peter d
Senior Member
- Location
- New England
Here is an example of the added costs and Peter D can remember this one.
I ran a retail store fit out, it had about 550 - 8' fixtures. They supplied them, they shipped them to the store. Our contract required we inventory them immediately and report any problems. If we did not we would be responsible for any shortages. Sounds fine to you realize they shipped the fixtures on different trucks on different days, in different stages of assembly, under different part numbers. Also all the mounting hardware came just as mixed up It was a couple of days of to figure it all out. Their supplier does not care how bad it hurts the EC and we have no leverage with them. Their supplier only cares about keeping this national account happy.
They also supplied 'knock off' plugmold that fell apart as you installed it. Normally we would ship them back to our supplier but in this case we just patched them up and installed them.
I do remember all of those fiascos, the fake plug mold being the worst. I don't think I've ever installed an electrical product that awful since. :happyno: