On 11/07/2014 16:43, 'Mike' wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message ...

On 2014-07-11 13:21:19 +0000, stuart noble said:

On 11/07/2014 14:01, Sacha wrote:
On 2014-07-11 10:44:04 +0000, News said:
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I've been buying online for many years and have only ever had an
unsolved problem with one company - coincidentally gardening related -
and that was Ideal World's gardening offshoot. Needless to say, I
haven't done business with them again.

You've just demonstrated why people offering mail order have to send out
good quality or lose cutomers. Word of mouth is a powerful tool!
snipTrying to palm off shoddy goods by mail order
is a quick way to lose business or fail altogether.

Which is why the EBay feedback system generally works very well.
Nobody wants to risk negative comments

Yes, it does. Someone once tried it on with me and I said so. She spat
tacks but it wasn't the first time she'd done it to others and a month
or two later she was dropped as an eBay seller.

It's because idiots don't bother to kick up a fuss and just walk away
after getting riped off that this sort of thing goes on.

Makes me think of the Irish man who went to watch Greyhound racing. in
the 4th race Irish luck romped home, so he went to see the owner to buy
the dog off him.
Well a few days later the dog was due to be delivered to him when he got
a phone call form the owner to say the dog had died.
"Don't worry Sor" said Paddy "I'll still have him".
A few months later Paddy met up with the man he'd bought the greyhound off.
"What did you do with the dog Paddy?
"Well Sor" said Paddy "I had 1,000 raffle tickets at £5.00 a ticket, and
sold them all".
"But what about the person who won it, he wouldn't be happy with a dead
dog".
"He wasn't Sor, so I gave him his money back".