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Complaint Review: Vehicle Fits - Stuart Florida

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  • Vehicle Fits 123 SE Hancock St Stuart, Florida United States of America

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Our company was looking for a year/make/model extension for our magento store when we stumbled upon Vehicle Fits; we contacted the company and spoke with a gentleman by the name of Josh. We explained to Josh that we have had some problems with purchasing magento extensions in the past and were a little weary about purchasing another extension that may not work properly. Josh assured us that this would not be the case with his software and even offered to remove his refund policy for us and he would refund us our money if we were not happy with his software.

After we purchased the software everything seemed to be moving along just fine, he offered to install his software and had to make about 4 updates to get it up and running. There were a few bugs here and there like misspellings, some all capital letters, some lower case, doubles of makes models, wrong vehicle to bolt pattern and a few other minor issues but he assured us once again that they would be sorted out. He said a buddy of his was working on that for him and it would be fixed within a few days. This never happened and nothing was fixed.  We also noticed that our page load times were horrible with the extension installed and we were told it was a cache issue and we needed to clear our cache more often. We were also told he was going to custom program the module to suit our needs better with a year make model choice for both wheel and vehicle sides and that never happened either.  The load time issue is caused by a hog of java scripting poorly written and not optimized at all, if you view his test sites you will notice load times are horrible.

Our server suffered a failure last week and we had to recover it from our data center, after getting the server back and going through the data base we discovered if we removed his entries from our SQL data base our problem was fixed and our sites would function as they should and with the entries added back to the database our sites would fail to load. Clearly his software were the cause here, magento functioned perfectly without his module entries.  We contacted him and informed him that we were not happy with his product and that it still needed some tweaking and we would like a refund, we were told he would issue a refund if we were not happy with his software. He asked if he could have the chance to try and fix it and was simply told NO, our server was down for a few hours and that costs our company money and we could not afford to have any down time in the future due to his software failing. Josh was now looking for every possible way to get out of giving us our refund and looking for a way to make it our fault his software failed when that didn't work he started in with immature name calling and vulgar remarks.

No refund has been issued at this point and we are having our legal team contact him this week. We would just like to give everyone else a heads up to stay away from this company and let you know how our experience with Josh and vehiclefits.com turned out.



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#8 Author of original report

We paid for your software, why is it a risk to release it to us.

AUTHOR: SWO LLC - (USA)

POSTED: Thursday, November 18, 2010

Clearly there must still be a problem with your software if it's a risk to your business to release the software to us. We paid for it, why can't we have the right to use it?

We purchased your vehicle fits extension 8-16-2010, it is now 11-18-2010. How long exactly do you have to deliver a proper working module. Are we not supposed to be disappointed after 3 months of getting the run around? I think 3 months is plenty of time spent "working with you".

You failed to install a working module 2 times, please send us the software we paid for or issue a refund.

Quit acting as if you are working with us, you won't even answer my questions.

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#7 Author of original report

Why can't we have the software we paid for?

AUTHOR: SWO LLC - (USA)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The file you mentioned was sent Thu 11/11/2010 6:54 PM, if you bothered to check your email you might have noticed it. I have the email to prove it, so you can quit with the lies.

So we are out $700 and still no software,updates or support?

What's your response to that Josh? Quit talking in circles and let us know your answer to that question. Please don't use the excuse that "we lost that right because we posted on a complaint board".

We gave you a second chance to install your software and you failed to communicate, so you can't use that excuse either.You openly admit that fact in your previous post.

Let your future customers know what will happen if they run into a problem, will they suffer the same fate as us?

Will you lie about giving them a refund and editing your return policy?

Will you leave them hanging for days and have them wondering if you are working on their website?

If they don't hear from you for a week and post a complaint will they be out of their money and a working product?

If your software causes a malfunction will you pay for the recovery and time spent on repairs?

Will their emails be considered fluff?

These are honest questions how about some honest answers.

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#6 REBUTTAL Owner of company

The customer has asked me not to email him

AUTHOR: Vehiclefits - (United States of America)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The customer keeps demanding I re-instate his updates (saying I have no "right" to end updates, which I do).

I told him I would do so after he let me finish setting up the test site, and I have some evidence that it works fine for his products.

