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mutherhubbud
New Member

3 Posts
10/06
Posted - Oct 20 2006 : 10:47PM
This company has started to annoy me by blocking my email address. So I will repost what I have already written in the International Shopping guide thread in case no one reads it as it's right on the end.


"Hi Guys & Gals,
Thought I'd pass on some comments regarding some shady practices on www.excaliburfilms.com and its sister www.bid4dvds.com
Here's a copy of the reply I sent to their Customer Service dept. after they took days to respond to my query. It was regarding why my CC statement was showing a discrepancy of $35 to the total amount on the original order I submitted (around $140).

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I have to say I'm a little annoyed in the ambiguity in the pricing of your Shipping and Global Insurance.
I elaborate:

1.Shipping to UK – see: International Rates
On your website you state a package of 4 titles costs $6.50 USD plus $1.60 per DVD which I interpret as $6.50 for the first 4 titles and an additional $1.60 for each title afterwards.
And NOT $6.50 (which you should state is a handling fee) plus $1.60 for EACH disc.
On the ORDER FORM I submitted to you there is only a total charge of $6.50 for the shipping of 4 titles – I have just checked this fact by compiling an order on your website.

2.Global Insurance – see: Insurance
$2.00 per item is what I would interpret as each title and not each disc in a title.
Again checking my Dummy order I find the ORDER FORM only states a total Insurance charge of $8.00 for 4 items (which included a multiple disc title pack).

3.Invoice Total – the Total shown on the ORDER FORM the customer submits is not what the customer pays.
Can you inform them before the order is shipped of the actual amount due? Your confirmation emails are also pretty vague at specifying this total amount.
Technically this is fraud as you are claiming for more money than what is originally stated on the ORDER FORM submitted by the customer.

Whilst your headline prices at www.excaliburfilms.com and www.bid4dvds.com look great, stinging the customer with all these additional charges is not really fair.
I hope you take these comments on board and perhaps use them to develop your service by offering more clarity for customers.
I wish you well in your enterprise but I regretfully will be terminating any future business dealings. I feel there are plenty of other traders out there offering a far better service.
These comments will also be posted on the AdultDVDTalk forum.
Regards,
Mike

As I have no feasible way of getting this money back I would instead use my experience to make you all wary.
I have used them prior to this but the orders had been smaller so there was no need for the insurance then and most titles were single discs.
As I mentioned, their prices appeared good but the delivery was slow as they only used USPS regular Airmail and would only send the DVDs in the original packs. I had one small order go AWOL because of this - sorry no insurance that time either!!
Hope that helps.
Mike"

Gabriel Nine
Senior Member

Firecracker
1273 Posts
8/01
Posted - Oct 21 2006 : 9:44AM
mutherhubbud - your good intentions in sharing your problems with readers are appreciated but it's actually counter-productive to post the same info in two threads, as you can end up with two separate discussions on the same subject.

Please follow up this topic in this thread only. Thanks.

Edited by - Gabriel Nine on 10/21/2006 9:47:17 AM

scipio
Senior Member

1901 Posts
2/00
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 4:49AM
Talk to your credit card company. Tell them you were overcharged and require the forms for them to perform a chargeback to the retailer.

Contact the retailer, and tell them they can refund you the amount that was charged incorrectly, or your CC company will get the refund for you.

They refund the difference, or your CC company takes it. Your CC company will also charge them a significant fee. This is the thing that really motivates semi-dodgy companies to not screw people around any further.

Yes, I've done this myself (not with this company). They refunded me the money after I emailed them informing them I had the forms and would be taking them into the bank in the morning. Suddenly they replied to my email overnight instead of with a 2-3 week turnaround.


arc
Member

34 Posts
5/06
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 4:32AM
I have also had lots of problems with ordering from Excalibur.
On no less than three occasions, the orders I placed arrived WITHOUT the cover artwork and they took 4-5 weeks to reach me in Australia.
I've asked them repeatedly to send me the missing artwork and they replied saying that they would send it with my next order (IF available). Problem is, I'm not willing to do business with them any more, so I guess I will not be getting my missing artwork ever.
They have also twice ignored my instructions to 'Hold & Ship Complete' despite my specific requests to do so.
All in all, I am very disappointed with their poor customer service and lack of professionalism.
I also order from AdultCDMovies, AdultDVDToday and AdultDVDEmpire and I have had nothing but good, prompt and professional service from them.
Arc.
ben3
Member

39 Posts
2/06
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 6:37AM
Hi Arc,
If the missing artwork is for old movies Excalibur bought the right to press on DVD, then it is normal. There is no cover going with them.
 
arc
Member

34 Posts
5/06
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 10:15AM
Hi ben3,
No, that was not the case. They were current titles from Private, New Sensations and others. It was just sheer sloppiness and lack of care.
They apologized but still refused to ship the artwork to me until I submitted another order with them (I wrote twice asking them to). And there was no guarantee that the artwork would be shipped to me anyway.
ben3
Member

39 Posts
2/06
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 12:42PM
Too bad, looks like they don't want to pay for their mistake Still, one lost customer is probably worse than a few bucks
arc
Member

34 Posts
5/06
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 10:02PM
^ I would imagine that it would have cost Excalibur less than $1.00 to just slip that missing artwork into an envelope and mail it to me, no muss no fuss.
... considering the fact that I had already paid through the nose for the postage and handling and that artwork is legally mine because I paid for it.
That is just bad business practice.
Mojo
Deactivated User

1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - Nov 3 2007 : 6:21AM
Jaded.com did the same to me. They sent the disk and not the cover. ???
HarryWild
Member

Make me believe
622 Posts
2/05
Posted - Dec 2 2007 : 3:27AM
Excalibur did some shorting of my trading in of DVDs some years ago. I sent in 16 DVDs with a value of of around $220 and to get 12 new DVDs in the trade. They only sent me 5 of the DVDs and said that the rest were on backorder! Never got the rest of them! Over time they said that they could not find the backorder - order! So I never did business with them again!
That Virginia Beaver or what every her name is I could not get to speak to; the head person.
arc
Member

34 Posts
5/06
Posted - Jan 13 2008 : 9:35AM
I'm happy to report that Excalibur have fixed my issue by sending out the missing artwork with a subsequent order.
They really seem to have cleaned up their act (as they promised to do).
I'm more than happy to keep on sending business their way after this!
(But I might add that I did not get the artwork sleeves for titles that had since been discontinued, eg older Private titles).
Edited by - arc on 1/13/2008 9:48:58 AM



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