Steve K
06-09-2005, 07:45 AM
Hi all!
Knowing that many of you members here do a lot of electronics tinkering for repairing or restoring vintage JBL stuff, I would appreciate getting recommendations on where to obtain speaker and other electronics parts.
I'm asking this for a new friend of mine who owns a audio/visual repair business, as well as a custom furniture shop, in Japan. There aren't any large scale direct order parts suppliers in Japan, so he's been getting parts from U.S. online vendors. Otherwise, he would have to make freiquent trips to Akihabara, the world's electronics parts capitol, which is infeasible due to travel costs and time constraints (as he lives a good 4 hours from Tokyo). Recently, he has been trying to buy some parts from this particular online parts store, whom I'd rather not name here. This vendor has so far been giving my friend nothing but headaches, like having his order cancelled unexpectedly, not getting any replies to his repeated inquiries, etc. It's taken him two weeks just to have his order confirmed, and that was with my intervening on his behalf and only after several emails have been exchanged!
I'd like to suggest to him a couple of other online sellers with good reputations, especially as far as customer service is concerned.
We, my friend and I, would really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
Knowing that many of you members here do a lot of electronics tinkering for repairing or restoring vintage JBL stuff, I would appreciate getting recommendations on where to obtain speaker and other electronics parts.
I'm asking this for a new friend of mine who owns a audio/visual repair business, as well as a custom furniture shop, in Japan. There aren't any large scale direct order parts suppliers in Japan, so he's been getting parts from U.S. online vendors. Otherwise, he would have to make freiquent trips to Akihabara, the world's electronics parts capitol, which is infeasible due to travel costs and time constraints (as he lives a good 4 hours from Tokyo). Recently, he has been trying to buy some parts from this particular online parts store, whom I'd rather not name here. This vendor has so far been giving my friend nothing but headaches, like having his order cancelled unexpectedly, not getting any replies to his repeated inquiries, etc. It's taken him two weeks just to have his order confirmed, and that was with my intervening on his behalf and only after several emails have been exchanged!
I'd like to suggest to him a couple of other online sellers with good reputations, especially as far as customer service is concerned.
We, my friend and I, would really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.