On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 03:13:51 -0700 (PDT), robobass
wrote:


What do the instructions say? What does the vendor say? They
usually have to check with a tech and get back to you. If it doesn't
work properly, they'll usually refund your money ...

Larry, you seem to have a different customer service experience than me with Chinese Ebay sellers. There are never any instructions,

g Yeah, instruction sheets do seem to be half a paragraph long, IF
you can weasel one out of them. But the better ones aren't even
written in Chinglish!


and when you write them they write back with some nonsense which is completely irrelevant to your question.

BTDT, and then I started to pay attention to the vendor name.
FashionBoutik2311 likely won't have a tech handy for electronics.
Also, I usually ask questions to half a dozen vendors at a time, then
compare any replies. Write it up, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V six times, and send
'er on. If the average price is $10, look for the vendor selling it
for $27 and ask him. He'll find the answer for you.


Sometimes they give a refund. Sometimes they even try to bargain when you get
something totally defective. "Is it OK to refund half? After all, we did pay the shipping..."

Yeah, I've had those, too. I ordered a nice black backpack and got a
pink and green camo. First he offered $6 back, then $9, then $16, but
I finally asked him to either send the black one or refund the entire
amount. I'd already wasted 5 weeks. He caved. All that exchange
added up to about ten minutes of my time.


Anyway, for ten bucks it's not worth getting into it with them. In this case I would say that
the unit does work, but just not as I had hoped. I would have to run my compressor continuously
to supply the needed air, and I would fill my shop with fog in a short time.

I consider a few minutes worth of email exchange a fair exchange for a
$10 (r $36) refund. YMMV. Obviously, the thing was built for a much
larger setup than you have. Hey, you have a machine shop and an
example of a too-large mister. Care to make one yourself, on a
smaller scale? I think all of these would fill the shop with fog
pretty quickly, though, and I'd want an air source and outlet fan for
when I was using it, I think. It's messy enough to make a fella want
to hover over it with a hand mister, I tell ya.

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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
-- Sir Winston Churchill