Bought a shelter off someone here...

Hi, I bought a MLD shelter off someone on this forum a few days ago and they forgot to inform me that the apparent "condition is very good" had one of the tie out areas on one corner having an inch or so rip in a fairly critical point imo

The shelter is made out of spinntex, and other than the stuff sack theres no spare material to make a patch of sorts and I don't want to make a pigs ear out of it as I'm not a seamstress. I can see what I need to do but it's not going to be a true perfect finish and am concerned about taughtness

Any tips plse?

ta

Name and shame.

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Have you contacted the seller.

Sean from Oookworks could probaly fix it for a reasonbel price, get the seller to pay for the repair and any shipping costs.

You might be better off returning thr item.

Not good, and i'd be asking for an explanation. 

As for repair, i'm sure Mrs Nesbit could advise you. 

Edit: Stephen beat me to it.

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ask for your money back.

Thanks for the support all.

Asking for the money back is probably the best idea, I wouldn't have bought it with an issue tbh. Paid by paypal what I feel is a decent price for a spinn MLD patrol of £83 including delivery and then find out the guy works literally 100 metres away from me. He dropped it off - after 3 days.

Have let him know but he hasn't logged in and checked his message yet - how do I know if he has ?

Or do you think £83 is a decent price and I should just keep it and tape / fix it ?

Thanks

file a complaint with paypal..
And name and shame if he doesnt cogh up.

Were you thinking of bodging it with this stuff? Might do it for a while but how much would you trust it? I'd want a full refund or at least reimbursement for a good repair job. Be interesting to hear the seller's side of the tale.

I recently responded to a private sale on here to buy a tent. We agreed a price - it was a good bargain from my point of view, then the seller withdraw as 'a mate had offered a lot more'. That was after we had shaken hands (albeit virtually) on the deal. I was surprised that someone on here could act in such a way.

Good luck - keep us posted!

The seller was me, and it was a genuine mistake, for which, Mike, I'm very sorry. I didn't know it was damaged, I've never used it, only pitched it once.

I am however annoyed at how you've chosen to deal with this. I've replied to your message, which you sent barely 20 minutes before posting this thread. Here is a copy of it for all to see, seeing as we're making this public. I suggest we now take it to private message?

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Mike

I'm so sorry about the condition. I bought this shelter off someone on this forum, I pitched it in the garden once and didn't see anything wrong with it. I knew I didn't want it so sold it on. I did not see or know there was anything wrong with it, if I did why on earth would I have sold this on? This was a genuine mistake, once again I'm sorry about this.

However, I think its particularly unfair you have already started a thread complaining about this when it was a genuine mistake and I only dropped this off at your office yesterday. This is not how things should be done.

You sent me a message at 18.03 and posted the thread at 18.22. That in my view is completely out of line. I would have appreciated a chance to reply to your message. Most people would give 24 hours to reply at least. I'm replying to your message now as its the first time I've logged on since dropping this off to you (at lunchtime yesterday). 19 minutes notice is completely unreasonable. And now as a result you are airing our dirty laundry for all to see.

If you drop this off to me I will give you a full refund, alternatively I will pay for this to be fixed. Please let me know how you would like to proceed

Regards

Well Ben, I personally wouldn't sell to a complete stranger unless I knew the condition 100% of the gear I was selling.

I never mentioned your username, I was seeking advice on how to repair it.

I'll take you up on your offer of a full refund and will drop it off soon. In all fairness to the shelter it's actually had alot of use if going by the dyneema has anything to do with it.

In advance

Mike

Ben, not my problem i know but no damage has been done here imo as you've "owned up" to the mistake on the forum and done the right thing, that being the case i can't see why anyone would hold it against you, quite the opposite i'd think as future buyers will know if they have any issue you're willing to sort it.

That's my view anyway. 

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Mike, it was the tone of your first sentence (in your first post) that initially got my back up. Your second post didn't help either.

To be clear, I'm sorry, if I knew it had an issue I wouldn't have sold it to you

Please drop me a message with how/when you are going to proceed


Twiglegs - thanks