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JJ

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Beware / bowlingball.com
« on: December 24, 2007, 02:29:28 AM »
Bought a Venus from bowlingball.com on the 14th and received this morning. I had ordered a 3-4 inch pin and got a 1-1 1/2 pin. I don't understand how they could mess up a pin distance that bad. Their balls usually ship out of Florida but this one came from Calif. Needles to say I am very unhappy and will not use them again.
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2007, 10:31:25 AM »
Wow, that is very unlike bowlingball.com.. They have actually called me to tell me they did not have my pin distance or top weight and refunded my money back.. I am truly surprised.
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2007, 12:03:06 PM »
I have bought 15-20 balls from them and always got the exact specs I requested. I would contact them to see if they can correct your problem before posting something like this..
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2007, 01:35:10 PM »
themezz
I live in Il and Fla would be a lot closer than Calif,DUH,and it took 10 days to get here,DUH!
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2007, 01:44:44 PM »
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

I see themezz is in the Chirstmas spirit ;D
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2007, 01:54:46 PM »
He is in The Christmas spirit and so helpful,must be about 14 years old with they drop ship them from Calif comment.
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2007, 02:02:03 PM »
JJ

Contact them when they re-open, and let them know the problem, I am sure they will be more than happy to fix it.  Accidents can happen.
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2007, 02:11:57 PM »
Bill
I am going to contact them when they re-open and see what they will do. The last ball I ordered was a pro cg Odyssey and I requested the cg off to the left as I bowl right handed and I got one with the cg 3 inches to the right and the pro shop had to put a huge crater hole in it to make it legal.

 I like you guys and Bowling.com and have never had a problem with either one of you.

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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2007, 03:57:36 PM »
quote:
He is in The Christmas spirit and so helpful,must be about 14 years old with they drop ship them from Calif comment.
JJ



If themezz said it, he's usually correct. Just look at his profile. DUH.
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2007, 04:26:57 PM »
The venus is also been on the market for 18 months. they are pretty hard to find at every distributor. they might have to order they from RG then send them to the distributor.
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2007, 04:37:29 PM »
JJ, you are not alone. I ordered one, rec;d terrible specs. Foolishly believed accidents happen, and then ordered another one. It was even worse than the second. I won't use them anymore either. There are too many other places to buy gear that have very good reputations.
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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2007, 06:22:23 PM »
I just had little "problem" with them myself. I ordered some shoes last week, kept up w/ the tracking, and my info said that it was delivered. Checked my tracking against my records to compare and they were the same. So I called them, found out my package was shipped to my neighbor's house 3 doors down, and all is well.

I was a bit surprised that they chose to box my delivery using a Castrol GTX box...I had thought my neighbor tried to cover up if he openned my package lol

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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2007, 06:56:41 AM »
Hi all,

I will put my $0.02 in here after reading all of this.

I will admit that I made a mistake and not all of the notes were making it into our system.  I have corrected this situation, so that may have started JJ's bad experience.  Contact us and we will of course make it correct.

As most people on this board will attest, we normally do a great job with specs, especially when we do the shipping out of FL.  We obviously drop ship some products and those specs are normally met as well.  Again, I made a mistake with the notes section that has been fixed.

VIXIV, I am the one that told you of the mistake in addresses.  That also was a drop shipment, and unfortunately they hand type in addresses and miskeyed your house number.  I am confused by the Castrol box... Gotta cut costs somewhere I guess.

I love the feedback that we get, and am sorry to the people here that say they won't buy from us.  I understand if you had a bad experience that you wouldn't want to... Just would like you to know that we are available and would love a chance to re-earn your trust and business.

I will admit when I make a mistake, because lying about it doesn't make it better.  I am sorry for those that entered specs that we didn't receive.  It's hard for the warehouse to match the specs if they aren't there to begin with.

Thank you to the people that made it this far in this long post.  I really appreciate the patience.


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Re: Beware / bowlingball.com
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2007, 02:23:39 PM »
I have ordered only from bowlingball.com and bowling.com in the past 5 or 6 years. bowling.com surprised me to hell when I ordered certain specs for my Storm Pyro, they did not have them in stock and called my home three times until I was home to answer their call and they told me we don't have what you requested, but we have this, would you like this or wait until we order what you requested. I was absolutely blown away by the customer service. Maybe something to keep in mind bowlingball

And as for my bowlingball.com experience, I ordered one ball from there, it was at my door real fast I remember, and it was my favorite ball until I got a Paradigm Passion (It was my now antique El-Nino Gold...most versatile piece I may ever come across). But nothing but greatness from these two online vendors, two thumbs way up.
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