, but as someone was going to post it soon, I just wanted to be the first one.

Name any who isn't!

Immediately.

I have a custom jobby on the go so i do hope its not them ! Not ti though 🤘

That's good, squeezing out a titanium jobby would be pretty painful

titanium jobby

#jobby4life

squeezing out a titanium jobby would be pretty painful

Probably OK if it's nitrided to reduce friction

extra prawn toast

Thread title perfection

Mate I was the perfect customer.

Howard: Make something like that thing you made but with words on it

BN: OK, here you go

Howard: Nice one

BN: That went better than expected

That stem is pretty neat.

If the mystery frame builder is going to give you a definite ETA then the design must be finalised - how long ago was it finalised? Knowing when it was confirmed in the overall order process would go a long way to defining how badly the piss has been taken.

Should we start posting like when there are those super injunctions and people try to give away who was involved.

Dagnannit, who is this elusive builder?

It’s pretty obvious right?

Very