Don't do it. Get your money and buy it again in a few weeks (giving time for a replacement to come, if they did send it).
Whatever inventory/backend system they have seems to be sort of broken. I just checked and it I got the exact same email twice for my first order and then the same email five(!) times for the second order. This is merely speculation but if I had to hazard a guess I'd say that their system sends an email everytime someone messes with an order.
In any case, I'm with brted. You can always close a PP dispute, no harm, no foul.
Anybody who has experience with this company, please don't forget to give them a star rating here:
http://budgetlightforum.cz.cc/node/1740
I'll also link to this thread from there.
Sorry, I didn't realize there was already a sticky. I looked and must have missed it.
Not a problem, I just mentioned it so that everyone can update the star rating.
These knives available on DiscoveryBargain are described as Bee EL01A and Bee EL01B, but show photos of the cheaper and smaller Bee L01:
http://www.discoverybargain.com/product/HT00441S/BEE_EL01A_Knife_(Silver)_29728.html
http://www.discoverybargain.com/product/HT00441B/BEE_EL01B_Knife_(Black)_29728.html
Looks like classic bait-and-switch to me. I sent DB a message through PayPal about this apparent fraud. BTW, earlier they wanted $1.70 for tracking to "resend" an EL01B, but now it looks like they really intended to send me an L01. I asked them to explain themselves.
They used to list the EL01 with the correct photos; I just recently noticed the picture difference. Looks like a plain goof-up to me. Wrong pictures/descriptions are common on other sites, too. I just recently emailed Focalprice to clarify a similar issue, and they are generally very good. Always need to be on your toes with these budget dealers.
I've bought goods from this web about five times, good seller. But for EL01, the description about color on their web is wrong,there's only one color silver offered on the web.
looks like a mirror to focal
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Too bad, I'm waiting on an order for 3 knives I made a few days ago. Anybody else getting the Chinese characters?
They seem to be having some technical issues w/ hosting.
Thanks for the confirmation.
I emailed them a week ago or so and they advised their issues were due to a DDOS attack. I haven't been able to access their website these past few days either.
2 my orders (ordered in last 3 months) from them arrived without problems and relatively fast.
I never did get the 4 knives ($45) I ordered in april. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and went past my 45 days (paypal) and I got screwed.
So Discovery Bargain gets 2 thumbs down and
2 middle fingers up from me.
Now I won't make the same mistake.
Ron
My order went from "already pay" to "already delivery". I have sent 2 questions to them and received no replies. They haven't sent a tracking number or any emails at all. They did take my PayPal money though... Anyone know the order processing steps they use? Should I be concerned?
Ron
Ron:
According to my aknowledge for their website, the order over $20 will be send out by Register Airmail, with tracking number. Otherewise there is no tracking number.
Your order placed at April and order amount is $45, it should be a tracking number for your order. Have you trace your order with the tracking number?