Monday, March 28, 2011

Bitten by Bad Sellers

If it seems too good to be true, cover your butt, you're about to be screwed.

SweetGoth and family are about to open vampire themed photobooths, and were seeking affordable, high-quality fangs to sell since what is a vampire without fangs? Wandering the internet, because where else does any left-clicking internet savvy modern Goth look for fangs, we discovered the fangs, image right, with a nice clean packaging, and an affordable cost though a China provider, globalmall, though DHGates.com.

With customary US trust, we didn't even cry foul when they informed us that the "shipping" had gone up, and we would need to pay additional monies to receive our order. We figured the costs, and paid. Note that we do run several websites, and we know it isn't hard to update info on webpages. It should have warned us that something was wrong.

We waited anxiously, like any young business with product to arrive, and tore into the package after its delivery. See below. Not what we ordered. And not saleable due to the jagged edges; what would a "vampire" sue us for if their "fang" tore their gums?

At present, it looks like we have 50 pairs of "vampire teethcaps" shoved up our "you know whats." We are screwed. Learn from our mistake, avoid purchases from either service. DHGates, like all internet service providers, sides where their income comes from, with the seller.

1 comment:

Sandra said...

Oh no! We have to remember that having the world to buy product from means no one has our backs! Can you escalate to paypal or other credit card chargeback?