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[quote=jonathan162]Just a followup FYI.

My local tent+awning shop came back with an insanely low quote:  A hundred bucks per hour (plus materials), and they think they can build this in two hours.  I can't make a [i]salad[/i] in two hours, so I'm deeply skeptical about that and haven't been taking them too seriously.  (Btw, we're talking canuck bucks here.)

The local real-trampolines shop has the material and actually a little familiarity with the subject matter - they know my boat shop and the guy who does sail work around here (and who gave me estimates [i]so[/i] insane that they can only indicate he really doesn't want to do it - or wants out of the business entirely.  If people feel like that they should just say so.).  They quoted me $800, which is a little steep - particularly when the boat was two hundred something and I'm repurposing an old junk trailer.

But I continue to be frustrated by Slo.  Despite my supplying all the requested information (photos, track dims, etc.), they've simply ignored me after my initial conversation with Kat - a phone call that happened because they wouldn't respond to email.  Since then, no replies of any kind, despite my periodic prompting.  Their "busy season"?  Maybe so, but if that's your attitude toward customer service i.e. we're too busy to even be courteous to prospective customers, you can quite quickly find that your [i]next[/i] busy season isn't, because everyone's learned you behave like assholes and aren't wasting any time on you.  I'd sure like to hear if anyone has anything good to say about them, because I sure don't.

As it turns out, my local thrift shop just had a few big chunks of what looks like suitable mesh (from some big powerboat trailering rock-bra) turn up, and I snagged the lot for a sawbuck, and I think I can get two 3'x8' tramp sections out of it.  So, since I won't have anything invested in the material (as I would with a few yards of new mesh from Sailrite), I figure what the hell, I think I'm going to give the tent+awning guys a go.  I know them, they've been around a long time, and have always been good about little jobs like tramp mods and replacing jib luff zippers.  Maybe I actually get away with it for a couple of hundred.[/quote]

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