tfidownunder (Australia) feedback

[Micktimus]

Hi guys

Has anyone had any communication from this guy, he still owes me $180 for cancelled preorders and isn't replying on Facebook.

If anyone knows the guy can you tell him to check his messages.

[Borgeman]

Hi guys

Has anyone had any communication from this guy, he still owes me $180 for cancelled preorders and isn't replying on Facebook.

If anyone knows the guy can you tell him to check his messages.

I'll quote myself from a previous post on the same thing:

Do everything you can to get your money back. They are just another failed entity who mishandled customer money, so just get it back. Don't wait for them - your money is GONE. They used your money as capital to obtain other stock to sell in the meantime. That stock hasn't all sold, so they were left owing suppliers money for your order. They fell in a hole, and now they're refunding people bit by bit as any money comes in. You could be then next one refunded, you could be 100th in the queue waiting months. Don't bother waiting for a reply as it doesn't change your chances of a refund.

Depending on how you paid, your options are these:

If you used PayPal, start a dispute today. Get the process rolling with them - you have all this evidence already of them not replying to you, so you're set.
Furthermore, if you used a credit card to pay via PayPal, talk to your bank about your potential options for doing a charge back on your credit card - if the PayPal dispute stalls you can then initiate a charge back direct with the bank.

If you paid via direct deposit... you might be at the mercy of the gods. Talk to the bank about what options might exist, but I don't know if there are any, but use this as a lesson to always use a credit based option when shopping online for expensive items.

[Micktimus]

Thanks for the reply, I was worried from the start when they cancelled all the preorders, but I had hope when he refunded one items straight away and then gave me in stock items as part refund.

But since the 22nd june I havnt heard anything from them.

[Micktimus]

They have cancelled there ABN so I guess I'm screwed.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Ouch. Have you tried ACCC?

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

They have cancelled there ABN so I guess I'm screwed.

Damn! Since the 10th of June as well!

Keep on trying! That's about the only thing you can do! Talk to paypal, your bank, anything and any way you can to try to recover your money!

[DaptoDog]

It's unconscionable that their website is still operating.

[Micktimus]

I just sent an email off to the ACCC so ill wait on that, yeah his website is still up and his Facebook page, he would be still trying to sell the little stock he has left not that any of that money is making its way to the customers he's burnt.

Its just really irritating I work hard for my money and I hate getting ripped off.

[SuspectimusPrime]

This is bad comedy. They should have cut their losses lonnnggg ago rather than assume that the same model that didn't work when they a) had more money(?), b) a slightly more optimistic customer base, and c) better economic conditions to work with, will work now.

[Borgeman]

They have cancelled there ABN so I guess I'm screwed.

Not yet. Teat it like any old failed ebay auction where the seller is being a prick. Follow the options i outlined and cross you fingers!