Review of Battle-Merchant Wacken GmbH & Co. KG


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Payment prices and actutal prices do not match

THIS IS AN UPDATE MADE 15/07/2014

Well, I been shopping there in the past, and now suddenly the prices they list at the price I have to pay isn't the same anymore.
The thing is; it is not an real option to pay with VISA card, it just do not work (we tried from firefox,chrome and explora - and on three different pcs on different locations), so the only real option is PAYPAL, but...

the prices is now 100dkr (appox. 10 pund sterling) more expensive on the paypal site than what battlemerchant listed.

Sounds like a scam to me - we have told battlemerchant about this for like 14 days ago, but all they are willing to do it having me call them ´(they are based in Germany and I am in Denmark) so they can get my VISA card details over the phone... well I am not that stupid.
We can also see that they added this disclaimer within the last week
"Attention: PayPal exchange rates may vary!"
STAY AWAY from this - once super - site

September 30, 2009
Unprompted review

Reply from Battle-Merchant Wacken GmbH & Co. KG

Dear Björn!
Sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with us anymore.
But please let me say something to that.
Visa:
will be taken by a paymentcompany called Secupay. They will check and let it go thru or not.
If you have given a different deliveryaddress they may not trust.
By any reason your Card/address/country/ordervalue/anything - combination has failed their rules. Thats why you can try it with different browsers and locations.

Creditcarddetails on the phone:
What do you mean with: "well I am not that stupid."?
Do you think, we will take your details, take all you money and go to Bahamas?
Björn, we are dealing since the last 5 years! Why do you think that we will cheat you now? As we have not at any time!
We had more than 50.000 customers in last 12 years and have not cheaten a single one!!!
We love what we do and we want to do it the next 30 years at least.
If we cheat somebody, we have to close tomorrow.

Paypal:
We are showing the offical "European Central Bank" exchangerates as we have to do on our website!
Paypal is using its own exchangesrates, as they want to earn on it.
I dont know them and we are not able bring them in the shop.
... and we are not allowed to do that!!!
What shall a prepayment customer or Visa customer say about exchangerates which comes from Paypal? They will be definitely wrong compared to the official ones.
The disclaimer has been brougnt to the site years ago, not in between!
We say very clear in the checkout, that Paypalrates can vary.
What else can we do?

No other paymentoption:
You can just use the normal banktransfer. Within the EU all transfers shall be completed within one workingday. Ok, sometimes it will take 2 but wiretransfer is nearly as fast anything else.
... but that of course means that you have to trust us, that we wont go away with your money.
And alltough you ordered us 7 times in the last years - by any reason trust seems the problem to me.

Regards,
Hendrik
Battle-Merchant