Pellet order gone wrong, need opinions.

[triggertreat]

I would contact the seller and see if they are decent enough to work with you. You did order used, so to speak, and relied on unprofessional packaging. You also did receive the package and have lots of pellets, which you desired. Maybe the seller will meet you halfway. If not, learn from this experience. It is not worth risking a spot in Heaven to get ugly over this. Be the better man.

 

[2fast2furious]

The question i wanna know is, why are you scalping? Pellets are already low is stock and hard to find. Yet you buy over 60 tins to resale higher price to make profit. Thats call scalping. During this time of covid too many scalpers trying to screw others. Smh

Call it what you want. You have an opinion and are entitled to it.

So the vendors that buy wholesale and mark up their products are scalpers? Please explain to me the difference? There is none. That's how retail businesses make money.

I'm guessing you don't know what a scalper is. These vendors and dealer selling these items are not scalper. They do order bulk from company and sell them at retail price and take a cut from it. Scalper is buying bulk of item that are in demand and selling higher price to make a profit. As of now, pellets are becoming hard to get, most dealers are low or out of stock. So buying bulk and selling for a profit, that is what a scalper is. Not sure why you are comparing dealers to scalper. Smh. No way you are buying 60 plus tin of pellets and selling back at retail value. Then you won't make any profit and lose in shipping to the buyers. Only way you doing this is cause you are gonna sell these pellet at higher price and make a profit from it. Aka scalper 

 

[Longfellow]

I find it interesting how you're not willing to identify the person who sold you the pellets. Had you been forthcoming enough to do that, you might have saved someone else the problem you're having. 

 

[ChrisG]

I find it interesting how you're not willing to identify the person who sold you the pellets. Had you been forthcoming enough to do that, you might have saved someone else the problem you're having.

The seller hasn't told me he won't work with me yet is why. He wants pics. But when I told him of the issue he didn't offer any resolution. So it had me a bit worried. We will see what happens.

 

[ChrisG]

The question i wanna know is, why are you scalping? Pellets are already low is stock and hard to find. Yet you buy over 60 tins to resale higher price to make profit. Thats call scalping. During this time of covid too many scalpers trying to screw others. Smh

Call it what you want. You have an opinion and are entitled to it.

So the vendors that buy wholesale and mark up their products are scalpers? Please explain to me the difference? There is none. That's how retail businesses make money.

I'm guessing you don't know what a scalper is. These vendors and dealer selling these items are not scalper. They do order bulk from company and sell them at retail price and take a cut from it. Scalper is buying bulk of item that are in demand and selling higher price to make a profit. As of now, pellets are becoming hard to get, most dealers are low or out of stock. So buying bulk and selling for a profit, that is what a scalper is. Not sure why you are comparing dealers to scalper. Smh. No way you are buying 60 plus tin of pellets and selling back at retail value. Then you won't make any profit and lose in shipping to the buyers. Only way you doing this is cause you are gonna sell these pellet at higher price and make a profit from it. Aka scalper 

You obviously don't know how to Read. I said buy lots in bulk for the discounts. I don't buy large lots at regular prices. So that blows your scalper theory out of the water. I do exactly what the retailers do. Buy at discount at discount and resell to make a profit.

So if I buy a large lot at a discount, keep some it and sell the rest off to cover my cost I'm a scalper? More than half the people selling Pellets here have sold old stock at current market rates, double to triple the original cost. Does that make them scalpers? 

 

[Longfellow]

 

[fatmatic]

The question i wanna know is, why are you scalping? Pellets are already low is stock and hard to find. Yet you buy over 60 tins to resale higher price to make profit. Thats call scalping. During this time of covid too many scalpers trying to screw others. Smh

Nobody said you have to buy any at all from him...

 

[John "spysir" Blount]

As the dealers do sell at reduced "dent" price.

John

 

[davelarson]

If you packed pellets poorly and then balked at the idea of a refund you would be in the wrong in my opinion. I would hope that a fellow member here would simply fix the mistake they made, ( poor packaging ). It seems like this is a easy thing to remedy, really easy. Remedied between you two, and only mentioned here if it goes wrong. That’s when you address it here after trying to make it right but getting nowhere. This way it just seems like you are trying to embarrass the person into doing the right thing. Just my opinion.

