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Anyone ever deal with these guys? I ordered two items Wednesday, before last. It wasn't until Monday that the items were shipped. Come Friday, there was only one of the two items that I received. I had no notice of two separate shipments. I sent them a message and have yet to receive a reply. I would presume that through out the business day, they could have replied in that time.
I ordered quite a bit from them last year. they're local to me so I went and picked it all up and got to deal with them in person.
My experience was...
The online communication is a bit sloppy and nonresponsive. It is done by a teenage girl who doesn't really seem to know what she's doing. She's awkward to deal with to say the least.
The manager of the shop is her mom iirc and she's extremely friendly and helpful. The owner is also extremely friendly. Sal is his name I think.
They are quite disorganized though and their system of doing things is sub-par. They also only have 3? employees the last I knew. I haven't ordered from them in a while because of their disorganization but they do carry a lot of speciality crap that no one else has access to. The owner purchased the entire stock of a mopar plant that went out of business over seas.
If they got their act together and organized the warehouse along with streamlining their operations they'd be much better. I'd offer to do it for them but...I don't think they could afford me. ;-)
Yeah, not looking so good. I left a review of the product that I never received. The very next day, I got an email from them, asking me to review their product. So I did. I'm sure they will never be posted. Nor, will I ever see the product that I ordered.
After a month, I finally get an email saying that it has been shipped. Should get it by Tuesday. I did get a reply from BBB, two days after I filed the complaint, saying that they contacted them. Never get any response/reply from team cherokee, about any of my attempts to contact them.
I ordered a fuel pump assembly with the pump but only received the assembly. Emailed them but necer heard back from them. I like supporting small companies but only if they are reliable which i realize now they aren't.
You can see my order status from 18MAY and the today's date in the lower right. This is not acceptable. DO NOT do business with TeamCherokee.com/team4wd.com. I will keep you posted as I finally have time to call and force my order to happen.
TeamCherokee is just down the road from me, and my first AND LAST dealing with them is described below:
And I'm very unimpressed. I was there because I had ordered a pair of side mirrors and received a mismatched pair--one was glossy black while the other was matte. I live only a little north of their warehouse and work just a little south of it.
After being told I'd receive a call back and never getting one, I got in contact with them again (their phone goes to voicemail a lot, and my messages never got returned; I switched my tactic to spam-dialing until someone picked-up because it's the only way I ever established communication with them) and arranged to make an exchange in person to get a better matching pair. The person I made the arrangement with was not there, and no one who was there didn't have the first clue who I was, why I was there, or where my contact was--"She should be here; I don't know where she is."
I was first greeted by a young girl who was extra clueless and even though by her own admission she was just a shipping person and didn't know about anything else, she was quite persistent about butting into my business there and kept telling me to leave and come back later (even though she didn't know when "later" should be). The other shipping girl seemed more knowledgeable and was trying to be helpful but was also understandably in above her head. They both kept going back to an office to ask some guy questions who never did come out to see me, and I was told quite unprofessionally by Girl #1 that he's very irritable and just yells at them for asking him things. Awesome.
Eventually (about 10 min in) a truly helpful employee showed-up. She was also had no briefing regarding my issue and my arrival, but she got up to speed and, after doing some digging, determined that they did not have any more mirrors for me (black power fold-away for 84-96 XJ). My phone contact had told me they had one, but Girl #3 informed me that what had been set out was a 97-01 mirror and a manual 84-96 mirror. Evidently my contact had a hard time understanding how to use part numbers. Girl #3 then gave me some options. I chose to have her order me a pair of mirrors directly from Crown who, according to her, are more reliable about matching parts properly than Omix (the mirrors I originally received).
Girl #3 was great. She was knowledgeable, communicated well, treated me with respect, and was very motivated. Girl #2 was unremarkable, Girl #1 didn't do the company any favors by getting involved with me--she was naive, complained, nervous, annoying, and forced herself into business that had nothing to do with her--and if the accusation that Guy-in-the-back is really that irritable/mean is true, then he failed the company today as well--the accusation itself is a nail in the coffin; employees saying something like that to a customer does not make a positive impression. The packaging/shipping room is all I got a good look at, and while the employees were getting their work done well enough, it was pretty disorderly; a little more organization in that area would help them methinks.
My phone contact never did show up while I was there.
I strongly urge everyone to avoid doing any business with this company.
Just got off the phone with them after a month of no contact and they quickly reimbursed my money. That is the best way they could have handled it at this point. I will still submit my report to the BBB. You do not operate a business on excuses and apologies, you deliver the goods that were purchased in a timely manner, that is all.
///In case my point, as well as many others, was not clear, DO NOT do business with Kenosha County Classics, Inc. d.b.a. teamcherokee.com///