BS. I won't apologize, in fact "prick" is sugar coating it.
He treated me like **** for no reason, so I hold a negative opinion of him and his business.
Several years ago when I was about to purchase my first TR I found his name in a GMhightech magazine. I called and asked for photos of the cars they had, and they referred me to their website. OK, so I get online (wasn't computer savvy at all back then, not that I am now) and find his website. I order his book, and get some back issues of his newsletter. I find a car on his site that I like, so I call him up (first time I ever spoke to him) and ask him if the car was still available. I tell him I would very much like to purchase the car, and also take advantage of his 10% (I think) discount on parts purchased at the time of the automobile purchase. Kirbans is about 10 hours or more away, the only way I could buy the car was to drive over and get there by Saturday A.M. Now, in his book he comes off as such a good guy, picking people up at the airport, taking them to dinner, etc. But I am informed they are closed on Saturday. So I ask him (very politely) if he could just meet us at his shop long enough to pay him, load the car, and buy the parts I had selected (spending near $10K cash). He very rudely says no, we are closed on saturday and he didn't know what I was going to do. He basically hung up, and I was really suprised. Here is this guy, supposedly a pillar of the TR community, treating me, a customer spending cash on one of his overpriced heaps of crap and some parts, like I called to sell him Amway.
OK, F him. I buy another TR locally (such a better deal anyway, thank god I didn't buy Kirbans car) and even though I didn't like the way I was treated I proceed to spend thousands of dollars with Kirban to get parts I want. I know I'm not his biggest customer, but I was a damn sight from being his smallest. So one day I get some parts and one relatively inexpensive part is defective. No biggie, I called and told them the part is bad and I had already replaced it locally but felt I was entitled to a refund. I simply asked for a store credit, as I was about to order a few hundred dollars worth of stuff on this very phone call. Once again, I am treated like sh!t, and after the girl on the phone cried (WTF!?!) because she didn't know what to do, I was issued a 50% credit on the part (apparently because I used it for 5 minutes).
I decided not to order my parts through them anymore.
Tell me why I'm wrong for calling him a prick?
And before anyone says its me, the members here who actually know me will tell you I'm honest, respectful, and not afraid to spend $$$ on what I want. I am a vendors dream, I'll spend lots of $$$ with one who will just do his damn job. Sadly, that was rare in the buick community.