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At my first job, our office manager was a really nice Indian woman. She told the story of bringing her father over for a visit from India in the late 80's. He b
by HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
At my first job, our office manager was a really nice Indian woman. She told the story of bringing her father over for a visit from India in the late 80's. He brought a suitcase with him that he had purchased at Macy's at Herald Square (Manhattan) sometime in the 40's and the lock had broken. He insisted that she take him there to get it fixed because "it has a lifetime warranty and I'm not dead yet."
No amount of arguing would get him to stop so she gave up and drove the hour or so into NYC and went into Macy's expecting to be extremely embarrassed at trying to get a beat up old suitcase fixed. Instead, they basically got the white glove treatment. Macy's couldn't fix the lock, but replaced the 40-year-old suitcase with something that was similar, treated them to lunch at the store restaurant, the manager took a photo with her Dad, etc. He, of course, was thrilled to death by all the attention.
They were a pretty well-off family, so I expect that it was probably an expensive piece of luggage when new, but even so I was amazed by the story.
- ReptileMan 3y agoBrilliant Porsche add on the topic https://youtu.be/R8-9oIq1hxw https://youtu.be/R8-9oIq1hxw
- neilv 3y agoNice. BTW, musical score sounds like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Honey_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Honey_(song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KDPUTyDyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KDPUTyDyQ
- qingcharles 3y agoGood ear!
- TacticalCoder 3y agoIt is indeed amazing how you can order nearly any single old part at a Porsche center: if you've got the PET catalog reference, even better. And the people at the counter there for "new old" parts do know their job: you explain them which part you need, the number you think it is, and more often then not they'll find it in no time, warn you about this or that similar but not identical part, that other part you'll then need too, how complicated the replacement procedure is, etc. Now for some stuff and in case bootleg ones exist, you better buy the bootleg part for it's going to be much cheaper. Or eBay, parts from crashed cars (you often see a photo of the "donor", crashed, car). Had the "roof console" going cuckoo before I got the extended manufacturer warranty so it was on me (and they wouldn't sell me the warranty unless I fixed it)... Turns out the roof console depends on which extra the car has (like "homelink" to open your garage door or not, the color of the interior, etc.). So it's a part that has to be made specifically for your car: Porsche quoted me something like 765 EUR for the part + one hour of work + VAT (something silly like 1100 EUR altogether). I found a nearly identical part on eBay for... 48 EUR and installed it myself in literally 5 minutes. 48 EUR vs 1100 EUR. Also some people on forums are very good at finding which company is manufacturing that one very identical part for Porsche, but without the Porsche logo on it: gonna be way cheaper too and it's literally the same part. One example would be a Porsche battery charger which is just a CTEK charger with the CTEK logo replace by a Porsche one and sold 2x the price (not the best example as better example would be actual car parts but you get the idea).
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- neilv 3y agoThank Santa? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwck_UHXQWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwck_UHXQWg