Killman77
当有疑问时踢你的敌人在生殖器上，你可以道歉后
Okay, so I'm kinda cheesed off, thought I'd look for some perspective before I lose my cool.
I took a couple of seats into the new local vintage shop to have seat covers installed. I've been in a couple of times now, the upholstery guy is less than friendly, but I figured if he did great work then I can put up with the attitude.
He called me today to tell me that the foam was for shit on one of the pans that I brought him, (fair enough, it was, and I appreciated him calling me to discuss the situation before racking up extra costs) so I brought him another seat pan with better foam.
Here's where it started to get a bit dodgy. He had one of the seat covers installed already. When I checked it out, there were huge dead spots where the cover was stretched out about an inch above the foam. In my mind that means that it's going to get stretched out, wrinkly, and more prone to catch on something and tear. My analogy, (probably a poor one) was, "What if I accidentally sit on it with a wrench in my pocket, or something? With a snug fit, and foam under it to give a bit, it's less likely to tear." His response was to not do that, and then he kept muttering like I'd mortally offended him or something. He showed me another bike in the shop, which had a seat in the same condition, saying, "That's upholstery."
Now I brought the jobs to him because he's supposed to be a professional with years of experience. Showing me two bikes with bad seats doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
When I brought up the fact that the original covers fit nice and snug, he responded that these were just covers that I had brought in, (the implication being that because he hadn't custom made them himself, I should expect an inferior job, I guess). Okay, so I asked him what it would take time and money-wise to shape up the foam to get a decent fit. All I got were defensiveness, excuses and borderline hostility. He made a big deal out of telling me, "Absolutely no guarantees here, this is like trying to bring a corpse back to life!"
WTF? I mean seriously, the dude's supposed to be hot shit, this is two seat covers we're talking about here, and I've already told him that I'll pay extra to make sure the job is done right.
Now there aren't a lot of options out here, but I'm not exactly feeling the love, or confidence in the service. Obviously it's another skill I'm going to have to learn for myself, but right now I just wanted to pay a pro to get the job done right. With any luck they'll be done tomorrow, but now I'm worried about riding with the things in case I stretch them out beyond another upholsterer's ability to make them look decent. Obviously I'm going to pay for the work he's done so far, but it pisses me off to think I'm probably going to have to try and find someone else to fix a hack job.
So if anyone's got some decent advice, let me hear it, because I'm less than thrilled. I'm also not looking to get a rep for being a difficult jerk to deal with in this tiny city, but at $60/hour I'd like a good job done.
I took a couple of seats into the new local vintage shop to have seat covers installed. I've been in a couple of times now, the upholstery guy is less than friendly, but I figured if he did great work then I can put up with the attitude.
He called me today to tell me that the foam was for shit on one of the pans that I brought him, (fair enough, it was, and I appreciated him calling me to discuss the situation before racking up extra costs) so I brought him another seat pan with better foam.
Here's where it started to get a bit dodgy. He had one of the seat covers installed already. When I checked it out, there were huge dead spots where the cover was stretched out about an inch above the foam. In my mind that means that it's going to get stretched out, wrinkly, and more prone to catch on something and tear. My analogy, (probably a poor one) was, "What if I accidentally sit on it with a wrench in my pocket, or something? With a snug fit, and foam under it to give a bit, it's less likely to tear." His response was to not do that, and then he kept muttering like I'd mortally offended him or something. He showed me another bike in the shop, which had a seat in the same condition, saying, "That's upholstery."
Now I brought the jobs to him because he's supposed to be a professional with years of experience. Showing me two bikes with bad seats doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
When I brought up the fact that the original covers fit nice and snug, he responded that these were just covers that I had brought in, (the implication being that because he hadn't custom made them himself, I should expect an inferior job, I guess). Okay, so I asked him what it would take time and money-wise to shape up the foam to get a decent fit. All I got were defensiveness, excuses and borderline hostility. He made a big deal out of telling me, "Absolutely no guarantees here, this is like trying to bring a corpse back to life!"
WTF? I mean seriously, the dude's supposed to be hot shit, this is two seat covers we're talking about here, and I've already told him that I'll pay extra to make sure the job is done right.
Now there aren't a lot of options out here, but I'm not exactly feeling the love, or confidence in the service. Obviously it's another skill I'm going to have to learn for myself, but right now I just wanted to pay a pro to get the job done right. With any luck they'll be done tomorrow, but now I'm worried about riding with the things in case I stretch them out beyond another upholsterer's ability to make them look decent. Obviously I'm going to pay for the work he's done so far, but it pisses me off to think I'm probably going to have to try and find someone else to fix a hack job.
So if anyone's got some decent advice, let me hear it, because I'm less than thrilled. I'm also not looking to get a rep for being a difficult jerk to deal with in this tiny city, but at $60/hour I'd like a good job done.
