Originally Posted by 1MOSES1

I understand covid and part disruptions..but no money is inexcusable. poor money and employee management. It wasn’t a demand problem…very unfortunate for customers.

Originally Posted by LaRea

My friend successfully picked up my drive at the shop today. If anybody reading this needs to pick up a drive, be prepared to wait.

Originally Posted by River Rat 164

I'm not here to bad mouth George because he is a very knowledgeable guy and seems like he does good work when he does it. Sent him my blackhawk to just fix what was broke so I can test on a new hull, heard nothing productive for over a month then a yes $6500+/- and he will fix it. I said no I don't want to build a bullet proof drive only repair the broke. Called me back a month later with a $2,600 +/- price. At that point I said yes let's do it! And sent the money. Two months go by and I blow a bravo, call him for status update and get the "almost done story" I said stop (even though he never started) and put the money and parts into this bravo because I need it repaired more than a test drive. That was mid January 2022. Late January I send the bravo to him and $6,000 to keep hearing 'almost done, almost done' time and time again. Finally pulled the trigger early July and had him ship it all back. Over about a year and a half and $8,500+/- I I am stuck with two drives completely stripped down on pallets. They said they will reimburse me over several months minus the cost of tearing down the drives and shipping, not willing to meet in the middle or budge one bit. I hope I get my money back, ya'll be safe out there and be careful with all the BS we are going through these days. Gone this helps

Originally Posted by cheech

Yeah! It's a downright Shyster move to continue to take on work and WORSE money up front when all those stated out of business reasons were more or less right out in front after an amount of time from when all that Covid crap started.
Contingent on the family emergency maybe.

Originally Posted by Panther

I'm sorry to see about George. I used to get some hard to find parts from him here and there and a few towers installed in cases. When I spoke with him during Covid he had like 100 drives he couldn't get parts for. For me, during Covid I stopped taking drives in, period. If I knew I couldn't get the parts I didn't bother taking on the work or even a deposit. I just simply walked away from the work because I didn't want to deal with the BS. Drive work is great summertime work for me but 21/22 I didn't even bother with it. In some cases it took almost a year to get backordered gearsets. Sad state of affairs. He probably got too far behind, had loads of expenses and couldn't ever catch up. Probably a prime candidate for a Covid loan if he had access. Sorry to hear about all this. frank @ fumarine.net

If you're local to northern MD, I can help with drive repairs. However, I do not do out-of-state repairs that require shipping. Drop off and pickup only.