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I'm SO pissed!!!
I just feel like sharing it.
It's just another story of the joys of internet commerce:

SO as some of you may know I bought some 05 WRX wheels and tires recently.


Well, Firstly, the guy I bought them off NASIOC was the classic internet salesman. (I'll be nice and leave him anonymous for now) He responded very well, and was quite receptive during the whole sale right up until he got my $$$. Then it was like pulling teeth to get him to respond.

May 18th - I sent him $470 via paypal.
He assured me he would most likely get the wheels out by the 20th and that he would send a tracking number.
Over the next several days I sent him a couple messages asking for a tracking number. He dodges my messages, and says something to the effect of "you should have got one in your e-mail. check your junkmail box."

May 26th After a few demands for a Tracking #, He finally sends the wheels. It ended up being over a full week from the time I paid for them until the time he sent them. Wouldn't have been that big of a deal if I had just been told that from the beginning. boo hoo for me.

June 2nd: I got three wheels. Fed Ex Screws up my shipping Somehow and only sends 3 of the wheels to me while the fourth takes a senic tour of Northern California and Oregon. This all wind up taking an extra several days.
No lugs either. the lugs happened to be in the package that was misloaded and sent the wrong way.

June 7th: Now as you can imagine, I am anxiously awaiting my 4th wheel.
I was at the dentist getting a tooth pulled, and came home to find my final package waiting for me. YAY
As soon as i pick it up I hear lugs rattling all over in there.
"F$#@ !!!" I say as I peel back the cardboard.
Lugs everywhere. The bag he put them in was poorly taped inside a small piece of fiberglass insulation, and thrown in without being secured to anything. the bag had come out of the insulation and the lugs fell out a hole causing about 70 or so nicks and chips in my 4th wheel.
The crappy pics do NO justice for how Bad the wheel is.





I sent him a PM a couple hours ago, but I really don't know what to expect him to say.
All I know is He sold me 4 perfect condition wheels with barely used at all tires, and that is certainly not what I have sitting here...
I spent 470 bucks including shipping for these and he couldn't spend $1 or more than a couple minutes on packaging.

Thanks for letting me vent, even if you didn't read this "boo hoo" crap, and you don't even see this text.


*edited for grammar*

if you paid by credit card, i would threaten, well not threaten, but state: i will have my credit card reverse the charges for sending me damaged goods. Due to poorly packaged items. I woudlnt screw around with this crap....especially if hes is the way you say he is....thats just not acceptable...

That sucks dude, there's always a lot of what if involved with getting things shipped.

luckily it doesnt lookTHAT bad, but i'd still be pissed. Make him pay for a wheel fixing place to restore the damaged wheel to perfection

What about trying to get Fed Ex on the damages?

Steve

Werd. I moonlight in a shipping warehouse, and it's really probably not the guy's fault, even though he obviously did a piss-poor packing job.
We (me and my sort crew) literally throw boxes/packages. We smack each other with them, and they're generally used as toys, while we're sorting various items to their correct locations in the warehouse. ..and we're pretty nice with the things that come off our trailers. I can't imagine FedEx..
So, Steve has a point; I'd say call them and make with the mean talk, and if they won't budge, move down the line.. if you end up at your seller, then sobeit, but at least you got your shit right, right?

91legacy_sleeper wrote:Werd. I moonlight in a shipping warehouse, and it's really probably not the guy's fault, even though he obviously did a piss-poor packing job.
We (me and my sort crew) literally throw boxes/packages. We smack each other with them, and they're generally used as toys, while we're sorting various items to their correct locations in the warehouse. ..and we're pretty nice with the things that come off our trailers. I can't imagine FedEx..

Ditto. I worked at FedEx Ground last summer, and let me just say I would pack something VERY carefully if I was sending it through any shipping company.

UPS usually sends my stuff OK.

I ship lots of pretty fragile stuff for work, and I've yet to get something super damaged. Though things are packed pretty well, there are things that a pretty good whack would fuck up good.

if nothing pans out, there is at least some factory touch up paint for those wheels or so I am told. I hate sketchy people, got fed up with it and try to do most of my transactions locally. of course it is not always so easy to do so.
good luck on dealing with FedEx, this definitly isnt the first time Ive heard stories about crushed boxes, broken stuff, etc. looks like that seller is at fault though due to the bag was inside the box and ripped. fiberglass insulation? first time Ive seen that.

luckily it doesnt lookTHAT bad, but i'd still be pissed. Make him pay for a wheel fixing place to restore the damaged wheel to perfection

Yes it does look pretty bad. Unfortunately, it's harder to tell in the pics. I didn't really photograph every flaw, I just snapped a couple to give the general idea. If you can imagine it after a sonwy, salty Ohio winter or 2, then you'll see it looking REALLY bad with dozens of little rusty spots.
Wheel fixing place... If I can find one around here, that sounds perfect.
I'm still waiting to hear from the guy. The PM I sent to him yesterday is still Unread.

What about trying to get Fed Ex on the damages?

I would love to, cuz I hate FedEx anyway. I loosely tried to get him to ship it UPS at first, but he apparently has a fedex account or something. Also, AFAIK, only the sender can try to beat money out of fedex for that. Which maybe he will do.
Either way, I don't even think it was FedEx's fault. It is thier fault it took a senic ride up & down the coast, but I doubt they were playing "tag" or "catch" with a 40.9 pound package.
If the guy would have just put them in a small box in there instead of some shit he apparently dug out of the trash in his garage....

UPS usually sends my stuff OK.

Me too. I have repeatedly had good luck with UPS, and bad luck with FedEX. I had fedex completely lose a 5½ foot long box once. I dunno how that slips through the cracks.

if nothing pans out, there is at least some factory touch up paint for those wheels or so I am told.

...Sigh... I somehow forsee that being what ends up happening.

Off topic here: I have no clue how to quote someone and have it say "206er wrote:" or whatever... What am I missing?

hit the quote button on the post you want to quote and look at that bbs code that specifies who you are quoting. I find it easier to just hit the quote button rather than type it out.
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stant093 wrote:if you paid by credit card, i would threaten, well not threaten, but state: i will have my credit card reverse the charges for sending me damaged goods. Due to poorly packaged items. I woudlnt screw around with this crap....especially if hes is the way you say he is....thats just not acceptable...

That's exactly what I had to do to get my 4th take-off strut after the seller did a crappy job packing them and one fell out of the box. UPS only refunded $100 because it wasn't insured. It took 3 months after I paid for them to get all four.

Note to self: Buy locally whenever possible.