Fini,
Per Coen_de_K's post, and as shown on PU's website, he (Coen de Korte Netherlands) is also a dealer for PU. This is even more insulting since CDKN is their European link, along with MINI Mania UK. What a slap in the face!!! In addition, PU has the time to announce another new offer on NAM:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=132417

This is crazy. In PU's announcement, they claim they got an overshipment of lightbars from "Palo Uber London". HELLOOOOO!!! HEY PU, how about helping out your dealer, Coen de Korte Netherlands. You are on the same continent! Maybe that's where your order ended up. The bloody twits in London sent them to the geniuses in Newport Beach, CA!

Coen_de_K you have my sympathies. Perhaps you should consider cutting off the limb to save the body, IMHO.

 

Hopefully PU have finally gone under, they are an embarrasment to the MINI community.

 

mailed again... NO RESPONSE OR WHAT SO EVER!!!

I hate this because it's a company in the states...

WHY WHY WHY!!!!?

 

Is Palo Uber based in the States? I thought they were based in London?

 

I thought so as well.

 

If it's ture, it's sad. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I have my doubts.

 

Palo Uber London
1048 Irvine Avenue, Suite 329
Newport Beach, CA 92660-4602
California...

 

Just received a couple e-mail responses about my perpetual rusty lug bolt problem.

I've been bugging them about this for 6+ months & they said the replacement lugs should arrive next week...

 

Good luck with your lugs. I hope for your sake they are being honest about it.

 

They sent me a replacement set. The rusted as well. That was a year ago...hopefully something has changed since then.

 

Actually, that address is just their "Mail Boxes Etc." drop box. If you look at the address listed on their business license, it's a private residence. I don't know *where* the hell their actual store is, if they have one.

Likewise with their UK address contact information - the address is a Mail Boxes Etc. box, and their telephone number is a cellphone.

 

Ah, as elusive as the great Paulo Uber himself.......

 

This is a vendor that simply buys other company's products and rebadges them. Sometimes they may add an additional step, like spray-painting it black. They most likely keep a very small stock and order in response to a sale. Why would they need a "real" facility? (I think I remember reading that they do have a store somewhere, I believe, in CA, but I'm not sure).

 

I PMed them at this forum.. let's hope I can get an reaction... as a dealer!!!

 

They don't have one that I've read about. I think they may have a small warehouse somewhere, but I don't remember anybody actually finding a store. Their mailing address is an apartment. They are 100% based out of California and are in no way involved with London. So, just for you guys keeping tally at home, they're a company that sell parts designed by a fake artist, from a fake store, from a fake location, on a different continent than they advertise.

 

See my post #36. That address isn't even an apartment, it's a box in a Mail Boxes Etc. store.

 

At least they're consistent.

 

Oh I wonder if they changed it? I could have sworn somebody verified that it was an apartment complex. Either way though...

 

I'm sure that Paulo Uber himself will intercede in this matter as soon as he get's a break in his hectic schedule as an unknown artist....

 

Can the thread name be changed back to "Palo Uber Dead" now?

 

I have searched and searched for the 'history' of Palo Uber here in the UK and have turned up zilch

 

I wonder if NAM checks the credentials of its vendors that they invite to advertise. I also wonder if they, in good faith, will continue to allow them here in light of all the poor customer service we have known PU to give. After all, we as members are held to standards in the form of posting etiquette. Why not the same for these vendors? If they fall below a certain standard/percentage/rating....BOOM...OUTTA HERE! Hard to believe that MINI WORKS and MINI-Madness (although I have had issues with MM on a purchase, but that's another story) scored lower than PU, but everyone else is rated at 8 or above!

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...cat.php/cat/17

Maybe vendors get a probationary period to rectify issues. It sounds simple in theory, and of course it has to be fair to both sides. Sounding like contemporary jargon...we need a NAM Vendor-Member Bill of Rights. Hope that is not too political!

 

PU is a problem that should fix itself. If people don't buy from them, they will go out of business. No need for member-coddling by NAM admins--which, thankfully, they are not doing.

 

No arguments to that point. However, I am not looking for coddling. Just preventative measures so newbies don't get sucked into the PU vortex due to ignorance and before they do any research. You are right, their business should right itself, or pack it in naturally.