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Old 04-01-2016, 09:47 PM
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Good day all!!!

I just have to share this with everyone!! Maybe it is me expecting too much!! Oh, I don't know... Am I over reacting here?! So, the deal is that I got a set of 8 piston/rod combs off ebay... The feedback was 99.9% so I figured they were a good choice...

I got the set of 8 piston/rod combs in a bag that was in a box with paper around the bag as filler... Yep... 8 piston/rod combos tossed in a bag with nothing but air to keep them apart... Not one made it to my house in useable condition... What a complete waste of perfectly good parts!! So frustrating!! And the search continues!! All I need are three pistons... I'm sure I can reuse the rods!!



This is the first one I pulled out...



I'm working out the details on my valve spring compressor using the one for my Jag XK8 rebuild....

Cheers for now!!!

So you just paid for handling someone elses garbage???? They just put the pistons in a box and no wrapping etc.? WOW sorry to hear. Did these come from a dismantler? Even they usually package to ship.
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Old 04-02-2016, 12:35 AM
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That sucks. I'd demand your money back.
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Old 04-02-2016, 09:57 AM
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That's just wrong. Had I shipped those, each one would be individually wrapped, if not boxed. I'd send them back and demand a refund.
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You deserve to get return shipping refunded. Email the seller through ebay and if he says anything but yes make a case with ebay. Warn him this is your intention if he does not do an immediate refund for the parts and return shipping. Hell, I would make him send you a prepaid ups label and then have ups come and pick it up at his expense.

I do not tolerate monkey business sellers like this and I have won every single time. Sometimes they even let me keep the junk part for free.
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I agree!! Totally!! I'm completely livid about this transaction!! Mainly for the waste of 8 perfectly good rod/piston combos!! It gets better!! This is what I just got from the seller...... Oh, I did send the same pictures that are on here...

"They should be okay. Do you see any damage on them?

Sorry, I'm in peru until the 10th of april, so service is spotty. If you write me back I'll try to answer when I have service.

Thanks"

So, we will see if this refund happens as rapidly as I paid him...

Stay tuned... I think the outcome will be interesting!!
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I agree!! Totally!! I'm completely livid about this transaction!! Mainly for the waste of 8 perfectly good rod/piston combos!! It gets better!! This is what I just got from the seller...... Oh, I did send the same pictures that are on here...

"They should be okay. Do you see any damage on them?

Sorry, I'm in peru until the 10th of april, so service is spotty. If you write me back I'll try to answer when I have service.

Thanks"

So, we will see if this refund happens as rapidly as I paid him...

Stay tuned... I think the outcome will be interesting!!
make sure to challenge the payment in paypal. That way he can't cash out your payment.
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Good day all!!

The latest and greatest with the used pistons... I'm using ebay return policy... I have to wait for the damaged pistons to arrive back to the seller before I get my refund...

If they have a restocking fee for having a perfect item returned due to buyer error, there should be a replenish fee for having a damaged item returned due to seller error!!!! What are their restocking fees? 15%!?!?

The guy is still insistent on the pistons being okay. Amazing... Oh well...

Cheers for now!!
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That picture of the piston looks like it made love to a valve or something. I would be suspicious of the rods too.
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The seller of these clearly has no experience in engine building/rebuilding. A nick as small as .5mm on the skirt or in a ring land is the difference between usable and scrap.

The rods are likely usable; I always have them shotpeened and the bigends resized. But no way I'd trust alloy pistons rolling around in a box of steel conrods - no question which part is going to win that battle.
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Good day all!!

I got the good news yesterday that the seller is refunding me on the pistons... I have to send them back and wait the six days after they get the eight individually wrapped piston/rod combos that are secured in a shoe box that will be put in a larger box with paper around everything... But, I'm not gonna have to fight him on his error... I used the brown paper they sent around the bag of pistons to wrap each for the return trip. I found this piece of piston in the bottom of the box, then found the piston it came from...



And my wrapping/packaging...



Here is one valve I managed to pull from the DS head off my motor... Don't think this is quite right...



My valve spring compressor is not perfect enough to deal with for 32 valves... Gonna go another direction and have it mounted to the workbench...

More to come...

Cheers all!!!

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