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German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« on: April 21, 2017, 18:43:15 »
I have contacted both of these suppliers for leather samples via there websites and neither has responded in any way, shape or form let alone sent samples. Does anyone know a direct contact email address for someone at these companies.
On the other hand I contacted KHM Cabrio in the same way, had an acknowledgment email within 24 hours and samples arrived in 36 hours.
Well done to them.
Ray

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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2017, 19:27:50 »
I have dealings with John at GAT all the time.  He is VERY busy but provides excellent service and the quality is excellent

His direct email is :germanautotops@yahoo.com
You can tell him Steven from NY recommended him

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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2017, 20:36:31 »
I also had good experience with German Auto Tops
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2017, 21:22:58 »
KHM have always been good to deal with for me and an excellent product.
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2017, 04:01:09 »
I can honestly say that John at GAT is very busy but just keep trying.
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2017, 13:59:17 »
I was lucky to get samples from GAT overnight at no expense to me, great people.  The story with GAHH they could care less!  Never got the samples I requested and when I finally did ( Gernold had to step in at this point) they were all wrong.  In the end the leather came from Veteran.

http://www.veteranco.com/

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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2017, 10:09:09 »
Thank you guys for all your comments and thank you Steven for John's ( GAT ) direct email, i,l send him a request this afternoon.
Interesting that there was only one comment about GAHH and it was very negative, don't think i,l bother. I always think if you have to try that hard and spend that amount of time to give them your hard earn't money then they don't deserve it. Shame. Just my opinion though.
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2017, 16:49:57 »
Wow, Sent my email to John ( GAT ), had a reply back within 30 mins ( on a Sunday ) samples in the post tomorrow.
Impressed !
Thanks Steven, its not all what you know but who.
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2017, 17:02:39 »
.... I always think if you have to try that hard and spend that amount of time to give them your hard earn't money then they don't deserve it. Shame. Just my opinion though.
Ray
Ray,
while I share your sentiment I believe you should also consider the other side. GAT is a small family run company and in order to stay in business they have to sell a lot because the profit margins are very small. Just take a look at the prices for new carpet kits on eBay and you'll see the problem.
Thus the owner has to decide whether to spend about an hour to send samples to far away UK - and pay $5 for postage - fully knowing that he can't compete with Eurozone manufacturers on price alone because of shipping costs. His material is not different from what others supply because everyone buys from the same wholesalers. His only margin for success is the quality of the workmanship that he and his employees put in. But he cannot easily mail that, or can he??
But as you just posted, he did send you samples anyway hoping that his service will convince you to pay perhaps a bit more of your hard earned Pounds and buy from him.  ;)

FYI, GAAH also used to be a family run business until they were acquired by ARGENTA, an investment company in Texas, which subsequently also bought up Robbins Auto Tops and combined the two: http://argentalp.com/?page_id=390
They are now in the business of manufacturing and selling tops for mostly current cars and have very little interest in oldtimers.
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2017, 19:30:19 »
Fair point, well made Alfred. Thanks for the insight on the business's.

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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2017, 16:19:47 »
i have reached out the GAHH several times in the past 3 weeks via phone, email etc with no response.

I asked my upholstery shop about it and they are even having a hard time getting GAHH to respond.
GAHH won some award a while back and since then they have been hard to get a hold of.
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2017, 18:08:55 »
just go off the phone with Heather at World Upholstery.  2300 bucks for the entire interior kit for my 230 sl.   includes new door panels w hard pockets.
not bad.

cant even get a hold of GAHH
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2017, 06:22:22 »
Yes, i saw something about that award, think it was the top award for how to loose customers !
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Re: German Auto Tops & GAHH Automotive
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2017, 21:22:36 »
John at GAT will probably beat that price --call him (818) 766-9511
he is a member of our group : GAT1987

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