[ot]Airing out the dirty laundry

[marquez337 at yahoo.com (Marko)]

Well I am tired of waiting for this guy. 

For some crazy reason, he can no longer respond to my
emails. Its been a month now and there is no
communication. This deal started in June. I don't care
if he is a popular figure on this list and a pillar of
the rocco community. As a fellow lister said to me, "
a rat is a rat." This seller did not do right by me
and now here comes the story....

I got this nice 84Jetta w/a 16V. Really clean for a
car w/360K miles on it. So I asked around for Euro
Jetta lights, and this guy is known for getting the
goods and cheaply too. So he quotes me $240 shipped
for new lights, corners, grill and plastic surrounds.
Great price, I am psyched to get them and send the
check out right away. 

The package arrives packed well and I check out the
stuff. For some crazy reason I thought that the grill
was gonna be new too, but thats not my beef at all. It
did have a busted tab, but not a biggie. Everything is
in good shape and the lights are brand new. 

I got help installing them at a guy's house that I met
from vortex. We take off the old lights and soon
realize that the left Euro light is wrong. Its not an
H4 lens. It looks like the correct part and even says
jetta light but, does not accept H4  bulbs, it takes
T8s. The two hella boxes are different for the right
and left lenses.

At this point I am bummed b/c I have the American spec
lights out and cannot put in the Euros. The guy that
is helping me also has a Mk1 Jetta and the left Euro
lens. He lends me the light just so we can finish the
job. 

Soon after I tell Dirk Schnieder (the seller) about
the mix up. He offers to send me another lens after I
send pics providing proof of the mix up. I go ahead
and win an action on German eBay for the lens and get
it shipped for $39 Euros. I wanna replace the one that
was lent to me asap. Later I send a dozen pics of the
bad light to Dirk and have not heard from him since. 

WTF ? In one email he tells me something to the effect
that its not his fault. I tell him to send me $50 to
make this right. He sent the wrong part and that the
size of things. I paid for two new lights and have one
new and one old.

Am I outta line to expect some cash back ?









--- Mike Weiler <relbrb@comcast.net> wrote:
> My wife tells me this.....Woman got to a store to
> purchase items they want
> (shopping its called). Men order stuff on the
> internet then spend alot of
> time bitching about how much they hate how either
> the transaction went or
> the product they recieved. Go figure and I discount
> any woman I meet 230 IQ
> points when she speaks the first time hehe.

=====
87 Scirocco 8v
84 Jetta 16v

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