An accomplice? - Successful Fight for refund with PayPal: Ordered "Pride" Brand - Unbranded product delivered
Please note: This review is written for completeness and verbatim concerning my purchase was from prime-moblityscooters.co.uk website. Yet transactions were undertaken from Mobility and Care (website: mobilityandcare.co.uk).
I own a Pride Mobility Scooter and required a battery charger. Purchased a "Pride brand 5 Amp Mobility Scooter Charger, Part Number: LS24/5E" from Prime-Mobiltyscooters. Received a badly packaged, unbranded electronic device with Part Number: FY2405000 without any supporting documentation or origin of manufacture. Plus there was no evidence of brand name "Pride".
I was suspicious because of what I received so I Entered "FY2405000" without the quotation marks in to Google search engine I found three devices with this part number. Two of which are 24V 5A universal power supplies and the third a charger for li-ion battery pack. I invited Prime-Mobilityscooters to provide more information about the charger. The first response was "Thank you for your email, what we have supplied to you as a 5 amp charger, if you note in our terms and conditions at the bottom it states pictures are of illustration purposes only (Link to terms), you are quite welcome to return the goods to us, however you will only receive a refund for the product and not for any charges you should incur in returning it to us. My reply to this was extensive because my point was missed and to state I had not referred to an image. In the meantime this company removed the part number from their website. I anticipated that evidence could be removed so I did a full capture of their website for proof, whereby I discovered they are linked to the website mobilityandcare.co.uk. What is even more alarming is that at this website you'll see a charger with the brand name "MK Batteries" sporting the same Part Number I purchased from here prime-mobilityscooters.co.uk. I remind you that the part number has since been removed, however, as I mentioned before I captured the page I purchased the charger from. Examine the two pages yourselves and you'll note the specifications are very much alike. Examine the prices and draw your own conclusions.
The battery type for a Pride Mobility Scooter is a "Sealed the GEL and Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) Lead Acid battery". The advice for buying a battery charger is to purchase "the correct charger for the intended battery chemistry". "A lead acid battery charger should switch to a float charge when fully saturated" and a "Li-ion battery has to switch to a trickle charge". I remind you that I could only find a charger with the part number FY2405000 for li-ion batteries that do not provide a "float charge".
I tried to deal with this matter myself directly with the seller, without any success. I then contacted PayPal because I used their services to purchase the charger. PayPal supported my claim and I received a full refund from the seller for my purchase and in addition the cost I incurred returning the item in a very short spate of time.
I purchased the charger on 17th December 2017 Prime-Mobilityscooters.co.uk website and I was reimbursed by on 19th March 2018. Since then I have realised my transaction was with Mobility and Care Limited all along. Hence, I also submit a review to trustpilot for this company name too.
This company also failed to provide me with the link on their website for Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) which has been a legal requirement since February 2016. Visit this link odrcontactpoint.uk
Carl Mohr (8th May 2018)
8. toukokuuta 2018
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