*bitch mode on*
Okay, so I got married on Saturday (no I’m not bitching about that) and I wanted to have a special surprise for the reception. Being into motorcycles, and my now wife getting into them too, I thought it would be cool for us to leave the reception on my bike. Good idea, except I only have a solo seat. Not a problem, I was in charge of the budget for the wedding and reception so after we got everything planned out I was able to get some money to buy a new seat. Now with the planning and all I wasn’t able to know until a couple of weeks before the wedding whether or not I could get the seat. No problem though, because I went in and ordered the seat and they said they would get it in a week. Now I order it from Spokane Yamaha. So a week goes by and I get the call, it’s in come get it. I did, with a few days before the wedding. Now with it being a surprise, I couldn’t just go home and throw it on, I had to wait a few days until I was alone. I finally get a chance to unpack it and put it on and I find out that the rear bracket for the Yamaha Dual Touring Seat is not included. The directions state that you need to take the rear bracket from the stock back pilon and use it. What the hell kind of crap is that?! They are assuming, first off, that you got the bike with the stock seats and that you still have them. My bike came with the Custom Stiletto Solo Seat which has a DIFFERENT rear bracket. So I find this out Friday night, I’m getting married on Saturday evening. I’m thinking, okay I go to the dealer tomorrow and they’ll help me out. WRONG!! I go to the dealer, tell them my tale of woe, and they basically say fuck you. They can order me a bracket for $7, but it will take a week to get it. I explained it was my wedding day and couldn’t they just give me a bracket from one of the floor models and then they can replace it with the ordered one. Nope, again, fuck you. They called the owner, a guy named Skip, and he says no. So by this time I’m getting very pissed off and some other service geek comes over. I tell him the deal, you sold me a seat that is useless. He says he’ll go see if he can find some tear down seat or whatever the hell it was. I see him walk over to the other side of the store, talk to good ‘ol Skip and then pick up the phone. He calls the teenager working the service desk and has him tell me no. What a chicken shit. Needless to say Spokane Yamaha is worthless. As far as Skip is concerned once he’s got your money you can bite his ass. So if you live in the area, I highly caution you about buying from them as they are not will to work with you when a problem arises. I buy a $600 seat from them and they won’t even work with me on my wedding day to accomodate for a $7 bracket. Fuckers. I’m working on my letter to the Yamaha corporate office right now. Probably won’t get anywhere with it, but it’ll make me feel somewhat better.
*bitch mode off*
