I am sure there's an art to this and I'm not quite sure if i have it down pat as yet. Have been shopping online a bit lately and have had instances of each of the following scenarios:
- Item delivered on time, all good.
- Item delivered on time, but found to be faulty. Refund issued.
- Wrong item delivered.
- Item not delivered (not sure if that relates to the wrong item above).
- Waiting a long time so you're not sure what you're waiting on..
- Item not actually available, sorry it's on backorder :/
Mind you, i did just do a bit of choose the lowest price + postage in AU, so maybe i deserve what i get. That being said, while i wait for my "Then Cups", i wanted to collate a list of my mistakes thus far. So, my amateur insight polished up as a cheap pro tips:
- Get the actual proper part number, in this case it's wl12428-0081
- Do a search on that, not some other weird description like "Then Cup"
- From the set of returns exclude any not in AU (use site:au at the end of the query)
- Evaluate their professionalism by some vague indeterminate metrics.
- Roll the die..
And thusly a list of suppliers of the wl12428-0081 part, ranked by um, yeah:
- http://www.worldhobbies.com.au/front-diff-outdrive-cup-then-cup
- https://www.alburyrcmodels.com.au/front-diff-outdrive-cup-then-cup
- http://www.modelengines.com.au/front-diff-outdrive-cup-then-cup
- https://www.supercheaphobbies.com.au/store/front-diff-outdrive-then-p-24100.html
- http://www.acehobbyaustralia.com.au/ which is reporting "503: Service Unavailable" so guess who's last.
So getting meta for a moment, isn't it curious how most of these sites use EXACTLY the same url, it's like they're not only using the same site, but the same data feed as well.
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