What a moanbag. Must be a troll post. Must be. Or maybe forgot to take his pills this morning?
Clearly a troll.
The "must get a bargain" Hantek from China, for £250 ex VAT and import fees, vs a Rigol DS1054Z from a UK distributor for £299 including VAT, and then insisting on wanting to pay the full whack to HMRC after the seller marked down the CN22... Oh come on! Then moaning about a couple of days difference when timezones are way out... and the well known Chinese New Year. WTF?
Too easy. When I said gr8 b8 m8 (Great Bait Mate) in my previous post I thought it would end it, but some people clearly like feeding trolls.
If this guy really is genuine then god forbid Farnell who sell him a 555 timer and the spaztard can't get it to flash his LED. I bet he gets his personal Queen's Counsel high court barrister onto them.
Really? Name calling and personal insults? How mature.
What a moanbag. Must be a troll post. Must be. Or maybe forgot to take his pills this morning?
Clearly a troll.
The "must get a bargain" Hantek from China, for £250 ex VAT and import fees, vs a Rigol DS1054Z from a UK distributor for £299 including VAT, and then insisting on wanting to pay the full whack to HMRC after the seller marked down the CN22... Oh come on! Then moaning about a couple of days difference when timezones are way out... and the well known Chinese New Year. WTF?
Too easy. When I said gr8 b8 m8 (Great Bait Mate) in my previous post I thought it would end it, but some people clearly like feeding trolls.
If this guy really is genuine then god forbid Farnell who sell him a 555 timer and the spaztard can't get it to flash his LED. I bet he gets his personal Queen's Counsel high court barrister onto them.
Well said but if he's not a troll then hopefully the next time he hears a conversation about what's wrong with people today and their sense of entitlement.....................I hope that he knows that he is the problem they are talking about
Last but not least if he's for real it's going to bite him in the ass in the end big time.So let him be
Yes, I exercised my consumer rights under the distance selling regulations and I'm the biggest problem in the world today.
Never mind that I tried to cancel the purchase before any damage was done and was quite prepared to settle the matter long before the item ever got into the hands of DHL.
Not my fault the seller couldn't be straight or reasonable enough to work out a solution where neither party fell out of pocket. The fact that it was chinese new year has naff all to do with anything. If the seller was away then he should have stated this like other sellers do. E.g this seller is away until XXX and may not respond.
The seller could have replied to my cancellation request and informed me of the facts and we could have worked it out from there - but didn't.
And yes I was quite prepared to pay the full import duty with the actual price stated on the customs declaration. I have stated this all along. I would have preferred the full value stated.
Why is that so hard for peoplel to grasp? Just because I buy something cheap doesn't mean I'm a scammer or dishonest as people are trying to imply. So my budget for the item was £250. What does that prove? People seem to assume that's all the money I own in the world. That was the price I set for the item itself. Where did I say I couldn't afford the duty payments?
It seems it's okay to be dishonest when it's supposedly in my favour such as wrongly decalring the value of the item to customs but when I try to exercise my legal rights I'm a horrible customer and I'm dishonest and a "spaztard" out to rip off the seller who hardly has the best track record for honesty. It really does make me laugh!
I'm supposedly the problem with the world today and yet people can cherry pick and post on this thread about what is and isn't honest and righteous... Hahaha yeah right.
So it's okay to comit customs fraud and put them out of pocket because it's suposedly in my favor but try to exercise my legal rights and I'm a dishonest ebay scammer that's out on a mission to solely rip of chinese sellers because they're thousands of miles away.
Pfft. I'm selling moral compasses on ebay soon if anyone wants to buy any?
Nobody is out to get anything more than they were entitled to. I'd be quite happy if the item went back and nobody was out of pocket. I would prefer that. No doubt someone will try twisting that round to state I'm out to rip off all the sellers on ebay and that I'm a scammer.
Just to recap these ARE the facts:
1. I made a mistake by ordering and then later re-considering based on the stories I'd read about warranty problems and problems ordering from China in THIS thread:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hantek-tekway-dso-hack-get-200mhz-bw-for-free/ which I'd found while researching hantek in general and where I came across information for my friends Rigol hack.
2. I contacted the seller prior to the item being shipped to ask for a cancellation - something I have the right to do. I tried within reasonable time to halt the sale before any damage was done NOT to rip anyone off or circumvent customs.
3. The seller responded stating the item had been shipped when in fact it had only just been booked with DHL for collection and wasn't collected til 2 days later. The seller could have asked me to re-imburse any fees etc but didn't. That option or opportunity was never presented. I was told the item had been dispatched and that was the end of it.
4. My budget of £250 was for the item I never said anything about not being prepared to pay the full import amount for customs had the item been properly decalred. This has been assumed.
My complaint with the £16 ransom was purely because had the seller worked with me to resolve the cancellation before the item was shipped, I wouldn't have had to pay it at all.
So what if I opted to pay for a cheap chinese scope? What does that prove other than I didn't want to spend a massive amount on the item itself. At the time when I first made the transaction I was quite prepared to pay whatever in legal customs fees. I'm NOT a thief nor a fraudster as some keep advocating I should be by falsely declaring goods values to customs!
In the end, I wanted to back out - something I know to be my rights to do in THIS country. Nothing wrong with that despite what people think. If the rights are on my side, deal with it.
If it was buyer's remorse it was only fueled by a post that I read on THIS forum and is what made me reconsider buying from China in the end. £250 might not be a lot to some people but in the end I thought more about it and could forsee problems should anything be wrong with or go wrong with the unit. I decided in the end to find a UK seller where I wouldn't have problems despite what people say I would have an easier time dealing with a UK seller if problems were to occur.
Twist it round however you want to - keep on getting your panties in a twist - I really could care less. I know what happened, I know I'm an honest person - I'm not the one cherry picking and telling people certain dishonest practices are acceptible but honest ones like exercising ones legal rights are not. And people have the bottle to tell me I'M what's wrong with the world.. Seriously?
And as for caring about digntiy and credibilty on a forum full of people trying to tell me that breaking laws in my favour is okay? Bwahahahahahaha
Don't worry, I'll be sure to keep y'all updated. Have a nice day now!