Biggest online purchasing flop?

[HamSolo]

 

This weekend my wife & I drove an hour to Officer to buy a Subsonic XS1 subwoofer off FBM as my birthday gift. Literally 200m from the seller's address we received a message that she made a terrible mistake and forgot that she sold the sub 

I still knocked on the door and had some choice words with the lady, but I guess we all slip up occasionally.

 

[Steff]

Not exactly a nice drive either.

Oh well, happy birthday belated - another sub will pop up!

[muon*]

Bought a tube pre from Aliexpress, complete rubbish, now in bits waiting for a rebuild that may never happen, $400+ wasted.

[HamSolo]

5 minutes ago, Steff said:

Not exactly a nice drive either.

Oh well, happy birthday belated - another sub will pop up!

It's not a nice drive no, but at least we went via a party to celebrate a team mate of ours winning double golds in the world's most prestigious jiu jitsu competition. Life is fool with curve balls

Also, I probably didn't need another sub and got a set of Emotiva ERD-1's instead. Win-win!

[HamSolo]

10 minutes ago, muon* said:

Bought a tube pre from Aliexpress, complete rubbish, now in bits waiting for a rebuild that may never happen, $400+ wasted.

Perhaps partially worth the gamble though, and considered during the purchase?

That said, the sub seller offered me $20 for fuel (declined). And I don't really mind spending time with my wife.

 

It was just the weirdness of it all that hurt a bit. Normally only FBM sellers get mucked around.

[pete_mac]

“Terrible mistake”… I wonder if the seller received a better offfer? Wouldn’t be the first time that something suddenly becomes unavailable. 

[Cloth Ears]

Still waiting for that pair of Accuton C88-6 midbasses. Only about 21 years...mail is very slow!

[BLAH BLAH]

These were a major purcha$e disappointment. As a teenager, was so looking forward to testing these out.

 

[Cloth Ears]

30 minutes ago, BLAH BLAH said:

These were a major purcha$e disappointment. As a teenager, was so looking forward to testing these out.

 

I liked the look of Mrs Sea Monkey - such a disappointment!

[muon*]

5 hours ago, Cloth Ears said:

I liked the look of Mrs Sea Monkey - such a disappointment!

Yup, we got taken by the Sea Monkey one back in the 70's.

 

Bloody Brine shrimp.

 

I had a lot better success with breeding hatching them years later, as food for my aquarium fish.

Edited August 27, 2024 by muon*

[Jakeyb77_Redux]

I bought some Viagra online. Turned out to be fake. Talk about flop 

[Cloth Ears]

41 minutes ago, muon* said:

I had a lot better success with breading them years later, as food for my aquarium fish.

Never thought of that. Easy or do you need a separate set-up?

[Jakeyb77_Redux]

54 minutes ago, muon* said:

Yup, we got taken by the Sea Monkey one back in the 70's.

 

Bloody Brine shrimp.

 

I had a lot better success with breading them years later, as food for my aquarium fish.

your fish ate them breaded? Classy fish. I’d just go for battered

[muon*]

1 hour ago, Cloth Ears said:

Never thought of that. Easy or do you need a separate set-up?

Just a small bare tank with salty water.

 

Been near 40 years so details are vague, should be easy enough to find all you need these days with the internet.

 

Edit: heaps of sites with how to. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Breeding+brine+shrimp&atb=v386-1&ia=web

 

IF I recall correctly I used to buy adult brine shrimp for my adult fish, but hatched brine shrimp for fry, so I didn't grow any myself.

Edited August 27, 2024 by muon*

[crisis]

4 hours ago, Cloth Ears said:

I liked the look of Mrs Sea Monkey - such a disappointment!

We had them! But couldn't get the pricks to do any of the tricks, much less see them.....

[wartman]

Ordered a new laser assembly for a CD player from AliExpress.

Arrived in an unprotected plastic bag.

Looked like it had been run over.

Straight into the bin.

[sonybin]

This is too irresponsible and has no integrity

Edited August 28, 2024 by sonybin

[sonybin]

This kind of merchant should be exposed

Edited August 28, 2024 by sonybin

[audiofeline]

2 hours ago, wartman said:

Ordered a new laser assembly for a CD player from AliExpress.

Arrived in an unprotected plastic bag.

Looked like it had been run over.

Straight into the bin.

You could have put a claim in for this, they would want to see a photo with the packing.  I've found AliExpress to be reasonably reliable when making claims, sometimes they will try to give a part-refund, but for something like this it should be quite clear. 

 

Edited August 28, 2024 by audiofeline

[Darryl]

2 hours ago, wartman said:

Ordered a new laser assembly for a CD player from AliExpress.

Arrived in an unprotected plastic bag.

Looked like it had been run over.

Straight into the bin.

Just like the laser assembly I bought from ebay seller buyonline2018

 

Arrived in an unprotected plastic bag, smashed.

 

Dicks like this know how to play the ebay game, stringing out the claim, until you can't get your money back, and negative feedback is deleted by ebay!. I rarely use ebay anymore, and certainly buy nothing directly from China.

[wartman]

3 hours ago, audiofeline said:

You could have put a claim in for this, they would want to see a photo with the packing.  I've found AliExpress to be reasonably reliable when making claims, sometimes they will try to give a part-refund, but for something like this it should be quite clear. 

 

It was only small money thankfully, I  couldn't be bothered chasing it up.

Just another lesson for me.

[mrbuzzardstubble]

On 27/08/2024 at 2:26 PM, Cloth Ears said:

I liked the look of Mrs Sea Monkey - such a disappointment!

I remember those ads. This was the one I was interested in. AUKUS SCHMAUKUS 

Edited August 29, 2024 by mrbuzzardstubble

[Cloth Ears]

5 hours ago, mrbuzzardstubble said:

I remember those ads. This was the one I was interested in. AUKUS SCHMAUKUS 

Didn't someone take one of these down to view the Titanic?