Beware Bike Inn / Trade Inn - Any problem is fault of customer

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ParisCarbon
Posts: 1962
Joined: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:39 am
Location: Winnipeg Canada

by ParisCarbon

Ive had pretty good luck with them... a few things to note though with them.. just because it says the item is "in stock" doesnt mean they have it.. it means their distributor has it... I had multiple items I wanted to order , shorts, socks, some ekar drivtrain components... they had it all listed in stock so I ordered from their versus paying 2 shipping costs to Canada... 10 days in and the order still hasnt shipped out as they say are still waiting for half my order to arrive to the dispatch center.. their repsonse to questions is very good.. asked them what the hold up was, and they get back within a few hours generally... I realized lastnite I am short on inner tubes, so wanted to order in some on this unshipped order.. according to their site, there should be an option to just add them, but its not letting me, its creating a second order.. funny thing to is, their shipping costs to Canada have gone through the roof on some stuff... Postal service for 8 inner tubes is $22... if I want DHL for 8 tubes, they want something like $160!!! Funny thing is, my Ekar order/shorts etc sent DHL wasn't even half that price.. so I dunno how they are calculatng shipping costs... Im awaiting a response on just adding the tubes to the existing order... unless it crank my shipping costs through the roof...

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constantinyuple
Posts: 10
Joined: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:06 am

by constantinyuple

i am also waiting for a refund of 1000 euro from bikeinn since march.
they did not ship my order and once i started a paypal refund process quickly shipped it 6 weeks later (!) by what time i no longer needed the product. product was never accpeted by me, was returned to bikeinn and now ever since its back in their facility they ignore me. case is still being processed with paypal.

its the second time i have a terrible experience with them. STAY AWAY FROM THEM!!!!
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maurice1
Posts: 171
Joined: Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:51 pm
Location: Jura

by maurice1

Another awful experience for me. Not only is shipping dogshit, but this is the 2nd time I've had to return something from them.
Bike computer with an app (required to even BOOT, cannot do anything without the app) that doesn't work on android. To me this sounds like a warranty issue as I can't really use the device I paid for. It took 5 messages for them to finally accept to send me a shipping label to return it. I've sent it a month ago and they still decided to send it to china for the manufacturer to determine whether my unit was faulty (magene)
I've told them at least 7 times that there was nothing wrong with the hardware. The moron doesn't even forward it. How dense are these people? 2nd order, 2nd return, 2nd awful customer support. Still haven't heard from them after a month.

Maddie
Posts: 1590
Joined: Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:44 am

by Maddie

maurice1 wrote:
Sun Sep 08, 2024 2:02 pm
I've told them at least 7 times that there was nothing wrong with the hardware. The moron doesn't even forward it. How dense are these people? 2nd order, 2nd return, 2nd awful customer support. Still haven't heard from them after a month.
They are just following their warranty process, whether you like it or not. What I don't get: You already had a bad experience with them, knew about their issues with customer service and yet you ordered there again?

maurice1
Posts: 171
Joined: Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:51 pm
Location: Jura

by maurice1

Maddie wrote:
Sun Sep 08, 2024 4:37 pm
maurice1 wrote:
Sun Sep 08, 2024 2:02 pm
I've told them at least 7 times that there was nothing wrong with the hardware. The moron doesn't even forward it. How dense are these people? 2nd order, 2nd return, 2nd awful customer support. Still haven't heard from them after a month.
They are just following their warranty process, whether you like it or not. What I don't get: You already had a bad experience with them, knew about their issues with customer service and yet you ordered there again?
I would understand if I hadn't stated 10 times that the hardware was perfectly fine. Now they're just wasting magene's time by sending them a normal unit without telling them my issue was software. They'll run a bunch of tests with their development test app and be confused as to what didn't work for me

My first experience was just one item missing and poor packaging (plus expensive shipping). Nothing I thought would warrant never giving them a second chance

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