Original Posted By: Michael Perez
Subject: Pietenpol-List: AS&S bought naming rights to Exhibit Building A at OshkoshDid you notice on the site map of AirVenture that ASSco bought the naming rights for Exhibit Building A ?It is now called the Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Exhibit Hangar A. Bendix-King by Honeywell bought the namingrights to Exhibit Hangar B.I love going to Oshkosh-I love the air show, the show planes, the homebuilts, the antiques, the warbirds and Ifully understand that many of the improvements to the grounds were probably paid for, in part, by the ever-increasingcorporate sponsorships that EAA has formed over the past years. But (you knew there was going to be a but, didn't you ?)EAA is prostituting out quite a few things and can't say I blame them if ASSCo and other companies have the bucks to do it.I'm looking forward to landing on the Purple, Yellow, or Green dots on the runway someday down the road at Oshkosh butjust might hear the controller tell me "blue and white high wing, cleared to land on the Land-0-Lakes Butter Yellow dot".I dealt with WICKS and some with AS&S for almost 5 years and I can say HANDS DOWN, no doubt in my mind that I gotbetter service, better prices, better quality, faster shipment, and almost NO backordered items when I dealt with WICKSand the people manning the phones at WICKS were not 18 year old ladies who didn't know a nose tire inner tube from a spark plug(or 18 year old young man) but the people at WICKS were technically-minded and knew their products.AS& S caters (I think) to the BIG BUCK builders out there who can simply shoot a money gun at their projects and spend $15K herefor a glass panel (or more), and 10K there like it was $50 bucks to us. They don't need to cater to the little people like us whomight only need $25 dollars worth of AN hardware then come to find out some of it won't arrive for weeks because it might bebackordered. That's just my experience with AS&S. It is nice that AS&S tries to right their wrongs but if you don't want tohave to spend time correcting their wrongs by calling them, shipping crappy materials back, trying to get backordered itemsbefore you start collecting Social Security, don't deal with them-go to Wicks.Mike C.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:23:27 -0700 (PDT)