Originally Posted by Grim Reaper

When is your web site going to be back up? It may be my computer, but when I try to log on it says " site registration expired" ?

Originally Posted by Gene Culley

Lankford Pontiac Buick GMC has been the supporting dealer behind GM Parts House for almost 3 years. In May, Lankford was dealt a wind down letter and was notified by General Motors that they would lose their franchise after 53 years of being in the family.

Within the last few years Lankford had done everything GM had asked them to do. They relocated the business, designed the building according to the way GM wanted it done, and built a multi-million dollar facility as asked by the General on the lot picked by the General.

After doing all of that, they are losing the franchise. Since Pontiac will be gone at the end of 2010 and due to the fact that there is a Cadillac and Hummer and another Chevrolet dealership within only a 5 mile or so radius, they were the easy target.

Lankford went through the appeal process and was being reconsidered by GM. Then GM went into bankruptcy and when they came out of bankruptcy it was a different story. The Lankford’s still couldn’t get any straight answers, but at the same time there was nothing other than the letter that they had received to wind down. Part of going forward with the new GM the Lankford’s had to sign a new contract and agree to wind down by the end of 2010. GM also put a spin on it and figured out how to kill the dealers off early. They took away the ability to order cars. Since a new multi-million dollar facility was built, we would obviously need new cars to survive. The Lankford’s decided that we shouldn’t delay what was coming and take their pay-off early so everyone could start new. Lankford would like to close at the end of September.

GM Parts House is owned by me so that isn’t the end of my business. I currently have several offers to move my business to another place of business. When something like this happens, it is a good time to make some changes so I will take advantage of this and speak with each of them and decide where the best home is for my customers.

As of today, 9/11, I will stop orders from being taken on the site so that I may take care of all of the customers who’ve ordered from me up to this point and not leave anyone hanging until I reopen. The Lankford’s and I are people with morals and we agree that we will fulfill our obligations with our customers together and then we’ll go our separate ways.

So to cut to the chase, I’ve stopped taking orders today. You can call me next week for things that I have in inventory as we are going to get rid of the inventory at this establishment. I can still order parts, but choose not to so that I can take care of every order I’ve taken. Call it a buffer, if you will.

Within the next week I should know the new place that GM Parts House will be operating from and I will have to concentrate on setting up shop at that location. I look forward to taking more orders on October 1st and I will more than likely be doing pre-orders before then, with extra discounts.

Please, if we have unfinished business currently, I’d like to wrap it up and make sure that no stone is unturned and that every customer is taken care of properly. Of course, if there are any issues that come up while we’re on hiatus, I will take care of them when GM Parts House reopens.

So, if I haven’t been myself lately, or I haven’t been getting back to you as fast as normal, replying to emails as fast as normal, returning phone calls fast enough, you can see why. Please contact me if you need me for anything.

Originally Posted by kmccon

See the sticky above on ordering parts from Gene