ORIGINAL: gravediggerracing
ORIGINAL: help-me
hi i brought a steel spur gear off ebay and had it all correctly fitted but the screws got ripped out and it was trash within a few tanks. so i sent it back and the bloke is saying i didnt use thread lock when i did and wont give me a refund so £34.99 wasted and i already left feed back when it come
is there anything i can do?
Ebay and Paypal will both side with the seller based upon what you have told us. The issue of threadlock won't matter to them. Now, if the gear you got happened to be all chewed up and destroyed, etc and it was auctioned/sold as new, well, then you'd have a case against the seller. It takes that kind of thing (amongst others) to get the attention of Ebay and Paypal.[8D]
I agree, they sent you a new spur and you trashed it. That's how e-bay and pay-pal will see it. As long as the seller sent you exactly what they said they would (and they must have because you left them positive feedback) then why would e-bay or pay-pal do anything??? Even if it's a less than perfect design you don't have a beef with the seller, they sent you what you asked for.
If you ask me, you should be complaining to the manufacturer, if anybody. Or just chalking it up as a life lesson that just because you spend a lot of money on something does not mean that it is necessarly better than something that's less expensive.