Post #395185 by TikiTres on Sat, Jul 19, 2008 8:01 PM

Good to hear your bro got his bar, it helps to be local to the seller :) Well here's my saga with this seller...

They mentioned in the auction that they had a matching shelf. When I won the auction I offered to buy the shelf and they sent me an invoice for the bar and shelf together. I paid it the same day and they said they'd ship the next day. They were very quick to respond to emails right up until I paid. From that point on it usually took 3 emails from me to get one response from them. A week later I asked if they had sent it off as I hadn't heard anything. I got some excuses, but bottom line was it had not shipped. A week later I emailed again, still hadn't heard anything. I was told they had shipped the bar and stools, but had not sent the shelf yet and would do so the next day. Another week and more emails and they claim it's all been sent. Another week goes by, still have received nothing and they don't respond to any of my emails this time. I finally just file a complaint with Paypal. In response they send Paypal a tracking number with FedEx (after telling me it was all shipped by Greyhound) dated the day of my complaint! That day I check with Greyhound and they had a big box, turned out to be the shelf. It's labeled box 2 of 2, no sign of box 1. It had been shipped 3 days before, not 2 weeks prior when the seller told me it had already been shipped. Then the FedEx package arrives a couple of days later, it's the stools. At this point the seller tells me they have another bar in a different color and offer to send it to me as a replacement for the missing black one. I decide I can recover the green fabric, so I accept their offer. They had already listed it on eBay and offered to pull the auction which I agreed to. 3 days later the auction successfully ends, they never pulled it! They said that eBay wouldn't let them, yet another in a series of many lies from this seller. Another week goes by and Paypal credits my account and I count myself super-lucky! I offer to pay them for the shelf and stools and then pay the rest when (if!) the bar arrives. They agree and I send them the payment. I continue to check every 3 or 4 days with Greyhound and keep emailing them to let them know I did so. No responses at all. I finally left neutral feedback (being generous I think!) So that's it, no bar but I did at least get my money back and I can work the shelf and stools in without the bar so it's not a total loss. I'm not mad or anything, I'm always mystified at these sellers who just flat-out lie like this. They were never rude or anything, just not truthful.

==My brother said they have quite a few of those bars and ton's of Herman Miller/Eames chairs.==

They sell repro wire bases for Eames chairs. They also sell originals from time to time as well.

==I need to drive down to my brothers and see how it looks in his place!==

Post pics if you get down there, that's a really unusual Tiki Farm prototype bar!

[ Edited by: TikiTres 2008-07-19 20:03 ]