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Does anybody have a way to contact those folks other than email? On Oct 13th I placed an order for $150 of sanding belts, got an acknowledgement same day. Since then I've not heard a thing. I sent a follow up email Oct 22nd to kyle@kadrmaskreations.com with no response. Under contact info there is only a mailing address and email, no phone number.

Does anybody have a phone number for them? All I'm asking of the place is an idea of when or "if" they plan to ship the sanding belts.

Ken H>
 
They get trashed everytime they're brought up from what I can remember. Delays, poor service etc. Hope it works out!
 
I ordered my grinder from here and yes it took a while and yes Kyle does not answer emails very well but from what I understand he's the only one working there and he's just swamped with work. For a grinder I was okay with the wait time however with belts yeah I would want my order and some response to be pretty quick but I would have faith that your order will arrive at some point
 
Come on Ken. When you and I were lads we would be elated if a package arrived within a month after we mailed the money order/check to a business. For those of you not as old as Ken and I, postage for a first class letter was $0.03 when we were young.

Nerd stuff:
A lot of folks wonder why we get the December issue of a magazine in September. Well, back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, they needed to print them many months ahead to get them to the readers before the cover month. Even then, sometimes you wouldn't get the December issue until January of February.
This changed when news stands and places that had magazine racks became common (Ask your folks if you don't know what those are). The store operators used the cover date as the pull date, meaning at the end of the cover month, the magazines were pulled from the racks and returned to the publisher for credit. The publishers started putting a cover date months later that the actual publication date. This kept the magazines on the shelves as current issues for several months before they could be returned for credit.
With the advent of faster mail service (well, it used to be faster), and the post war boom in home delivery subscriptions (young folks sold magazine subscriptions door to door back then) they still kept dating them months in advance. This made people who subscribed think they were getting them earlier than everyone else. Comic books also started doing this.
Now, with instant electronic/digital content being common, you can get a copy the day it is released. The cover date means pretty much nothing now.
Funny part of this - I'm going to guess that we all have seen a Playboy magazine a few times in our lives (or the local equivalent). We all loved to check out the babes on the beach. Sometimes those photo shoots were done a year earlier, but often it was about 6 months in advance of the cover date. That means that Miss July was freezing her T!t$ off on the beach in California when the shoot was done in January. They had to bring in giant heater fans and heated tents to keep the models warm until they shot the photos. The gals went out wrapped in heavy robes that were shed just before the photos were taken. Many times you could see goosebumps in the pictures of ladies who were supposedly basking nude in the hot sun ... if you were looking at her arm skin. They often sprayed them with hot water to simulate hot sweaty summer skin.
 
Yea Stacy - you're right about that. I can well remember "back when" the normal delivery for a package ordered about 2 to 3 wks and didn't think anything about it. Of course we paid $500 for a decent sized HD, and can remember a phone modem (used to connect computer to a dialup phone line for BBS - pre-internet) I was looking at was $1200. Amazon ruined us for those long waits {g}

It's just that for a simple grinding belt order I would have expected at least some type of acknowledgement other than the auto-reply of "order received".

Thanks again to all for info and encouragement. I see he is in CST so I'll call him in at 9am CST (my time)

Ken H>
 
I know this is a diversion from the OP, but heck stacy, i learned printing by manually setting single letter lead type (took just a *little* more time than using a word processor and printer). Ok, that was (literally just a little) behind then-current technology ... which was called "linotype" ... where you would type letters into the machine, and it would cast an ENTIRE line of text out of lead to be placed into the printing machine along with all the other lines of text. For a long time this was how newspapers were printed. I still remember well the first time i used a real "word processor", which was actually a piece of software running on a mainframe computer (and printed on something like a selectric typewriter head that was actually a computer printer ...and you had to manually insert command text into the document to bold, indent, etc. the program was called "runoff" or "n-roff", depending on version. It was WONDERFUL.

My how times change...

Back to OP, for good or bad, there HAS developed an expectation that "stuff" can be had on a very quick timeframe after being ordered (a few weeks ago a placed an order with amazon, and the item was delivered that afternoon!). If someone, running a business, is so backlogged they cant get stuff out the door in a reasonable time, they need to hire help (the volume of business should pay for it), or stop trying ti supply the business that they offer where other businesses outperform them ... otherwise their customers will select that outcome for them. Maybe sad, but just the way things are nowadays...

Slight aside ... a couple years ago we visited the Makers Mark distillery, and they made a HUGE deal about the fact that ALL of their bottle labels are still printed on the old cast iron, lead type based manual printing machines!
 
As expected only answer was an answering machine so I left a msg with date of order and order #. We'll see if any response.
 
Ken H> said:
As expected only answer was an answering machine so I left a msg with date of order and order #. We'll see if any response.
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IDK how right or wrong it is but what I did was just kept calling. I called him probably 10 times one day and finally got ahold of him. We had a good long conversation and from what I could gather he just doesn't keep the phone near him. depends on how much you want to bug him.
 
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