ARB, TJM or Independants

[growler2058]

See what happens when you spend up mate... you get ARB respond online!!!!

Now all I need is 4wd Systems to fricking get online? I probably have not spent enough for that?

Clearly!!! Spend up tight arse

[TheLocksmith]

Across our network we literally remove tonnes of OEM equipment from customer vehicles each year, most of which is consciously left with us by the customer.

As I've mentioned, all discarded OEM gear is either recycled or binned. Each store is individually responsible for how this is handled. Suffice to say though, that the overall effort and cost to discard these unwanted components is substantial.

We certainly don't intentionally loot customer vehicles in order to make a profit. In all cases, our preference would be for customers to take this equipment with them and discard of it themselves.

In some cases (tyre distributors for example) businesses actually charge the customer a fee for the disposal of unwanted parts. We haven't gone down this path.

Cheers, Sam.

Could you please explain how these things are recycled? Does ARB or employees sell the discarded items? Do they sell them on eBay or to wreckers you have dealings with?

Yes I understand and have seen the things that are not worth money (striped pile). But in all these piles I have not seem a pile of half good condition parts. There is a good/excellent condition pile!

So other than the really bad stuff, what happens to all the good stuff?

Do the employees keep it? Does it go on eBay? Does a wrecker come pass and pick it up?

Thanks Sam but the last reply didn't really answer my direct question

[growler2058]

Steel bin
Plastic bin
Glass bin
Copper bin
Brass bin
Shit bin (anything after GQ )

[Bloodyaussie]

In the motorcycle trade the dealers would get the wreckers to pop past and put a quick offer in for all those odds and ends... there would be lots of crap in there but also some gold!!

Growler I have told you........

[TheLocksmith]

See what happens when you spend up mate... you get ARB respond online!!!!

Now all I need is 4wd Systems to fricking get online? I probably have not spent enough for that?

It's not spending up big. It's when you try and get rolled on OEM parts when buying accessories. I've got a 2 page letter of the day and have had many comments come back from some pretty "high standing" community members and they have come to the same conclusion as me.

[Bloodyaussie]

It's not spending up big. It's when you try and get rolled on OEM parts when buying accessories. I've got a 2 page letter of the day and have had many comments come back from some pretty "high standing" community members and they have come to the same conclusion as me.

Sorry you lost me there??

[TheLocksmith]

Sorry you lost me there??

Don't worry, been that way all my life

[fracster]

ARB have come on here and offered a solution.

All companies get it wrong at times, it is how they deal with problems that sets them apart. Why not give them a chance before beastng them on here any more?

Yes,ARB, should know what franchises do, but in the real world that is not always possible.

Be thankful that you have stores like ARB over there, we have so little choice over here....................

[growler2058]

Sorry you lost me there??

Not hard..

[TheLocksmith]

Not hard..

I was so pi**off with the events and as I told people, it was mentioned to write an email and sent it.

So I wrote the good and bad of the event and there is good. Knowing it would fall on deaf ears I didn't send it and just started to look for a new place to continue building my rig.

As I was doing what I usually do and people asked me about the scamming, I just sent them a copy of the email I wrote, save repeating it.

All people came to the same thoughts as me. No it wasn't written one sided.