englishminx
12-07-2010, 04:43 PM
I just feel like I want to let off steam, I have been searching for a while for a crop a dile big bite, and really wanted the pink one to match everything else pink. QVC do a great price on it, but the cost of the case really puts me off.
Anyway 2 weeks ago, as if by magic there happened to be 2 on ebay for sale (just my luck), both with cases and some grommets. (Not sure if its the grommets with the crop a dile or with the case they were coming with). Anyway I decided to bid on the used one rather than the new one, as the new one had a broken hinge on the case, and although it could probably be fixed I prefered to buy the one that wasnt.
I paid a fair bit for it £38 with p&P, which is still less than the cost of brand new on QVC for both the tool and the case, although I know i would have got more eyelets and gromlets that way.
Well my postie is quite sweet and they decided not to post it through my letter box (even though on collecting it it would have fitted). Low and behold, the only packaging is thin brown parcel paper around it, the crop a dile (heavy metal), has been put into the plastic (fragile thin) case, with the grommets etc, and then just wrapped in one layer of thin brown parcel paper.
Is it surprising that when i opened it, the case is completly damaged. The buyer had not even attempted to protect it, or wrote fragile on the paper or anything.
So now I have a used crop adile, some gromlets, which has cost me more than a brand new one from QVC, just because of some incompetent seller, and to think I could have brought the brand new one on ebay for less.
I am also so grateful my postie did not post it through my letter box, as that would have probably smashed the case to pieces when it landed on my flooring (as I dont have carpet), and I dread to think the damage the metal crop a dile could have done to the flooring.
Are sellers really that stupid?
Ok Rant Over!!!!
PS Maybe I should have called it crap a dile when I sent her the stroppy message on ebay.
Anyway 2 weeks ago, as if by magic there happened to be 2 on ebay for sale (just my luck), both with cases and some grommets. (Not sure if its the grommets with the crop a dile or with the case they were coming with). Anyway I decided to bid on the used one rather than the new one, as the new one had a broken hinge on the case, and although it could probably be fixed I prefered to buy the one that wasnt.
I paid a fair bit for it £38 with p&P, which is still less than the cost of brand new on QVC for both the tool and the case, although I know i would have got more eyelets and gromlets that way.
Well my postie is quite sweet and they decided not to post it through my letter box (even though on collecting it it would have fitted). Low and behold, the only packaging is thin brown parcel paper around it, the crop a dile (heavy metal), has been put into the plastic (fragile thin) case, with the grommets etc, and then just wrapped in one layer of thin brown parcel paper.
Is it surprising that when i opened it, the case is completly damaged. The buyer had not even attempted to protect it, or wrote fragile on the paper or anything.
So now I have a used crop adile, some gromlets, which has cost me more than a brand new one from QVC, just because of some incompetent seller, and to think I could have brought the brand new one on ebay for less.
I am also so grateful my postie did not post it through my letter box, as that would have probably smashed the case to pieces when it landed on my flooring (as I dont have carpet), and I dread to think the damage the metal crop a dile could have done to the flooring.
Are sellers really that stupid?
Ok Rant Over!!!!
PS Maybe I should have called it crap a dile when I sent her the stroppy message on ebay.