Spyder Surfboards
I am never EVER going to give this company, "Spyder" ANY more of my business and ANY more of my valuable time EVER again! For starters, life is way to short to have to put up with this group. Some might refer to them as PTW's- the Professional Time Wasters. I'm completely done with them and so should you be. All the negative reviews about this company, the owner, and the employees are 100% positively true and very accurate!
Such time wasted in an entire year period of time to communicating to the Owner, Richard.
YOU do not want to give this company any of your time and your business.
The owner is a complete liar, violates your trust, gaslights you (in addition to his egotistical nature, gaslighting is another narcissistic trait and he should get himself checked out with a therapist for sure), and he and his staff are incredibly unprofessional both in person and on the phone. (Read the other negative reviews). Very rude, condescending, makes you promises, and then he strings you along for a year and reneges on all of his promises when the year is nearly over.
He is continuing to create a bad name for himself with our swim charity members (and other swim communities) who have bought from him in the past but are no longer doing so because of how poorly he has treated me and many others. You just don't know about all the other cases as these things most of the time go underreported. But I am coming forth because you all deserve to know the truth about this entire company and the people in it!
I was in touch with this person since October 2018. November 3, 2018 is when he promised our swim charity: 3 $50 gift cards and $100 worth of raffling items such as beach chair, T-shirt,& cap) if we come back in March 2019 to pick up the gifts. As promised, I contacted him in March. He ignored our messages. March went. April then came and finally got him to pick up the phone, he reneged on his March promise and told us to 'come back in June' to pick up the merchandise . So April went, so did May. And here comes June. I contact him again in June since he said 'to reach out to him again in June'. Completely never returns our emails and phone calls. June finally passed. Not surprisingly, he still has not given us the gifts that he promised us all the way back in March! Sigh. Finally, we are in July, the month of our event as he is well aware of via all our conversations and emails, and now he refuses to take the phone and sends one of his 'employees' to tell us to come back later and it is already July 9, 2019, since we contacted him before Independence Day in July. No response. Completely blows us off and reneges on his original commitment in November is 2018 to come pick up gifts in March. Unacceptable behavior yet I'm beginning to notice this person's 'trends', so I'm not surprised with his ill-willed, unprofessional, negligent behavior.
Geez you know, the decent thing from him could just have been a simple 'No' in the very beginning if he didn't want to help the charity to begin with. But stringing us along for a year, making us jump through all these hoops and wasting all are time and energy was completely unacceptable. ignoring our messages, and reneging on his promise to deliver in March is pretty bad business ethic, at the very least. No wonder why his employees are so rude because the owner himself has so many egoistic issues going on with himself! The picture about them has now become very clear in the mind now.
Don't go to Spyder anymore. If you have never gone- good! Don't ever go! There are several other groups to where you can get the same, if not, better quality of water and surf wear for cheaper and the management at other places is Much much better than Spyder...a night and day experience.
For starters, try Dive 'N Surf- they are highly professional and have a strong sense of urgency to deliver you top service. Becker is another one. Even Costco has better surfboards than Spyder, and at a much lower price!! Google it as there are many other options out there other than this 'Spyder place'!
Wow, can't believe I FINALLY had to write about this-- but let this help the rest of you save all your precious time and energy and go somewhere else!!
Thank you to all who have come forward with your negative reviews before me to shed the truth about this person and company! It was very helpful, and I wish I had gone online sooner to check them out! read more
