I got scammed by Temu!

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Journeyman

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#3120615 26-Aug-2023 16:14

I'm amazed you received your blazer in the same size your ordered it as. I'm ordered an XL shirt once from Aliexpress and received a tiny thing with an XL label on it. I've heard many similar horror stories. Maybe Chinese manufacturers are realigning sizing labels to Western body types?

neb

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#3120638 26-Aug-2023 17:50

Journeyman:
I'm amazed you received your blazer in the same size your ordered it as. I'm ordered an XL shirt once from Aliexpress and received a tiny thing with an XL label on it. I've heard many similar horror stories. Maybe Chinese manufacturers are realigning sizing labels to Western body types?

Chinese sizes are nothing like Western sizes, if you are buying clothes always, always buy by the measurements not by any sizing letters.

Unless you've got XL children that you can pass it on to.

MikeAqua

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#3121047 28-Aug-2023 09:15

johno1234: Haha!

But yeah, compass compensation in steel ships is a dark art.

It's reasonably simple, once you know how. However, there are only seven people in NZ that are certified to adjust a compass on a commercial vessel.

A decent nautical compass has a couple of little magnets that can be moved around its circumference. You steer the vessel along a line with known magnetic heading (e.g. between two navigational markers) noting the deviation, then adjust the magnets to offset it.

You then repeat the process on several different headings. Then the residual deviation across a range of headings, enables a deviation curve to be recorded on the compass card. This has to be less than 5% on a commercial vessel.

Mike

Qazzy03

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#3136408 29-Sep-2023 10:56

wellygary:

Qazzy03: I ordered 2 shoes from https://www.brooksshoesnzoutlet.com/

What came in the post was a Gucci baseball cap.

After much emailing back and forward, they say they are out of shoes.... Strange for an entire outlet store for only shoes. They offered me to keep the cap and offering me a 30% refund, then 40% and latest is 50%. After a lot of emails and then finally doing a google search, pretty sure it is a scam. Rang Kiwibank to start a charge back case via Visa. Never done one before, Kiwibank will do a call back, machine says 1 working day, so guess that will sometime next week.

Our office network forbids me seeing that address claiming its on anti-phishing list somewhere ... good luck with the charge back

Bit of a revive on an old thread but thought I might add a bit of an outcome. Kiwibank approved the charge back under IP/identity theft and have given the company 30 days to dispute with Visa.

The company I purchased with has said they will be returning 50% but nothing yet.

If they do I will let Kiwibank know as t hey have already done a 100% charge back

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