Chaconne
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I am grateful that folks were willing to take the chance as super early adopters and made it possible for the rest of us to purchase through the channel --don't mean to sound unappreciative of the risk you took. What I am railing against is that companies that use the online route to increase their profits in order to decrease the cost of service at the consumer's expense.Completely agree with you Chaconne, unfortunately i was one of the first customers to be part of the deposit scheme, back then there was no dealers and it was all purchased on line. Even when my bike was delivered dealers were few and far between i was very lucky to have a electric motorcycle shop a hour away from where i live and the guy who owed the shop had just taken delivery of 2 starks which he was in the process of becoming a dealer.
After reading another thread earlier it seemed the person was struggling with the support service online more so as he had gone through a dealer but then again its difficult to have an opinion as the response he received from stark support was very abrupt. we dont know what he said to them to get that response back.
We even have companies here like Nike who cut out dealerships for their own bottom line then cry when consumers abandon them since they can't even try on their $300.00 running shoes in a shop before they buy them.
Agree with you that person seemed to be stuck between online and dealer and his powerblast didn't help --the dealer/direct will probably be an issue for some time for Stark I think. Dealers now see that they can sell Starks right along side their KTMs and big 4 so there should be more uniformity with dealers and service in the future. I don't see dealers as a panacea rather that one path to pain is typically easier than two in my experience at least.