Think I've been ripped off!! Thoughts please?

[scotttait]

Hi, a few months ago, yes a few months ago I joined this sight and was looking for a yellow rear bumper and 4 shocks for a mg zs 180 mk1. Almost immediately I was contacted by a member saying they had a rear bumper and the shocks with springs delivered for £160. I thought £160 seems a bargain so I paid through PayPal but how wrong was I?!!

It took a couple of weeks my 3 weeks for the shocks to arrived, when I got round to changing the shocks I noticed the fronts were different, different part numbers and different springs, after talking to the member I thought the might be different amount of coils but same poundage etc, and I thought I was changing both front it would be fine, (the rear had same part number and looked the same). However after having fitting them the ride height looked slightly higher, so I took it a run felt ok but not perfect. Today however I've found out that the part number matches that of a 1.8 shock.

When you that was going on I still hadn't recieved my number, never once did the seller contact Me, I always had to ask what was happening with it, I was fobbed off with excuse after excuse, all of which seemed reasonable but still annoying that I had to ask, however the bumper finally did arrive after 3 months yes people you read it right, 3 MONTHS. And low and behold the bumper had more hits then the Beatles!! I contacted the member and he said it was perfect when it left must of got damaged in transit, he said he'd claim through the courier and have another one painted and sent, howeve after 2 weeks I have to mail him for an update, he said it will be here this week but I doubt it .

I'm not even going to mail him about shocks as I can't see me getting nowt back, looks like a trip to trading standards , because of his excuses I couldn't even claim through PayPal as it took 3 months to get to me!!

Any thought advise / help would be nice

Thanks scott