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Just received what was sold to me as an 'as new' 70cm Elinchrom silver beauty dish, complete with deflector set, by a seller with 100% feedback. It was a good price, but not so good that you'd think 'scam' immediately. He's also a private individual, not a big company.
Firstly he put it in a big cardboard box with one sheet of thin bubble wrap round it - needless to say, it's all deformed and bent at the edges. Why can't people realise you need to make packaging bomb-proof if fragile items are going to survive courier abuse! I always mummify stuff in heaps of bubble wrap, it's not like it costs the earth...
Secondly, the dish has scratches all over the inside - hardly 'as new', and a dealbreaker in itself for me for a modifier like this!
Thirdly, no deflectors - just the dish. Making it pretty useless.
Finally... it doesn't even appear to be genuine elinchrom! The speed ring is bolted on, not moulded like I have seen in pictures. The whole unit looks more like a 3rd party dish.
Sorry to vent, but I am seething right now! Have sent the guy as politely worded a request as I could muster for a full refund, including him paying the cost of shipping the darn thing back to him - am really hoping he isn't going to be difficult about this as I think I may well flip if he does! :bang:
Firstly he put it in a big cardboard box with one sheet of thin bubble wrap round it - needless to say, it's all deformed and bent at the edges. Why can't people realise you need to make packaging bomb-proof if fragile items are going to survive courier abuse! I always mummify stuff in heaps of bubble wrap, it's not like it costs the earth...
Secondly, the dish has scratches all over the inside - hardly 'as new', and a dealbreaker in itself for me for a modifier like this!
Thirdly, no deflectors - just the dish. Making it pretty useless.
Finally... it doesn't even appear to be genuine elinchrom! The speed ring is bolted on, not moulded like I have seen in pictures. The whole unit looks more like a 3rd party dish.
Sorry to vent, but I am seething right now! Have sent the guy as politely worded a request as I could muster for a full refund, including him paying the cost of shipping the darn thing back to him - am really hoping he isn't going to be difficult about this as I think I may well flip if he does! :bang: