The Battle of the Buddhists

The tattoo saga continues..............so I basically made an order for a Sak Yant tattoo for protection as designed by a genuine buddhist monk  (yeeeeessss i know....I am a mug......) the company who organises this is based in the Netherlands....(of course where else would they be....)  Here is their site http://www.thaitattoo.nl/indexeuropa.htm. Now in my ignorance and sheer desperation to be protected I didn't notice the lack of contact details and general assurance regarding the trustworthiness of the company providing this very buddhist compassionate and protective tattoo, being interested in buddhist philosophy myself I went with the whole buddhisty trust thing which to me is like an unwritten contract.....silly me.

Having parted with my money....I waited .......and waited.......finally I email to find out what has happened to my design, an email came with tracking information, with a despatch company that has no contact details....hmmmm....when I saw that the design had supposedly been delivered on the tracking info, I contacted the company by email to explain that it hadn't been. I was met with an onslaught of very grumpy abuse accusing me of trying to con them out of a design !! I actually was aghast, particularly as the whole ethos of this is buddhist and yet the company was showing no buddhist philosophy in their dealings whatsoever.........

There was nothing else for it, I had to play the cancer card and hope that they would see the error of their ways. I also raised a dispute with paypal as fortunately I paid through them. 

A very apologetic email came through and offer of a refund and free protective yant.....if I cancel the dispute on paypal as apparently the company can't refund me unless I cancel the dispute........eeerrrr no, this is not correct and on investigation paypal suggest you wait until the refund has gone into your account before cancelling any disputes. There should be no problems refunding on an open dispute. 

I am sad about this, I can be accused of rose tinted specs I guess, but it is still very disappointing when you come across businesses that thrive on peoples hope and rely on that to make a buck. i can only hope that Karma reimburses them. So I sent them loving balls of light and an email, and just hope that if my Yant does arrive it doesn't include some hideous curse!!

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