MicroDosed™-
Pay for the goods, you know its the right thing to do.
The right thing would have been for the seller to send the rims in a timely manner.
@Skülly have you built the rims you bought in this country? Can you return them?
At most I'd send one message offering to pay for the rims that have shown up but subtracting anything that you're out for the other ones (return postage if they can be returned etc) and if that message is met with the same lackluster response as your previous ones then fuck it.
Would be interesting to know what the legal situation is. I think I looked into it once if you are incorrectly sent items then you have inform the sender and it's their responsibility to arrange collection of the item (at a time that suits the recipient I think) within a set time period. That was for a seller within the UK, not sure how it'd work with a seller in the US but you could make the offer.
I've had situations like this on ebay where a seller's stubbornness or lack of response has meant that I end with a full refund and the item and I'm always of the opinion that if its the sellers actions (or lack thereof) that have gotten us there then it's their fault.
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OK now my US seller saga has taken some interesting turns.
I messaged them a few times, asking if they had sent the parcel or not. I always got these really terse messages, no ‘Hi!’ or ‘Thanks, Billy’ type stuff, and NEVER actually answering my question, which was ‘when did you actually dispatch it’ and later ‘did you actuslly dispatch it or not’. I was just looking for some assurance that they’d actually sent it, rather than just taking $130 US from me and doing jack shit.
Them I googled the shop, an actual bike shop in Smalltownville Pennsyvania. The google reviews were a litany of ‘oh my god these guys are jokers’ ‘my stuff never came’ ‘they said they sent it but they didn’t’ and ‘I called them and the guy sounded stoned’, all one star review hell.
So I messaged again, saying ‘please answer my question: have you sent it?’. Got another vague reply.
So I called them. The guy sounded depressed to me, not stoned. I was SUPER polite, patient, ‘oh you know it’s been eight weeks now, I’m just calling to check what day you mailed it, because the est. delivery time keeps being pushed back, oh great yeah check at the warehouse for me buddy that would be so helpful, thanks so much I really appreciate your time Billy, have a great day’.
Next day I have another tracking number from ebay, seems like another parcel is being sent. I get another terse ebay msg: ‘we sent your parcel’.
I write back, as civil as I can mange: ‘Hi, please don’t send it now, I’ve really waited too long, I’ll find another rim, can I have a refund please? Here’s the transaction details: xxxxxx’
I get a refund really fast. Surprising.
That was about ten days ago. I buy more expensive stuff, in a colour I don’t much want, from a UK shop. I collect them after paying online.
I have a few days away. I come back to a Post Office card saying I have customs charge of £24. I go to office, I pay it, it’s my rims.
What do I do?! Their comms were so bad, I don’t really feel like paying them the refund back, but I kind of feel bad. Especially for the depressed bike shop guy - what if the $130 comes out of some some poor person’s wages?
What would Jebus do? What would you do? What would @jaygee do?