All subscribers:
Please remember to complain to the DOD about LL / Government
Liquidation. I, and every one I have spoken to has had a negative experience
with this company. Remember your taxpayer dollars went to purchase this
property. The tax payer should not get screwed when repurchasing the
property surplus!!!!!
kstrain@earthlink.net
-----Original Message-----
From: SFCWBARZ@aol.com <SFCWBARZ@aol.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Gripe about Levy-Latham
>As far as I am concerned Levy-Latham (also known as Government Liquidation)
>stink on ice. I have had problms with them in every auction I have
>attempted. Their personnel are about as arrogant as they come; No time for
>questions, they "may" show up at an unmanned site when scheduled but
there's
>no way of knowing, a vehicle listed at one location may actually be several
>hundred miles away, (as I recently discovered)
>
>This morning was the last straw. Sale 0586 was supposed to end at 1700
hours
>EST yesterday. After 1645 their server supposedly took a dive and they
>reopened bidding for a short period. Then, when either by accident or
design
>they discovered a lot of last minute bids (read as more money in their
>pockets) they decided to reopen "certain" lots for several hours today.
>Unfortunately for me a tow tractor which I thought I had one at a decent
>price was one of the "certain items" (which all appeared to me to be select
>items that originally went for low bids). The tractor is now in the wind
>and the other items I was interested in and may have rebid on are no longer
>available.
>
>For those of you who have not bid with LL, read the fine print in their
sales
>agreement, basically it says they are always right, have the last word and
if
>you don't like it T.S.
>I thought maybe it was just me but when I recently went to make a pick up I
>met other guys outside the gate who were already bitchin' about their
>service.
>
>While DRMO wasn't perfect I always found the local personnel and the ones
in
>Battle Creek to be very professional, helpful and courteous (yes, their
>forklift drivers were all pretty bad but at least they would always be
around
>to load!) Dealing direct with DRMO I never had a problem with EUC's or
>paying with items when actually picked up. Additionally, if an item had
been
>altered, misdescribed or otherwise found to be undesirable, DRMO had no
>problem in canceling the transaction (as long as you didn't make a habit of
>it).
>
>Oh well, back to the Motor pool.....
>
>Willaim
>
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