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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8188247, member: 110350&quot;]For those who have pointed out that I should simply have read the dealer&#039;s terms of sale and asked for a refund without going into the reasons, mea culpa.&nbsp; Another thing I did wrong! All I can say is to repeat that I&#039;ve been distracted lately.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, the dealer has initiated the processing of the refund, so I should see a credit to my American Express account within the next few days -- hopefully in an amount close, if not equal, to the charge, given the currency exchange issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the dealer&#039;s explanation:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;I will return you don’t worry . I never write than it is the exemple of nac or leu but i write than is the same type maybe when youd id make the traduction from french to english it was wrong</p><p><br /></p><p>when you buy in France by internet you have 14 days for cxancel your order.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The last statement is interesting -- 14 days rather than the 8 days mentioned in the terms of sale. I wonder if that&#039;s a legal requirement.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my response, which I couldn&#039;t resist:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Thank you very much for the refund. Obviously there was a misunderstanding, based on the Google translation into English. In the future, perhaps you could use a more specific word to indicate &#039;the same type,&#039; rather than &#039;the same example,&#039; which is how your statement was translated. I showed your description to a number of native French speakers, all of whom agreed that the way you phrased it was ambiguous, and that my confusion was understandable.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My only remaining decision is whether I should bother to respond with an explanation to the following email I received today from MA-Shops itself:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Your MA-Shops order was cancelled by the seller (Cheilan).</p><p><br /></p><p>As owners of the MA-Shops online marketplace, we value your feedback.</p><p>Kindly reply to let us know&nbsp; whether you were satisfied with MA-Shops and the seller.</p><p>If you encountered any problems that led to the cancellation, please explain in a reply email</p><p>Thank you for your assistance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><br /></p><p>MA-Shops Customer Service&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all your advice, even if it proved in the end to be much ado about not very much.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see that the current voting in the poll is 15 for the &quot;I would want the coin anyway&quot; option, to 12 for &quot;I would want a refund.&quot; The coin is now available for purchase again to all 15 of you if you want it!</p><p><br /></p><p>And now I have to decide what to do with all that money I just saved. I&#039;m feeling kind of turned off to solidi for the moment, as unfair as that may sound. So something else, perhaps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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