C Body Bob
Old Man with a Hat
On my 66 Belvedere I bought back in August. I've had precious little time to work on it. One of the things I wanted was to sell the bench seat & install a pair of buckets. I got nothing against bench seat. I just installed a nice one in my 66 Polara. On the Bel I just wanted buckets. So I put it up for sale. Lots of tire kickers & people a thousand miles away wanting shipping. No problem I'm use to that. Part of the deal. Finally in early January a guy not too far away sent a msg. He wanted the seat. When can I pick it up. I'm somewhat flexible so I replied what's good for you. He wanted to come during the week in the afternoon. Yet he really wasen't sure about a time or day. Weekend he said where out of the question. So I told him if he paid for it I will take it out & take to a neighbors house who is retired & home most of the day. Just call him & give him a heads up. The neighbor was ok as long as the guy came in a few days. So I told him what the neighbor said Great he said. He paid & said he would pick in up in 2 , 3 days max & would call first. So I took it out & carried it down to the neighbor. A week went by & nothing. The neighbor called & said he had to move it once to get a car in his shop. I told him I would text the guy & see what's up. The guy said he was busy & would come first of the week. Another week & nothing. Neighbor called again. Little more urgent that this seat gets out of his way. So called the guy this time & told him the neighbor was getting antsy. What's the deal. He apologized & again said first of the week. He did call the neighbor Sunday & confirmed a day & time. Well he was a no show. He called me & left a msg to call back. I was right in the middle painting a car & when I got to a stopping point I called the neighbor instead because I was getting a bit tired of the excuses & dont like getting into it with anyone especially a customer. The neighbor said he's heard nothing. So I waited till that night & decided to text. He quickly replied that I can keep the seat & the money. I replied what? And that was it. So I have tried to work with this guys schedule & make it easy for him to come when ever he can. So now I got to pick the seat back up & put it back in the car & try to resale it again. Take it back out. This has kept me from getting my bucket seats ready as I want to paint the floor of the car & clean up any surface rust after I get it cleaned. I dont have anywhere else to put the seat as my shop is stuffed right now. I move a lot of cars & have two that I bought & haven't picked up yet & trip to that demo guys shop to look at his stuff he's threating to throw in the dumpster if I don't come get it. He's been extremely patient too. Now I got to resale this seat.