Buyer Beware: PriusOverlanding is a scam

Whenever you're in doubt and the seller doesn't come through with whatever they promised, you have a right to do a chargeback. Do it in the timeframe the bank allows and don't go outside that timeframe. At the end of the day, you are all strangers in an imperfect world. Don't be too nice and let your guard down.

 

To the seller's credit, he works really hard on this stuff and is not a big business but doing a lot with limited resources. I'll message him for you and hope he's able to make this right for you. He's a super ambitious dude and sometimes can't as well manage the setbacks that a well-funded business faces.

 

You need to protect yourself and contact your card issuer. If the merchant comes through after that the charge back can be reversed. You weren’t the one to make the business decisions that has led to the problems the merchant is having, don’t accept responsibility for them.

 

As a small business owner myself this type of behavior is completely inexcusable. I have had to eat losses many times, as I would never leave a customer in the dark after processing their card. Don’t wait another minute to do a charge back because you’ve given the seller WAY too much time to sort this out. It’s important to get honest feedback no matter who is friends with who on this forum.

 

You've pretty much said who it was by providing the business name, which you were correct in doing, I think.

Being a small business owner yourself, you probably know how long it should take to refund your money.
No one cares about his bad decisions.... it is not important. He should have never mentioned it... but he did.

There should be a line between business and personal. He hasn't even mentioned about refunding your money
or sending the item(s) you paid for or given you a time frame. And are paying interest on by the way...

It is your decision to trust him to send the product, or refund your money. If you feel you'll receive neither,
contact your credit card company and explain the situation. They will probably instantly refund your money.

 

Use Paypal. If you don't get the product you ordered, they will get your money back. It happened to me.

 

i can't find a member by that name

 

What name are you referring to?

 

You can say the business owners name and it won’t a personal attack if you talk about the business aspect only. So what’s his name?

 

I would imagine you just need to search 'group buy springs', but that's just a guess

 

PriusOverlanding

 

No skin in this game but the thread is literally 4 threads down from this one

Gen 3 Prius Lifting Springs Group Buy? | PriusChat

 

ah, now it all makes sense. i've never seen so many nonsense threads and claims that are never accomplished

 

Amazing. Protecting a scam that has made almost 400 posts on this forum. It ranks right up there with the guy who posts about rolling back odos. The moderators need to step up their game. Even reporting posts does no good.

 

He's got lots of fabrication skills and is a hugely ambitious hard worker. The problem is he's trying to leverage customer purchases as financing for manufacturing, something mass production never does.

It's sad that he hasn't found the funding to build stuff in larger numbers first and then sell it. Myself and just about everyone I know who buys stuff online wants a charge notification from their bank to happen near same time as the tracking number of the package being sent. I'd be a huge nightmare if someone thought I'd wait weeks or months for something they already charged me for and they didn't communicate with me the delay issue beforehand.

 

sounds a lot like the priuschat shoppe

 

If you ain’t cheatin, you ain’t trying.

 

Is that what happened? Always wondered? Sure am glad I was able to buy the Gen2 Sunshields for all 8 windows back in 2013 before they stopped making all but the front ones. I'd be far, far less of a Prius camper without those!