Hello, This morning while looking my e-mail account noticed one e-mail from Lik-Sang. At first I thought that it was a joke or some kind of spam but no, is true, sadly true. The sender is service(at)lik-sang.com and the number of the order they're talking about is the same that I did the year 2002. Subject: We pay $50 for your Dreamcast Broadband Adapter [PGT.0.63666] "Hi <my name and last name here>, Do you still have the [Dreamcast Broadband Adapter] you bought from us a looong time ago? We'd like to buy it back for US$ 50 (PayPal, Money Bookers or Store Credit). Yes, that's right, we 'd like to give you $50 for it! Please note that we can only buy adapters that actually work. If you still have the packing of it, please also include it when sending the DC Broadband Adapter back to us. Please send your adapter to the following address. It's usually OK to use Airmail as it is inexpensive and can be registered so that the parcel is not likely to be lost on the way. Pacific Game Technology (Holding) Limited ATTN: Johnson Cheng, DC-BBA 63666 Unit 17B, 17/F, Broadway Centre 93 Kwai Fuk Road, Kwai Chung New Territories, Hong Kong Please make sure that you have the Order No (63666) clearly visible outide of the parcel. Put a small note inside the parcel with the Order No. again, and write down how you'd like to get paid (PayPal, Money Bookers or Store Credit). To refresh your memory, here is your original order (63666) that you placed a long time ago: 1 x Dreamcast Broadband Adapter (Sega) US$ 119.00 1 x Shipping and Handling (EMS) US$ 28.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Total: US$ 147.00 ===================================================================== We are sending you this email because many DC programmers out there can't get a DC Broadband Adapter, Sega discontinued the item :/ Best regards Your Lik-Sang.com Team ---------------------------- Lik-Sang.com - Alternative Gaming Community If you want to get in contact with Lik-Sang.com, you can use our online Customer Support Center for just any request you might have: <http://www.lik-sang.com/contact.php> Enquiries are usually replied to within 24 hours, except on weekends. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible service. Your input is vital to our success. Please help us serve you and others better by taking just a few minutes to answer a few questions. We thank you for responding. <http://www.lik-sang.com/survey.php?surveyname=pgt1>" I have sent them an answer. Lik-Sang mus think his customers are idiots, that I'm idiot. They are offering to me $50 for a BBA that it cost to me $119 plus $28 of shipping costs with EMS. They have even remembered to me the price I paid for this item in 2002, thank you. This is the way to treat potential customers? They say too "We are sending you this email because many DC programmers out there can't get a DC Broadband Adapter, Sega discontinued the item :/" The BBA is discontinued since a lot of time ago, is now that an unknown fever has begun and everybody wants to program for DC and needs a BBA?. Not to mention the shameful presumption and tone of the e-mail, something like "your BBA can be in better hands, sell it to us". I have explained in my reply that my BBA is in perfect condition, and I use it frequently. I care very well of things. What a pathetic excuse, they are Lik-Sang, probably the best known online videogame shop and I suppose they can have access very easily to the japanese market. Why don't they go and search for BBAs in Japan or eBay, I don't need cheap arguments to try to buy from me for $50 an item that cost me a lot more so that they can soon resell it by probably a lot more (speculation). By the way are they going to ask all people interested in buying a BBA from them if they are programmers or something? Until now I had a very good feedback and consideration of Lik-Sang as a good and reliable shop. Now I can affirm that I'll never buy from them again in the future. Probably other people that have purchased BBA from them have received it too.
What a F*cking cheek. I wonder how many people will fall for that email. You can guarantee that as soon as they get some of them back they will resell them with 3 figureprice tags. I used to think they were ok but after reading that my opinion has changed. :snipe:
sure, that's a pretty cheap thing to pull off - however, I'd just ignore it instead of jumping ship with them altogether as they *do* have quite a bunch of reasonably priced stuff, I wouldnt shoot myself in the foot
Well... all aside.... (I'll still buy from them... but) if I was going to sell my BBA anyhow and was after it for the money I would sell it on eBay any day before letting some company buy it back for half the price. However.. I've never had a BBA and at those crazy prices I probably never will.
Pfft. What a shite thing to do. Tryin to take advantage of people who aren't aware of it's value. Never bought from Lik-San, and never will now.
Well, it's tough to look down on them too much since a business is in business to make money, but that message is definately one point againt them. I don't think i would have been happy to get that email.
