belugawhaleman Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Ordered an item from Kitlinx on Tuesday. It was listed as "One in stock ships immediately". An hour after ordering one reappeared in stock stating again, " ships immediately ". After a two-day wait for a notice of shipping, I inquired as to the shipping.......... I was told my order would ship " next week". So I gather their claim as it being in stock was false and that it would ship immediately was deliberately misleading. No way to do business. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Thank you for the heads up, in Today's market is so saturated that there's no need to waste time with dishonest retailers. My ignore list is long-lasting proof of it. PS: they will probably blame it on Covid crisis 🤦♂️ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 13 minutes ago, Martinnfb said: Thank you for the heads up, in Today's market is so saturated that there's no need to waste time with dishonest retailers. My ignore list is long-lasting proof of it. PS: they will probably blame it on Covid crisis 🤦♂️ Covid, or Putin's war..........wait a minute those are the white house tag lines! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 Sad but true and like Martin, I keep notes on who to buy from and who not. I most likely buy 95% of my kits and AM from three vendors, who service and operation are first class and very quick. Thanks for the heads up Keep 'em comin Peter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 Happening everywhere. I buy something on Amazon with Prime. Use to be here in two days. Now I’m lucky if it ships out in two days. Wife told me (in the 11th hour) to order some really nice water shoes for a cruise we were going on last week. So I look them up online and it says 2 day shipping. Not a problem. It’s Monday morning, leaving the following Sunday morning. B@$**#ds didn’t ship them until Friday and the delivered them to my house when I was in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landlubber Mike Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 Never buy from Kitlinx. I ordered two Taurus resin engines from them - shown in stock, shown shipped, but weren't in the box that arrived. I emailed Kitlinx multiple times, including Loic the owner himself, and never heard back from them. They essentially stole close to $100 from me. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted June 11 Author Share Posted June 11 Now I'm being told that the item was in stock at their other store and it should take A day to get to the main store (I texted Loic ) I asked if he could ship me direct from the other store. No reply. I now have an estimated arrival date of June 19. We'll see. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 It's been over a week and the item listed as being " one in stock for immediate shipment " Hasn't been shipped yet. I find that items listed that way are just not in stock. In fact, don't trust anything as being in stock from this seller. I've emailed them and Texted loic. no more replies. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Bad news and from the response on our site, I wouldn't venture to purchase anything from them. 🤧 Keep 'em comin Peter 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Unfortunately I have read more bad than good about that site Hubert 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 I believe I posted about them some time last year. I tried twice. And both times I was very disappointed. Buyer be ware....harv 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 Update: after many emails and texts they now claim it's been shipped today. My Guess is that they simply created a shipping label to shut me up. We shall see. If All is kosher, fine, but I'll never do business with them again. Incidentally I emailed A different site that lists many kits that are not available anywhere else (mostly Takom) If they could verify that the item I wanted was in stock. They did not answer my email. I tried ordering a kit from them over a year ago that they listed as in stock .....it wasn't so I canceled the order. I won't give the outfits name....I'll try calling them.. But honestly, I think it's another trick. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Sorry to say, I wouldn't put it passed them....harv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 We should hava a name and shame thread, to help other members avoid the same issues going forward. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty44 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 I used to really enjoy Great Models Webstore. What a shame. I have seen their prices are absurd as well. Scalehobbyist and Sprue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landlubber Mike Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 9 hours ago, Drifter said: We should hava a name and shame thread, to help other members avoid the same issues going forward. Agree with this 100% 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted June 19 Author Share Posted June 19 After all this trouble, UPS.....the outfit I always have trouble with... Said the delivery attempt.... "Failed" and I'll have to wait some more. This always happens on Friday afternoons or if the delivery time coincides with the driver's lunchbreak. This has Happened 3 times and I've always been at home during the "attempt". One time, they delivered my package to a neighboring apartment building; A package with a $160.00 model in it. Fortunately, the building's manager discovered the mistake and brought it to me. We'll see what happens to this, and the two other packages that they were supposed to deliver. The last time, I had to drive to a CVS pharmacy to pick up packages that were supposed to be delivered on a friday.... Friday the 13 it turns out.... I had to go the next day and the following Monday....two trips.... To pick up packages that I paid to have delivered to my home! When I picked up first package, the girl at CVS stated " we get a lot of this with Friday deliveries ", and seemed to know who the deliverer might be! I used to think FedEx sucked, now I have a better opinion of them, no problems lately. The postal service,....no problem. It's UPS that is setting new standards of shoddy service and laziness in their deliveries. I wish you luck with them, I have had nothing but problems lately with them! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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