FedEx and the Car Parts

smaller.fish

5 pointssmallerfish3 comments

Long before FedEx even enters the story, I feel that "ditch the lemon car (and mechanic) and find alternatives" would have been a better move.

Buying parts that dont fit the car and blaming the mechanics... sketchy. Did the mechanic check what he was signing up to replace? "He'd rebuilt them before"... but mistakenly ordered OEM parts for what was now a home rebuild of non-stock parts in the first place?

No. One would take pride in bodging those back into shape with a rebuild, not forget it had happened.

Yeah, I should have done both. In retrospect, Bossman is a legit confidence man. I've got another post that I will possibly get finished over the holidays about him. Local Facebook groups have angry ex customers posting regularly about how they were ripped off one way or the other by him.

Hindsight is always 20/20; but hey perhaps there's a bright side: you're now an extremely qualified international shipping troubleshooter. Perhaps others would pay for that service.

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