• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Husqvarna BMW Canada

Wow. That's pretty low of them. I could see them resisting if they'd already paid the rebates once, but this just doesn't seem right.
 
ScottyR said:
I just got my official "go f-ck yourself" letter from BMW/Husqvarna Canada today saying that even though Husqvarna Italy never paid any of the rebates to BMG, that they will not redirect the money to the dealers who were relying on it to pay their bills. I am not surprised by this but the fact that they kept stringing me along since April pisses me off more than anything.
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I just read this Scott and it really pisses off. But you are the one out the monies owed. We all know that it was people like you who built the brand up in Canada and this is the thanks they give you. What a bunch of %$@#! And they have the money still!
 
ScottyR said:
I just got my official "go f-ck yourself" letter from BMW/Husqvarna Canada today saying that even though Husqvarna Italy never paid any of the rebates to BMG, that they will not redirect the money to the dealers who were relying on it to pay their bills. I am not surprised by this but the fact that they kept stringing me along since April pisses me off more than anything.
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I guess they wanted to string the dealers along so they would commit to keeping the brand on for another year. Josh was stringing me along with the race contingency (not quite the same amount of dollars) then on friday sent me an email that said, "At that time the program was set up by the Importer, not Husqvarna North America, and the importer is no longer in business and therefore no longer able to meet the contingency commitments for that time frame."

The time I talked with him before, he asked me for my all my contingency info again. I can't believe I actually thought there might be a chance I would get paid out. Anyway, I sure you would get a laugh out of my email response, I CCed it to every email adress I could find on the BMWGroup canada website that I could find. I think its frickin' rude that BMW Group would actually hire that guy as a transition manager, total lack of integrity by them. I will never buy another Husky or BMW again, love the bike but I just can't bo business with assholes like this
 
I just heard that contingency wouldnt be paid tonight. It was less than $20K owed to customers. I am sure that BMW spends more than that on stationary and they cant seem to come up with the money to make things right with their customers.

FWIW, every piece of Husqvarna clothing I own went into a garbage bag and was dropped off at Goodwill last week. I refuse to promote the brand in any manner after the screw job they did to the CDN riders and dealers.
 
It is one of those crappy situations. I like the bikes but I cannot tolerate horrible business practices.
I really enjoyed Scott's dealership, it was run extremely well from my perspective. Good product and top notch customer service. I have no doubt a dealership like that would have eventually given husqvarna a good foothold in Ontario.

But I can tell you I will never buy a husqvarna again, based on what they did to scott. Luckily most dealers that sell husky. Also sell husaberg, I think I am going to vote for team husaberg now. I can still support the little guy shops and have a fantastic product.
 
ScottyR said:
I just heard that contingency wouldnt be paid tonight. It was less than $20K owed to customers. I am sure that BMW spends more than that on stationary and they cant seem to come up with the money to make things right with their customers.

FWIW, every piece of Husqvarna clothing I own went into a garbage bag and was dropped off at Goodwill last week. I refuse to promote the brand in any manner after the screw job they did to the CDN riders and dealers.
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Scott, How is Rob ? doing with your old business ?
 
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