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Trouble with french designer Alice and co.

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PinDIY  Post time 2017-11-13 23:23 |Read mode
I have been trying to order a couple of designs from this french company.  Their website isnt user friendly and you cannot buy their designs online. You have to print out an order form and email it.
They want you to pay either by cheque, paypal or bank transfer.  I dont have a chequebook,  I hate Paypal and so I thought I could pay by bank transfer.  This last option wasnt suggested to me at all. I have lost my patience with Emmanuelle Carre Briand and now I dont want to order from her.

I will try a bounty request instead.

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Old/Solved topic  Post time 2017-12-19 22:15
Post time 2017-11-13 23:36 | Show all posts
Youre right - their website isnt particularly user friendly!  I can understand designers not wanting to sell their designs as PDFs and only wanting to use Paypal - or bank transfer, although I wouldnt be happy using this method and I dont have a cheque book anymore - Paypal at least both the seller and buyer have some kind of protection and its universal practically.  Lots of designs are shared online!!  And this harms the business of smaller business quite a bit.  Its probably a bit ironic to say something like this on a site like this but file sharing has caused a lot of companies to close so its a bit of a Catch 22 situation!  

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Its so easy to create a very nice pdf file these days that I think they are doing themselves out of business by not being user friendly (as experienced by the original poster here!).  Details Reply Post time 2017-11-14 03:18
I understand your point about file sharing, but here I was offering real money and yet I was knocked back!!!! Go figure.  Post time 2017-11-14 00:24
The third option of bank transfer I could do,but she did not offer this at all in her replies to me, and yet IBAN bank transfer is offered on her site - thats what I find hard to understand.  Post time 2017-11-14 00:23
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Post time 2017-11-14 01:58 | Show all posts
How weird. You would think they would try and work with you on the different payment options

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It was a very weird experience. I mentioned IBAN a few times but she completely ignored that, so much for the sisterhood of embroiderers!!!  Post time 2017-11-14 02:34
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Its so easy to create a very nice pdf file these days that I think they are doing themselves out of business by not being user friendly (as experienced by the original poster here!).  

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The notion of commerciality, customer service and enterprise hasnt reached these parts yet. I have lived in france for 12 years now, I am no longer surprised by their attitude!!!  Post time 2017-11-14 03:24
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Post time 2017-11-14 03:28 | Show all posts
In these pays of instant payments and instant downloads, they will lose a lot of trade doing business they way they are

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That doesnt seem to occur to them. Sometimes I think france is stuck in a timewarp.  Post time 2017-11-14 03:36
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Post time 2017-11-19 04:45 | Show all posts
Depending on what kind of bank account you have, foreign transfers are expensive unless you can do a debit card transaction. I had such a big argument and dispute with Paypal Ill never use it again!

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I still cant understand why she did not want to give me the bank details, its all rather odd. It was my choice after all. Ive had problems with paypal for years, their system doesnt work!!!  Post time 2017-11-19 09:10
I live in france and have a french bank so it wasnt really a problem for me. I recently ordered something from Estonia, paid by bank transfer and the fee was negligible.  Post time 2017-11-19 09:07
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Post time 2017-11-21 05:06 | Show all posts
It says you can pay by IBAN and to contact her? If you live in France I dont see a problem.

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... unpleasant about the whole thing. I was very polite and tried not to be a nuisance, so IBAN seemed the best option but she refused to send me the bank details - why????  Post time 2017-11-21 18:38
Thats right, there should be no problem!!! So why did she keep ignoring me when I suggested paying by IBAN - very strange behaviour. In the end I offered to send the money by post - she was very...  Post time 2017-11-21 18:36
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