 

[sillymike]

The other issue is the seller did not get insurance on the package. $600+ order and no insurance. Don't know if the insurance would even cover something like this since damage was caused mainly by the packing job?

silly question: Did you ask for, request insurance?

 

[Vetmx]

The other issue is the seller did not get insurance on the package. $600+ order and no insurance. Don't know if the insurance would even cover something like this since damage was caused mainly by the packing job?

silly question: Did you ask for, request insurance?

Probably not. It would cut into his profit margin. 

 

[ChrisG]

If you packed pellets poorly and then balked at the idea of a refund you would be in the wrong in my opinion. I would hope that a fellow member here would simply fix the mistake they made, ( poor packaging ). It seems like this is a easy thing to remedy, really easy. Remedied between you two, and only mentioned here if it goes wrong. That’s when you address it here after trying to make it right but getting nowhere. This way it just seems like you are trying to embarrass the person into doing the right thing. Just my opinion.

You obviously didn't read why I posted the issue. There were NO names mentioned for a reason. If I contacted you and told you of the issue at hand and you offered NO remedy, that's going to have me worried a bit. Sorry if I thought I was possibly getting burned when I posted. I still don't know what's going to happen?

 

[ChrisG]

The other issue is the seller did not get insurance on the package. $600+ order and no insurance. Don't know if the insurance would even cover something like this since damage was caused mainly by the packing job?

silly question: Did you ask for, request insurance?

Probably not. It would cut into his profit margin. 

If insurance is not provided it's the Seller who is trying to save a buck. I always request and provide insurance and expect it on high dollar orders. I shouldn't have to ask for insurance on high dollar orders it should be included. If not, I should be given the option to get it. The seller admitted they forgot and should have gotten the insurance, but they weren't given the option when they purchased the lable. That's the answer I got about the insurance.

 

[sillymike]

Well, if the seller admits that " he forgot" the insurance and he did a sloppy-job packaging... I'd expect him/her to take ownership of the situation.

 

[thumper]

Why not just shoot em? 

You have $300 worth of $600 of pellets, why not just use em? 

If you wanted to buy and resale because that's how business/capitalism/whatever works, then you should know that business doesn't always turn a profit. 

No sense in talking to us, we didn't sell em to you. Talk to your "distributor" you got them from. 

You are the "dealer" in this venture. 

The market made up by us "consumers" are the ones that will decide what they are worth if you put them up for sale. 

 

[ChrisG]

Why not just shoot em? 

You have $300 worth of $600 of pellets, why not just use em? 

If you wanted to buy and resale because that's how business/capitalism/whatever works, then you should know that business doesn't always turn a profit. 

No sense in talking to us, we didn't sell em to you. Talk to your "distributor" you got them from. 

You are the "dealer" in this venture. 

The market made up by us "consumers" are the ones that will decide what they are worth if you put them up for sale. 

Actually I'm the consumer until I offer them for sale. Plus as I stated before I planned to keep a few tins as well. 

 

[BigTinBoat]

Why not just shoot em? 

You have $300 worth of $600 of pellets, why not just use em? 

If you wanted to buy and resale because that's how business/capitalism/whatever works, then you should know that business doesn't always turn a profit. 

No sense in talking to us, we didn't sell em to you. Talk to your "distributor" you got them from. 

You are the "dealer" in this venture. 

The market made up by us "consumers" are the ones that will decide what they are worth if you put them up for sale. 

Actually I'm the consumer until I offer them for sale. Plus as I stated before I planned to keep a few tins as well.

So those signs I see on telephone poles says "We Buy Houses - Cash". Or at the car lot - "Top $$ for your car" are consumers? I mean until they flip the house, or car? Seems from your recent posts that's you have had this "plan" for a while. Repacking? 

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I honestly think this post will do nothing but hurt your "business". Should have handled it privately with the seller(s). I'm all for capitalism, but as an FYI make sure you keep good records and report your income to the appropriate authorities.

 

[cmatera]

Kind of like the drug dealer calling the cops because someone stole their drugs.

 

[Longfellow]

Kind of like the drug dealer calling the cops because someone stole their drugs.

No kidding. The scalper got scalped by a worse scalper. Oh, the irony............

 

[GeneT]

This thread makes me despair. Good on you ChrisG - may you profit amid the whiny entitled that seem to think that, somehow, you owe them free pellets.

GsT