Dominant1
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China makes the lids?.. wow can we get anything to be made in a America? Makes me wonder if China is stamped on any of my Procharger parts.. not that I’m aware of..
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You ordered December 4th?I just checked my UPS account and mine left Whipple today. Exactly 15 weeks since my order was placed. I should get it next Wednesday!
Nov 27thYou ordered December 4th?
For the amount of money these cost, seems like a poor business model to expect a customer to wait this amount of time. Slightly ridiculous actually, some of the wait times posted in this thread. Maybe some of it is out of the sellers control, my question when you purchased was it stated a wait turn time of this length?
I can't say that I disagree. Not too many businesses charge 100% upfront before they even put your order in the queue. I have been in manufacturing my whole career and even our cash in advance customers were not required to pay until the product was ready to ship.For the amount of money these cost, seems like a poor business model to expect a customer to wait this amount of time. Slightly ridiculous actually, some of the wait times posted in this thread. Maybe some of it is out of the sellers control, my question when you purchased was it stated a wait turn time of this length?
I get it, but it seems to me with all the small business struggles the past year when orders are coming in you either hire more people, or establish a hard delivery date which it appears neither were applied if dudes are still talking about Holiday orders still not shipping. I can’t think of another/similar process in a performance industry you slap down that type of cash only to see the product at your door in a few months. Like right now with the next round of stimulus money coming I’d front load products in anticipation of sales increasing simply due to people blowing it on car upgrades....Did you miss the post from Beefcake? His quote is below and that's just the Black Friday sales.
"talked to whipple today, they expect to have all black friday orders by the first week of march out. over 600 orders came in over 4 days, the majority of those being mustang / f150 gen 5 kits, and they simply cannot build the cases quick enough".
I get it, but it seems to me with all the small business struggles the past year when orders are coming in you either hire more people, or establish a hard delivery date which it appears neither were applied if dudes are still talking about Holiday orders still not shipping. I can’t think of another/similar process in a performance industry you slap down that type of cash only to see the product at your door in a few months. Like right now with the next round of stimulus money coming I’d front load products in anticipation of sales increasing simply due to people blowing it on car upgrades....
Yeah, I think its a frustrating combination of all factors. High demand, limited materials and with them being in Cali, maybe a bit of labor limitation too. I don't know how many they typically sell over a holiday sale weekend but if they did get 600 BF orders, that could be overwhelming for a production staff used to making far less.My take on it is, with high demand, I don't think that they can ramp up production that quickly. I waited 6 weeks, pre covid, for my system. Now with covid, I can understand 2 to 3 months wait time. If their product wasn't so good, they would have inventory just sitting on the shelves. Just be patient and you'll be rewarded with a quality product.
Yeah, I think its a frustrating combination of all factors. High demand, limited materials and with them being in Cali, maybe a bit of labor limitation too. I don't know how many they typically sell over a holiday sale weekend but if they did get 600 BF orders, that could be overwhelming for a production staff used to making far less.
Based on the info I'm reading here I'll be lucky if i get mine in 4 months time.