Oh, and once again, another eBay seller is pissing me off. Last year I gave away my Dri-Rider jacket and pants as somehow they'd shrunk out in the garage. My mate Dave had bought a Yama-Harley (actually a Kawasaki poofter Harley ripoff thing, but I did the test ride for it, and it went OK) and he needed a waterproof jacket and dacks for riding in the rain, so big-hearted me gave them to him.
Well fast-forward to now and I need some new wet weather duds. On eBay I found a new Dri-rider jacket for 150 bucks, and new dacks from another seller for 100 bucks, and did the "buy it now" thing. A couple of days later, and a big Aussie Post bag arrives at my door from the company I bought the pants from, so I open it up, and there's a fcuking jacket (not even my size) in it? WTF? I email 'em and the owner apologises and asks if I wouldn't mind dropping the jacket back? Well he'd charged me 20 fcuking bucks to post it from two suburbs over, the krunt, so I said, "No dice", and suggested that he sort it out.
Today, "Ahpoo" turns up with not one pair of dacks, but two? "That's odd", methinks, then I notice that both pairs are different sizes, but each a couple of sizes too small. I say to "Ahpoo", "mate, these are too small". "Oh no sir," he says, these are the same exact size as the pants you ordered! It was pointless arguing logic with this dopey curry munching priick, so I took the largest pair and sent him on his way. I've sent another email to his boss though, so I'm waiting for a reply.
The jacket turned up today, and even though it was marked the size that I'd ordered, it was way too small, so as I was going over to Jeff's shop nearby, I dropped into Ken Colvin's to return, or exchange, the jacket. Ken's missus was great, she took me upstairs to their store room, found me a jacket 2 sizes larger, and apologised profusely, it seems that Dri-rider's sizing is on the conservative side. Their customer service is fcuking excellent, it's a pity that the other mob couldn't take a leaf out of their book.
You see, I really hate shopping, so I rely on internet sellers, and it pisses me off that some of these people can't get their schidt together............