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Well, only a nightmare insofar as I have failed to get past the "contact us" bit of the website. It decided that my email address was too long or silly, so it jammed up right there. So i must have then gotten on to a dealer site - same thing. Or maybe I failed to type in the wavy letters and numbers.
But .... I am a bit wary of getting in touch with a dealer of a sub-dealer cos then AHA! they have GOTCHA! You walk in to the most numpty daft useless sub-dealer and they extract your details - and then... you're theirs! Oh yes you are! They will wire through your details to ensure that THEY get all the commission, or at least half of it, and you're flipping stuck with Mr or Mrs Idiot Useless Non-technical Salesperson who hasn't ever seen the boat, doesn't know the options and so on. Jeez. Just cos of one's location at the time they started looking - if you walked into a dealer in Oslo, well, that's that. Actually i bet they would be fine in Oslo, but anyways, not the point.
i wd be buying a boat to set off to sea and sail about and NOT pay a load of silly local taxes or delivery charges thank you very much. They put it in the sea, I'll get on board and yerknow, sail off somewhere else. "Oh but where will you actually keep the boat hm ?" well, here and there is my answer. Sometimes I'll be in France, sometimes Spain, Gibraltar, Carib, Panama, SPacific, Australia, Seth Efrica and some other places too. Probably never Italy or anywhere cold. Generally between 44N and 35S which allows for western Med, carib, French poly and round again.
I am in the carib at the mo, but visiting Europe soon, most south of France i think, but also Paris and Amsterdam.
Also I don't much go a bundle on visiting things being built, so I'd just choose the sensible/popular options and def not want to go visit the factory too much, thanks. Just a bunch of emails each way, ands perhaps some pix from time to time. Oh alright, If I have really GOT to go and see things and say hm, yes, very leathery but you say it is not real leather but actually some manmade material which is better? how very interesting... and yes well he may very well be an excellent engineer but he's about to screw non-A4 fasteners on to my boat and i really don't want him to do that... and oh I see, your final fit-out team can't do that because you're sick of me having ideas half way thru the build yes fair enough, carry on... well then, ok, i wd visit somewhere, a bit, but not Dusseldorf which is rather boring. Paris, much less boring I suppose. But although on parle a fair peu de francais, easily enough to confirmez que l'accident avec l'autre voiture c'etait pas ma faut, well, it's not much going to work tout en francais, not really. Altho actually, the dealer being able to parlez franca is avec Jeanneau luii-meme, well, that would be assez bien.
So henyway, any Jeanneau dealer out there who might be able to help, please get in touch. Or perhaps others reading this - mebbe you know a very wise and capable jeanneau dealer? But note that i don't too much care about them being ace with the spanners - if something breaks i wd be invariably somewhere else, like that time I eventually got on the phone to Raymarine and having had enough of being passed around everyone else, I asked to speak Ray himself. I never got to speak to Ray, and they did eventually sort it out using someone in the Canaries, see? Which needed them to be hot on the phones and emails and sending spare or replacements.
Best is use my email address of course, which is not easy to remember. Write something witty, ok? Something a bit fun? Boats are supposed to be fun, and buying a boat oughta be fun as well, I think.
Actually i think there might be a long queue to buy a J64 so, humm, praps they are very very busy, dammit.
Oh and that email address is on the hotmail dot com server or whatever they call a bunch of email addresses.
Thanks!
But .... I am a bit wary of getting in touch with a dealer of a sub-dealer cos then AHA! they have GOTCHA! You walk in to the most numpty daft useless sub-dealer and they extract your details - and then... you're theirs! Oh yes you are! They will wire through your details to ensure that THEY get all the commission, or at least half of it, and you're flipping stuck with Mr or Mrs Idiot Useless Non-technical Salesperson who hasn't ever seen the boat, doesn't know the options and so on. Jeez. Just cos of one's location at the time they started looking - if you walked into a dealer in Oslo, well, that's that. Actually i bet they would be fine in Oslo, but anyways, not the point.
i wd be buying a boat to set off to sea and sail about and NOT pay a load of silly local taxes or delivery charges thank you very much. They put it in the sea, I'll get on board and yerknow, sail off somewhere else. "Oh but where will you actually keep the boat hm ?" well, here and there is my answer. Sometimes I'll be in France, sometimes Spain, Gibraltar, Carib, Panama, SPacific, Australia, Seth Efrica and some other places too. Probably never Italy or anywhere cold. Generally between 44N and 35S which allows for western Med, carib, French poly and round again.
I am in the carib at the mo, but visiting Europe soon, most south of France i think, but also Paris and Amsterdam.
Also I don't much go a bundle on visiting things being built, so I'd just choose the sensible/popular options and def not want to go visit the factory too much, thanks. Just a bunch of emails each way, ands perhaps some pix from time to time. Oh alright, If I have really GOT to go and see things and say hm, yes, very leathery but you say it is not real leather but actually some manmade material which is better? how very interesting... and yes well he may very well be an excellent engineer but he's about to screw non-A4 fasteners on to my boat and i really don't want him to do that... and oh I see, your final fit-out team can't do that because you're sick of me having ideas half way thru the build yes fair enough, carry on... well then, ok, i wd visit somewhere, a bit, but not Dusseldorf which is rather boring. Paris, much less boring I suppose. But although on parle a fair peu de francais, easily enough to confirmez que l'accident avec l'autre voiture c'etait pas ma faut, well, it's not much going to work tout en francais, not really. Altho actually, the dealer being able to parlez franca is avec Jeanneau luii-meme, well, that would be assez bien.
So henyway, any Jeanneau dealer out there who might be able to help, please get in touch. Or perhaps others reading this - mebbe you know a very wise and capable jeanneau dealer? But note that i don't too much care about them being ace with the spanners - if something breaks i wd be invariably somewhere else, like that time I eventually got on the phone to Raymarine and having had enough of being passed around everyone else, I asked to speak Ray himself. I never got to speak to Ray, and they did eventually sort it out using someone in the Canaries, see? Which needed them to be hot on the phones and emails and sending spare or replacements.
Best is use my email address of course, which is not easy to remember. Write something witty, ok? Something a bit fun? Boats are supposed to be fun, and buying a boat oughta be fun as well, I think.
Actually i think there might be a long queue to buy a J64 so, humm, praps they are very very busy, dammit.
Oh and that email address is on the hotmail dot com server or whatever they call a bunch of email addresses.
Thanks!
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