Butthead
Well-known member
So here's the deal:
LandBigFish.com was selling discontinued 200G6 Curados for $80 on Black Friday. I ordered one, but when I received it the following week, there was a brand new Citica, Citica paper work, and spare Citica top hats in the box. I was a little shocked at this but I stayed calm and called LBF. They said no problem, just send it back.
So I sent it back and got a call from them when they received it. They said the one I sent back was definitely used and the gears were completely binding. Now I KNOW this was not true of the one I sent back to them. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the reel before I shipped them back, which I HIGHLY regret now. They also went on to say that the error could not have occurred by Shimano because they ship directly to their vendors. I called Shimano and got confirmation that they DO ship directly to their vendors and that the reels are made in batches and thus Citicas and Curados are not manufactured at the same time. However they said that they had not shipped out any G Curados since June 2014. This is interesting because LBF.com did not have the G series listed on their site in June 2014:
https://web.archive.org/web/2014063...wall=yes&ID=29&show=image&sort=name&sort2=asc
If they were still expecting shipments, why wouldn't they have it listed as backorder on the site? So where did this inventory really come from?
Thankfully, they are giving me all my money back, but I'm still out a great deal on a Curado, and now they have a "supposedly" defunct Citica in a Curado box.
It was suggested to me that possibly someone in Shipping & Receiving may be playing the switch game. They packed my order, swapped the Curado out for a Citica, saw my order come back and swapped my new Citica for a beat up one. I look like the thief and they get a brand new Curado for the employee price of a Citica and a replacement Citica for their old one.
So what are everyone's thoughts about this?
LandBigFish.com was selling discontinued 200G6 Curados for $80 on Black Friday. I ordered one, but when I received it the following week, there was a brand new Citica, Citica paper work, and spare Citica top hats in the box. I was a little shocked at this but I stayed calm and called LBF. They said no problem, just send it back.
So I sent it back and got a call from them when they received it. They said the one I sent back was definitely used and the gears were completely binding. Now I KNOW this was not true of the one I sent back to them. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the reel before I shipped them back, which I HIGHLY regret now. They also went on to say that the error could not have occurred by Shimano because they ship directly to their vendors. I called Shimano and got confirmation that they DO ship directly to their vendors and that the reels are made in batches and thus Citicas and Curados are not manufactured at the same time. However they said that they had not shipped out any G Curados since June 2014. This is interesting because LBF.com did not have the G series listed on their site in June 2014:
https://web.archive.org/web/2014063...wall=yes&ID=29&show=image&sort=name&sort2=asc
If they were still expecting shipments, why wouldn't they have it listed as backorder on the site? So where did this inventory really come from?
Thankfully, they are giving me all my money back, but I'm still out a great deal on a Curado, and now they have a "supposedly" defunct Citica in a Curado box.
It was suggested to me that possibly someone in Shipping & Receiving may be playing the switch game. They packed my order, swapped the Curado out for a Citica, saw my order come back and swapped my new Citica for a beat up one. I look like the thief and they get a brand new Curado for the employee price of a Citica and a replacement Citica for their old one.
So what are everyone's thoughts about this?