3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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So Close, and yet so far away!
I sweet-talked a local Pep Boys into shipping an Elim3000 from Ohio to their store in the Detroit area. I picked it up last Tuesday, drove home, and pulled it out of the box. Bits of broken plastic in the box led me to look further. I found one the mounts had broke loose (broke the casting). My guess is someone dropped it in shipping. I loaded back up and drove back to store immediately and got my money back. I had to fly out of town for the rest of last week. I called the store yesterday to see if we could try again. Manager said they could not do that again, as there was high likely-hood of damage.
He did offer to give me raincheck on price w/ no time limit, if they get more in. I am pretty disappointed at the moment. Almost drove to Cincinnati to get one yesterday, but $100 gas kind of defeats the savings. Also, I have been out of town 95% of the time since Jan 12 on business, so I was not anxious to leave home.
Next plan is to wait and see on the Pep Boys deal. If that don't work, I might look into the Checkers auto (but closest is in Milwaukee) or Harbor Freight. My local Costco has not rec'd any of the $280 units mentioned in this thread, but I will also look into that. Costco has been really good about returns when I had problems in the past.
Good luck to the rest of you!
I sweet-talked a local Pep Boys into shipping an Elim3000 from Ohio to their store in the Detroit area. I picked it up last Tuesday, drove home, and pulled it out of the box. Bits of broken plastic in the box led me to look further. I found one the mounts had broke loose (broke the casting). My guess is someone dropped it in shipping. I loaded back up and drove back to store immediately and got my money back. I had to fly out of town for the rest of last week. I called the store yesterday to see if we could try again. Manager said they could not do that again, as there was high likely-hood of damage.
He did offer to give me raincheck on price w/ no time limit, if they get more in. I am pretty disappointed at the moment. Almost drove to Cincinnati to get one yesterday, but $100 gas kind of defeats the savings. Also, I have been out of town 95% of the time since Jan 12 on business, so I was not anxious to leave home.
Next plan is to wait and see on the Pep Boys deal. If that don't work, I might look into the Checkers auto (but closest is in Milwaukee) or Harbor Freight. My local Costco has not rec'd any of the $280 units mentioned in this thread, but I will also look into that. Costco has been really good about returns when I had problems in the past.
Good luck to the rest of you!
