A business customer reports a difficult experience buying parts from Rivian, citing an 'awful' account setup process, no wholesale discounts, few returnable parts, and slow response times of at...

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        "author": "vrparty",
        "excerpt": "i’m not. hope that helps.",
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        "excerpt": "Fill-rate - Rivian is super anal about this one metric. If you’re not meeting the threshold, you’re Ops Mgr will lay into you big time.\n\n You don’t get to order spares. Stock orders are approved by material planners. They make lists based on trends, data analytics, etc. If you’re ordering an SOP and the carrier fucks up, you’re most likely gonna have to source from another service center.\n\n Get co",
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        "excerpt": "I don’t work for Rivian, but I did just go through the gauntlet to get set up with an account to buy from them. It was awful. No discounts even for wholesale purchases, few returnable parts and it takes at least 24 hours to get word back from the current parts people about the order you have placed. Those people i dealt with were nice enough, but didn’t really have much to say in emails, most comm",
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        "excerpt": "About a year ago I interviewed for them for a Parts Level 3 position. And they’re for real a tech company work and lifestyle.",
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        "excerpt": "No but I do order it for my body shop. Any issues I've had there very responsive and helpful!",
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