Well the weirdness scale just gained a couple of kilo's !
I sent a message to ShunBin Corporate in Shenzen with some of the information & details. Haven't heard back from William Chen but time zones & such could be at play there. BUT I got this email as a response I sent to the vendor via amazon. It's a BEAUTY !
After they offered the $150 USD (Wednesday @ 10:35) I replied to them with the following:
@ 14:00 hours on the 11th as well, I sent them this below:
We are talking Canadian Dollars here: $3999 ÷ 400AH = $10 per AH X 40AHRS = $400 CAD /$302 USD. That would cover the new BMS and related equipment. But does not address the downtime and issues resulting from this “adventure”.
Considering my options, I “hate” to see people get ripped off because of Frauds or False Advertising and then covering that with poor “stories”. THAT is as bad as listening to an American Politician, no truth to be found anywhere on any subject at any time.
After further reflection and having sent a message to ShunBin corporate I followed up with the Amazon Vendor @ 15:15 hrs on the 11th to their $150 usd offer for silence.:
Interesting MATH & See how that works with an Honest Review. I'll also be in contact with Shunbin directly, advising them what you are doing to their name & I imagine they will not appreciate it very much. You are effectively harming the Made in China brand which is something your government really does not appreciate.
ShunBin Amazon reply Friday the 13th 22:09 hrs:
Hello, I agree to refund you 302usd, can you delete the forum post and comment now? I can give you a refund now,Thank you
SO THERE WE HAVE IT... more or less... They obviously used a proper calculator and figured it out. The time delay is simple enough because the time differences, so that's no issue BUT something happened along the way.... A Peculiar Happening TOO !
Coincidence ? Maybe. Since their response on Wednesday, email got weird.... My email would not send messages (got stuck in outgoing) so I had to manually push it from gmail web "drafts" itself. The text in the emails all got split with spaces between every character. (I fixed the responses for readability above), their response came in with very odd formatting & characters and had to also be cleaned up, but it's through the Amazon mail engine. So now to CClean & Purge everything out and cleanup whatever got planted. BUT, been surfing many foreign sites too so.... can never be too safe eh.
On the REFUND.... The amount is now correct BUT they still want me to remove the Review and NOW the forum post too (sorry forum post won't ever be deleted unless Will decides it should for some reason), dunno if the software allows it otherwise anyways, many don't after replies have been posted. Well I don't think so ! Sure I need he money to cover the extra unexpected costs of this debacle BUT to facilitate them to continue to defraud folks just rubs me WRONG in the worst of ways... I guess I am going to eat that much needed refund because, I cannot with any conscience let people get screwed up the wazoo !
WHAT DO YOU GOOD FOLKS THINK ?
A) Should I take the money (bribe for silence?) and do as they ask & remove the reviews ?
B) Eat the $302 usd which causes me $ stress and leave everything as is / where is ?
C) See if an answer from ShunBin Corporate comes with anything of value (have my doubts) ?
D) open to ideas / suggestions.
I prefer to help people & like doing so whenever possible but I also can't afford to take $ hits but I will if it has to... conundrum... I do know that this thread has been seen by MANY and it pops up in google, duckduck and likely others as well. There is also links to this thread in other sites as well ! some put by me and by others too !
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#2 and some pondering.