So the day or 2 before I left for Dumont this last trip I went into this EXTEREMEly overpriced shop here in town on Gibson Rd. It was kinda my last ditch effort to pickup some heal gaurds for my Raptor. The guy (the owner) tells me he has a set but they were for use w/ nerf bars. He said they'd still bolt up to the pegs and probably the frame too. He says gimme 50 bucks and they're yours. I say ok, as long as they bolt up I don't care if the fenders don't bolt to them- I'll rig something up. So I say ok, give him 50 bucks (no reciept ), and I'm off.
So I take them home. I took one of the factory ones off and noticed they didn't even come close. They don't even bolt up the the foot pegs. Today I brought them back to the dude. I say "remember these?" he says yeah. I say "well they don't even come close. I asked if he could order me some that DO fit, preferably the GYTR (Yamaha) ones. He insists he orders me some DG ones for like 140 bucks. I said, wtf the GYTR ones are 89.99 from the DEALER. He pretty much ignores me and says "well here's what I can do. I can give you a gift card for what I sold these to you. How much were they...20 bucks right?" I say "uhhh NO- 50 bucks. Tell ya what just give me 40 bucks back and we'll call it even." He says "since there was no receipt and how WE did that transaction, "THEY won't let us do it that way." WTF?? He's the owner! Who won't let him?
So he writes me a gift card for 40 bucks, not 50 for what I paid. He says is that cool, I said "no not really I want my cash back."He says "you'll need something soon like a tire or tube or something right?" I finally gave up and said yeah whatever dude. I think I can by a quart or 2 of oil from that place for 40 bucks. They charge 7.00 for the SMALL Yamalube 2R bottles. They are EXTREMEly overpriced and don't know how to do business.
Lesson learned: don't shop at a place you know sucks a$$ and is overpriced- even in times of desperate need. :ahhhhh: