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So my solar HWS needs new seals for the evacuated tubes (they enter the tank and hold water).
Find some on AliExpress and order them.
So I track the order progress and it's 'airline handover failure'.
Plus they've been sent standard delivery after I paid twenty bucks for express.
Message the supplier.
'Well you supplied a PO box address and not a physical address so the airline refused acceptance' - yeah duh because they'll be posted because they're so small, and I'm in the bush so I don't get letterbox delivery.
So they suggest opening a dispute for a refund.
I don't want a refund - I want the seals.
So I ask them to send them again by express delivery.
'No can do' - Chinese new year. Will send them in six days. Yeah right.
They laugh at us because we have no history and no culture and they've had thousands of years of civilisation and the highest average national IQ yet they pull this stunt.
Luckily the existing seals aren't leaking too badly but really ......