LET THE BUYER BEWARE
LET THE BUYER BEWARE
Order # 205-8717776-1767502
There is nothing positive to be said in regard to my interaction with Get Off Road.
After ordering an axle set of Suplex coil springs from a purported stock availability of four, I was advised, based on their correspondence, that their system of stock control is not fit for purpose.
Also, for the reason that their listing on Amazon Marketplace misrepresented the accurate stock position, Get Off Road were unable to fulfil my order for two springs. More than twenty-four hours would elapse before Get Off Road removed their Amazon Marketplace listing for the other two springs they were unable to supply.
The far more concerning aspect to the transaction involves the processing of my payment. The email correspondence from Get Off Road provides that in concert with Amazon, my payment was taken from my debit card after it was realised that the order was not to be satisfied. Apparently, a common practice.
Not in my view an act of good faith. In this event Amazon knowingly made a drawdown of funds to which it or the Marketplace merchant was not entitled. Drawdown of funds is clearly contingent on the order being fulfilled. The drawdown of the previously authorised payment ought only to occur at the point where the goods are dispatch ready.
It also seems to me that, within their refund policies and procedures, Amazon are negating consumer rights whereby unfair contract terms replace the most elemental protections in contract, consumer and common law. Additionally, contractual burdens are immediately placed upon the consumer while Amazon and its Marketplace affiliates, not bound by contract, enjoy the freedom to act with impunity.
October 11, 2022
Unprompted review