This is not what I felt when I visited this store, but I will post what I felt when I used the Divers Supply online shopping site.
On June 4,2021, I ordered a strap belt with elastic function for a diving knife with a quantity of 20.
The shipping cost to Japan was $51.25, for a total cost of $210.25.
19 days had passed since I placed the order, but there was no announcement that the product had been shipped, so I sent a message to customer support to find out the status.
The following is a verbatim copy of the original message delivered by customer support.
We are waiting on 8 of the straps to come in. We have 12 of them that we can ship if you would like for us to ship those and cancel the others. Or we can wait for the others to come in!
I told customer support that I would wait until all 20 of the quantities I ordered were available.
It was the 4th of July. It had already been a month since I placed my order, but there was no announcement that my order had been shipped, so I sent five messages to customer support in July alone, asking about the status and reasons why my order had not been shipped.
The excuse from customer support is as follows.
Of course, the original text has been copied and posted as is.
As I have already stated. We have 12 of them, we can ship them now if you would like. We are still waiting on trident to get the remaining 8 in stock and shipped to us. They are the manufacturer who are out of them. I have stated this before. I have also stated that we can ship others that are in stock that are the exact same, made in the same place but are from another manufacturer. I also stated we can cancel and refund your order and no expense to you.
Although customer support suggested that I buy an alternative product with the same functionality, they did not provide me with any details of the product, nor did they attach any product images or even provide the unit price of the product.
The following is a original copy of the management philosophy of Divers Supply.
Divers Supply strives to get your ordered items to you as quickly as possible. If you need an item by a specific date, please contact us so that we can ensure your needs are met. In many cases, this may be as simple as changing the color or upgrading to a different product. We will do our best to meet your needs.
It's August 4th and already two months have passed since I placed my order. So I decided to send a message to the manufacturer and ask them why they can't provide products to Divers Supply.
I sent a message to Divers Supply's customer support and ended it with the following sentence.
I sent a direct message to Trident customer service today, so we should know soon who is lying.
On August 6, more than two months after I placed my order, I finally received a message from Divers Supply's customer support that all 20 of the items I ordered had been shipped.
Below is a copy of the original message sent to me by Divers Supply's customer support.
We look forward to it. Have a great day. Your account has been blocked and so have your messages. DO NOT ORDER FROM US AGAIN!
When the orders from users exceeded the amount of stock available at Divers Supply, I felt that the company was a seller with a rotten management philosophy that only made proposals that were convenient for them, abandoning even the company's efforts to meet users' demands without thinking from the standpoint of customers and fulfilling their responsibilities as a seller.
Customer support agents on online shopping sites do not fulfill their responsibilities as sellers, so buyers have to act on their own and spend valuable time to solve problems.
The item I purchased has not yet arrived in Japan, so I will evaluate it when I actually use it.