Well I broke down and bought a new center link from Amazon for $52.45 delivered. I figured it might be cheap but what the heck, no big loss if it is junk. Imagine my surprise when I saw the box and it was a Behr product. The real kicker was when I opened the box and surprise, there was not a center link in the box, there was three of them. Guess it is time to contact the shipper and see if he wants two of them back.
Shipping them back will be costly.
The only way will be on there dime. Plus, forgot to mention they only charged me for one.
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Maybe you'll need them as they wear out. That's a LOT cheaper than realoem. See item 9: http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/show...diagId=32_0731
TRW and Lemforder are solid products.
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Maybe you got three because they will wear out so fast. It'll take all three to last as long as one TRW.
I would call or e-mail them and let them know you got three. Even if they don't want them back it'll make you feel better as a person. Besides, you might have gotten someone else's order. It's happened to me. It was my packing slip but someone else's parts in the box.
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Yeah, I agree with the others. Contact them, if you can without it being an onerous process and let them know. If they do out of their way to make it difficult, screw it, their loss, Amazon isn't known for being contact friendly. I had that happen with Grainger one time, they sent me 12 boxes of 12, not just 12. A couple of hundred bucks, we did tons of business with them that was a drop in the bucket. They wanted me to pack it up, and ship it back on my dime. (my employers dime if you want to get technical) I couldn't even use what I ordered and they all went in the dumpster.
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It will cost Amazon more to get them back, re-stock and do all the paperwork than these are worth.
They once sent my wife a $600 item she didn't order. Several requests to claim it went unanswered. After more than a year it was put up for sale on Craigslist at half price which made someone else very happy and bought us a nice night out.
F 'em, they don't care and seemingly have $$ to burn.
Sell them here to someone that needs 'em.
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Agreed: tell them your received one too many, ask them to send you a prepaid shipping label, no response in 30 days, offer them to one and all at a price that makes it good for others!
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as they shipped them to you not ordered by you, youve no legal responsibility at that dollar point, let your conscience be your guide. theres no way they should even consider wanting you to ship them back at your cost, that would be an automatic deal breaker for me.
If it really is from Amazon, they likely don’t care. If it is a third party seller, it will be more impact to their bottom line. I think you should reach out.
The end result, I contacted the seller and they said thank you for the honesty, sent a return label for the other two, and issued a $25 store credit. So I guess $28 for a center link is a deal even if it is a cheap one. But then again, you find a lot of gold in muddy water.
There was a scandal in Germany where Amazon destroys returned items on a large scale:
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute...ouren-100.html (in German).
Returns are supposedly very expensive for amazon.
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