CLX odyssey begins.... now!

[tsv_1]

Todd,

Any news? suspense.........

Have you heard that song "I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas"? I'm starting to think that'll be me. My dealer has yet to respond to a voicemail I left him yesterday. I'm sure there are good reasons for the tumbleweeds, but it's more than a little annoying at this point. Contact pressure goes way up tomorrow.

What's the 411 on your end?

 

[User211]

Sorry to but in but it's now obvious what CLX stands for:

Clearly Late and eXpensive!

Never fear - everything comes to he who waits.

 

[timm]

Have you heard that song "I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas"? I'm starting to think that'll be me. My dealer has yet to respond to a voicemail I left him yesterday. I'm sure there are good reasons for the tumbleweeds, but it's more than a little annoying at this point. Contact pressure goes way up tomorrow.

What's the 411 on your end?

How about u tell him you are going to post his name and store name on this thread and also send a note to Justin? Maybe that will put a fire under his a$$. Still think he is demoing them.

 

[tsv_1]

Sorry to but in but it's now obvious what CLX stands for:
Clearly Late and eXpensive!

(good one actually, wish I'd thought of it)

btw, this just in from my dealer:

"Todd sorry speakers are ready to leave we had a bunch snow monday and truck did not show up they came tuesday when we were closed so it should be getting on tjhat truck today if not tomorrow I will personally bring it to them"

I can only guess what the next delay will be. You guys all have great imaginations. Why not turn my unpleasantness into some jolly good fun... come on, you know you want to. Here, I'll start:

"Todd sorry but we were told that the truck made it to within a mile of your house and then had to return all the way back to Chicago due to it being Wednesday and all"..

come on... let's have it...

 

[Necrosuit]

Yea, same here. Supposedly the CLX are on the way to my dealer from Canada now, with a promise of quick flipping to me when they arrive.

Yes here we go:

"Sorry Todd,
your CLX were shipped to the wrong person named Pete, As the trucker pulled up to his house a Snow Thunder lghtning bolt hit a nearby tree causing a Rare but angry nesting bird to swoop down, crash through his window and attack the driver which caused him to drive through Pete's house and destroy your CLX and his Spires"

 

[Bernard]

Todd, I suggest that you tell your dealer to not give up his day job; he would make a poor replacement for Seinfed.

 

[User211]

Maybe Clearly Late eXpletives would have been more appropriate, come to think of it.

Nevermind. Think of it this way - if they don't turn up - and they will today or tomorrow - then at least you won't be obsessed with them over Xmas and actually get some time with the familly rather than sit in front over them all over the festive period!

Pros and cons to everything.

And when they do arrive - well, all the excitement goes! That said, it gets replaced with the kind of aural satisfaction not many have the priviledge of owning.

It's all good. It's win - win. You cannot lose!

 

[tsv_1]

Yea, same here. Supposedly the CLX are on the way to my dealer from Canada now, with a promise of quick flipping to me when they arrive.

Yes here we go:

"Sorry Todd,
your CLX were shipped to the wrong person named Pete, As the trucker pulled up to his house a Snow Thunder lghtning bolt hit a nearby tree causing a Rare but angry nesting bird to swoop down, crash through his window and attack the driver which caused him to drive through Pete's house and destroy your CLX and his Spires"

Yes... I can absolutely see that happening. It seems entirely more plausible than the various incomprehensible delays we've met with to date.

 

[tsv_1]

Todd, I suggest that you tell your dealer to not give up his day job; he would make a poor replacement for Seinfed.

You mean my soon-to-be-former-dealer? Yes, he will feel the dizzying blow of my discontinued patronage.

 

[tsv_1]

Maybe Clearly Late eXpletives would have been more appropriate, come to think of it.

Nevermind. Think of it this way - if they don't turn up - and they will today or tomorrow - then at least you won't be obsessed with them over Xmas and actually get some time with the familly rather than sit in front over them all over the festive period!

Pros and cons to everything.

And when they do arrive - well, all the excitement goes! That said, it gets replaced with the kind of aural satisfaction not many have the priviledge of owning.

It's all good. It's win - win. You cannot lose!

I appreciate the bright-side presentation. And the Maggie designated hitters aren't really all that bad (not unlike Charlie Brown's unfortunate little tree) - very little blood oozing from the ears so far. Though I'm not sure MORE family time is always a good thing (fortunately though, the in-law factor will be surprisingly lean this year - hurrah!).

In the end, if my tribulations are of even minimal enjoyment to others, then it will all have been worth it. Wait, what?

 

[User211]

You mean my soon-to-be-former-dealer? Yes, he will feel the dizzying blow of my discontinued patronage.

Apologetic dealer: "Allow me to be the first to offer Todd my most sincere contrafibularities! I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulation."

 

[tsv_1]

Apologetic dealer: "Allow me to be the first to offer Todd my most sincere contrafibularities! I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulation."

