Sorted

A lot happened very quickly after I’d filed the claim for a refund for the unsuitable coolant expansion tank for my Savannah that I’d purchased from Ebay. The seller contacted me first thing this morning to say that there are two versions of this item and they’d supplied (ie I’d ordered) the wrong one. They said that if I’d been in the USA it would have been easy for me to have returned it for them to supply me with a replacement, but not so in France.

Under the circumstances they said that if I just paid for the Shipping ($40, about 35€) they would ship the other item and I could keep the one that I’ve already got. I thought that this was a very fair offer and there was only one complication – I’d already placed an order on Loravia for the Rotax part at a cost of 300€. I decided to see if I could cancel the order for a refund and Loravia agreed for a 10€ charge plus 12€ to cover the Paypal fee to return the remainder (290€) direct to my Paypal account. I agreed to that as the ‘fault’ was down to me and I’ve already received the refund.

The Chinese seller said that tomorrow they’ll give me an Ebay link to pay the $40 shipping charge which I will prefer compared to a direct Paypal transfer which will incur a charge, so after a bit of toing-and-froing (had a lot of that lately) the deal has been done. Now I’ll just have to wait a bit longer for the correct part to arrive. What a relief 😕