Receiving help from me and spreading negative reviews should be mutually exclusive activities. Most companies would just out right refuse support, but I still have not given up hopes on helping the customer. I don't think its unreasonable that I would want some sort of evidence on whether his claim is verifiable or not. After all I am exposing myself to business risk by providing these updates.

As for background info the updates were removed after he demanded a refund and refused to let me look into his claim to verify it before talking about a refund. He then started spreading negative reviews, before asking for his updates to be re-instantiated. He has had multiple chances and has had ample opportunity to think about the consequences of his actions. Just today he has emailed and threatened to sue me again, stating not to reply unless it is to provide access to these updates he feels entitled to. It this continual malice, this "dont reply to my email, I am suing" attitude that has made working with this customer next to impossible.

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#5 REBUTTAL Owner of company

I am trying to work with this customer but he is impatient

AUTHOR: Vehiclefits - (United States of America)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010

I have responded to all emails, except in the case where I told him something would take a few days, and he continues to follow up anyways in the interim. He is correct that I ignored his follow up his emails in this case. At this point I guess I will assume he is unwilling to work with me.


He put in all his data "record by record" the first time around and did not make a backup, so I said we would need to make an way for him to import a CSV file. He sent me his CSV file format on Saturday and it is currently Wednesday. Since it was his choice to "do it by hand" the first time, I was just trying to help by offering to add a CSV import routine for him. If he does not want to wait he can try to locate his old backup, or enter in by hand like he did the first time.

I am being as responsive as possible, but I don't have 20 minutes every day to respond to "fluff" follow up emails that I have already addressed. Sorry I guess....
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#4 Author of original report

Vehicle Fits - Didn't Follow Through With Our Agreement

AUTHOR: SWO LLC - (USA)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010

We decided to give Josh a chance to complete the module as agreed and prove to us that his module was not at fault for our magento store failure, he installed the basic module on a test site and then disappeared. He is no longer responding to our emails and we are still locked out of updates. We never received a refund and now we are stuck with a none working magento module and lost out on $700. He claims we are no longer allowed to receive updates or download the software we paid for due to that fact we posted our complaints on these message boards.

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#3 Author of original report

Working with vehicle fits to try and resolve our problem.

AUTHOR: SWO LLC - (USA)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
we are currently working with Josh to resolve this matter
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#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company

Refused to answer simple questions about how many products he has, etc..

AUTHOR: Vehiclefits - (United States of America)

POSTED: Monday, November 08, 2010
My response is written in reply to his other complaint, FYI 

http://www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=89846



I am the CEO of vehiclefits.com, Josh Ribakoff 

 

This guy contradicted himself. Stated he did not sign a written agreement, and also stated I do not honor written agreements. He refused to sign any agreement when I asked him to, that was his choice. 

 

Email support was ended for this customer because he was bogging down my inbox with repeated emails threatening to sue me. 

 

To clarify, I responded to each email in a serious manner asking to see a report of page load times, or for him toinstall my extension for 2 seconds so I can profile his page load time. He refused. 

 

I asked him how many products, vehicles, & fitments he has, so I can try to reproduce the issue by running my own benchmarks, he refused to address the question and kept threatening to sue. 

 

To clarify, our agreement was I would fix or refund at my discretion (as in - if he were to find a bug that I were technically incapable of fixing, I would refund his purchase). 

 

Here is correct that my terms state 'no refund', however there is a demo of my software at http://demo.vehiclefits.com admin: http://demo.vehiclefits.com (u: admin p:admin123) feel free to examine the stability & speed for yourself, my VPS runs on 375MB of ram. There is not as much data in my demo as his site, but I was willing to load up his actual data, or dummy data of commensurate complexity as his, but he refused to help me help him. 

 

This guy's company has an F in the BBB, due to refusing to respond to his own customer complaints. http://www.complaints.com/2009/august/14/Lug-Nuts.net_Rip-Off_212328.htm Looks like he tried to sue his last web developer too.
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#1 Author of original report

Day 3

AUTHOR: Vehicle Fits - (United States of America)

POSTED: Monday, November 08, 2010

Josh now claims that posting this complaint is a form of blackmail and slander and in return he has now disabled access to the software we have purchased and any future updates, but we have still not received a refund. 

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