Ahhh, taken from another of Edmund's more memorable quips

Here's another exchange that brings an upward curl to the lip:

Blackadder: This is the Jane Harrington?
Percy: Yes.
Blackadder: Jane 'Bury Me in a Y-Shaped Coffin' Harrington?
Percy: I think there may be two Jane Harringtons -
Blackadder: No, no.. Tall, blonde, elegant..?
Percy: Yes, that's her...
Blackadder: Goes like a privy door when the plague's in town?

 

[tsv_1]

How about u tell him you are going to post his name and store name on this thread and also send a note to Justin? Maybe that will put a fire under his a$$. Still think he is demoing them.

He shipped the F112's as though delivered by fighter jets - I have to give him the benefit of the doubt that the CLX delays are based in fact. If he is demoing and I get them in like-new condition, hey, at least they'll have been burned-in a bit. At any rate, he knows my displeasure is growing exponentially now, so hopefully he'll be hyper-attentive to the issue. The other thing I know to be true with this dealer is, as I mentioned somewhere up above, he deals in volume - and I know he's juggling many, many balls (even while he has mine clamped in a vice). I'm not making excuses for him (perish the thought) - just trying to look at the larger picture.

If he eff's up again and the speakers don't ship this week, more drastic measures await. :devil:

 

[Bernard]

Apologetic dealer: "Allow me to be the first to offer Todd my most sincere contrafibularities! I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulation."

Justin, you are a sophisticated rhetorician, intoxicated with the exuberance of your own verbosity.

 

[Wardsweb]

Speaking from experience, it will all be worth it. It took months to get my Prodigy's. It too was in winter and had delays due to snow, due to frieght company's warehouse supervisor being on vacation, due to needing bigger pallets, due to having the base bins boxes manufactured and shipped to Martin Logan...etc...etc...etc... Even with all this Jim Power was "The MAN!" He was in constant communication and always nice during my many calls and emails.

Hang in there. Good things come to those who wait...and wait...and wait

 

[timm]

He shipped the F112's as though delivered by fighter jets - I have to give him the benefit of the doubt that the CLX delays are based in fact. If he is demoing and I get them in like-new condition, hey, at least they'll have been burned-in a bit. At any rate, he knows my displeasure is growing exponentially now, so hopefully he'll be hyper-attentive to the issue. The other thing I know to be true with this dealer is, as I mentioned somewhere up above, he deals in volume - and I know he's juggling many, many balls (even while he has mine clamped in a vice). I'm not making excuses for him (perish the thought) - just trying to look at the larger picture.

If he eff's up again and the speakers don't ship this week, more drastic measures await. :devil:

All I can say is your family has this forum to thank.... I can't imagine how you might have blown off this steam otherwise...(Do you have a dog???) Anyway - Justin - very very funny..... Maybe it is just everyone named Justin - The other great laugh I had recently was when Justin from ML pulled the Joe Peci Goodfellas line '....like funny Ha Ha or funny like a clown?' during the very serious thread about panel discontinuation.... That was incredibly hilarious and I note it here....

 

[tsv_1]

The other great laugh I had recently was when Justin from ML pulled the Joe Peci Goodfellas line '....like funny Ha Ha or funny like a clown?' during the very serious thread about panel discontinuation

Agree - that was a curiously skewed comment from someone in his position. I suppose even the most consummate professional's veneer will crack revealing the black, seething torment within when faced with the inescapable cage-match that is this forum

 

[tsv_1]

What the...???? It's here, it's here!!!

Oh, wait, no... thats a TV console unit I also ordered over a month ago

In this case, the local freight company called me this am with "we have it, we're about 5 miles away, we'll drop it off on Monday"... yeah, right. I drove down there and picked it up just now. And guess what? Only two forklift slice-holes through the box... that doesn't seem so bad. At least it still looks like a box, right?

... The night terrors are getting more severe... (shudder)

Update: the two major holes on the box exterior led to no apparent damage to the cabinet just inside... but wouldn't you know one end of the cabinet was pierced by a forklift arm (apparently) in an area that didn't even appear to have any serious box damage. Now that's interesting. Well, back it goes. I would buy something local, but the wife really liked this model.

Should I roll the dice again and re-order?

 

[User211]

I'd say something amusing but this really is going beyond all reasonable limits. WTF? Incredible...

 

[tsv_1]

I'd say something amusing but this really is going beyond all reasonable limits. WTF? Incredible...

That's not even the half of it... we had a new propane gas fireplace installed on Tuesday (all pre-measured and assured accurate by the installer)... and of course the trim kit doesn't fit. So now we have a very industrial looking situation in our family room, just in time for our holiday guests to admire and covet.

I could go on about other headaches and measures of half-assedness - but it's really all quite tiresome at this point. I don't wish to subject everyone here to the seemingly unending parade of shite service we seem to be overly subjected to lately. One of these days I'll go under deep hypnosis to find out just what sort of murderous cad I must have been in a former life.