Cissbury Leathers... Warning

[Haselsh1]

On April 16th 2009 I ordered from Cissbury Leathers via their website a Heritage Vintage M65 jacket in black. It is today 12th June 2009 and I have never received a thing from them. I have now contacted my credit card company only to be told it could take up to 90 days to resolve the problem.

All I can do is warn people against using such shops and dealers over the internet. My guess is that once again we have a dealer advertising something they simply do not have for sale. Stoneaudio is a typical example of this.

[Marco]

Sorry to hear of your problems, Shaun.

Arsebags... I can't stand people like that!

Marco.

[REM]

You can add this joker to the list of dick head shysters to avoid like the plague.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/y...ood-sound.html

This guy runs a website that claims to stock over 50 brands of audio gear and just about every lp in print, what a load of bollox. I don't think they carry any stock at all but they are quick enough to debit your c/c and when you try to call you just get an answer machine, they take their time replying to emails as well.
Avoid, you have been warned!!

Seems like it's not just me that's had a bad rap from them

http://community.whathifi.com/forums/t/199143.aspx

Regards

[Mr. C]

Alex does seem to polarise opinions

[Haselsh1]

Firstly, Marco, thanks for your concerns. I'm sure it will get sorted eventually but of course the fact is it shouldn't need to. All I wanted was the bloody jacket...!

Secondly, as this is a hi-fi forum, be very cautious of Stoneaudio. I ordered a Creek OBH-22 passive preamp from them a few months ago and was told by their website it would be dispatched within three days. After just over a week I decided to phone them to find out what the hell was going on. The response was that they would get one sent out by Creek immediately. Now I don't know about you but to me that immediately means they carry no stocks and deal only with the manufacturers or importers.

I was under the impression that here in the UK it is an offence under trading standard laws to advertise something you do not have. I run a shop and believe me, I cannot advertise items and products I do not have.

[DSJR]

Styli NZ could be added. I paid by paypal a low price (£17.50 - I should have known) for an AT30e stylus and waited and waited and waited.....

I left it a few months and when I finally got a reply to my emails I was told that it had been despatched three weeks after I ordered it. Because they finally replied after three months, it was too late to claim back apparently. I haven't tackled the credit card company, as they are jointly responsible and have now got some far better cartridges to play with, but it still niggles..

[Dave Cawley]

Guys

I was under the impression that here in the UK it is an offence under trading standard laws to advertise something you do not have. This isn't remotely true at all! And never has been.

However with a very fast growing business cash flow is always a problem and suppliers will often not ship product until the last payment has been made and cleared. I'm not suggesting that this is Alex's problem though.

Regards



Dave

[REM]

Guys

I was under the impression that here in the UK it is an offence under trading standard laws to advertise something you do not have. This isn't remotely true at all! And never has been.



Dave

That may very well be the case but debiting a credit card before the goods are shipped is doubtful practice at best and depending on the circumstances could be fraudulent.

[Dave Cawley]

Hi Ralph

I'm only correcting what you said. depending on the circumstances could be fraudulent. Err, yes! but that applies to everything!

Dave

[Steve Toy]

I am not happy about members slagging off dealers without having a specific unresolved complaint. This applies to comments about Audio Affair