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Well, its now almost six months since I purchased a pair of tan arm brackets from bmw-00001; have not received them yet. Am I confused, or didn't he change his eBay identity to mopar-engineparts.de? I just received an eMail from mopar-engineparts.de claiming he is not bmw-00001.
 
Geez... Sorry to hear that. If you would have posted here before I would of giving you the heads up to stay away. That guys sells Er... Lists a lot of coupe stuff on the bay.

I made the mistake of buying a steering universal from him. I had to threaten him several times finally had to file a fraud seller thru paypal before I ever got his attention.

About a month or so later I revieved a package with the wrong part. :x

Its still floating around somewhere in my garage. All I remember was going to install it and finding out it was the wrong part then throwing it on the floor and saying a few choice words.

The guy also changed his ebay name because he had so many neg responses.

Oh well lesson learned. :roll:
 
I had heard about him; it was a calculated risk on my part. His feedback seemed to indicate that it was hit or miss as to whether you would get burned. Its only $40, but still, talk about aggravation. If I'm ever in Munich I'm going to pay him a visit! After sending me several eMails under his new "identity" assuring me that he will ship the part, he now has the nerve to tell me he's not who I think he is!
 
The same parts are for sale on German E- Bay but the sellers id is BMW-Classic Passion created 5-26-06. I bought some items from bmw-interieur(no longer registered) which are same items these sellers are selling. It was a good transaction took a little long to ship but not 6 months.... Are these all the same person that changes id when bad feedback score rises? The armrest parts they list look like E3 Bavaria parts not E9.
Jef Rolison
 
Stay away from Peter Schimmelpfeng ([email protected]) and [email protected], who I'm now pretty sure is the same person. He can't even keep track of the eMails he's sent me, which sort of gave his identity away. He's insisting that he sent me not just one but two sets of the parts I won on eBay! I wish I had two sets of everything for my coupe. I can accept the possibility of something getting lost in the mail, but twice?
 
I bought several parts from Peter and his brother (cant't recall his name). They were as advertised or better. He did send me the wrong armrests one time, but promply sent me the correct ones and said to keep the wrong ones for my trouble. I got a new set of '02 and e9 front armrests for the bargain price of one set.

I guess I was lucky because of all of the negative comments I have seen about Peter and his different ebay names since that time.
 
I made sure he had my correct shipping address. He asked for it again after the first set of parts didn't show. Now he's refusing to send a "third" set. I've had parts purchased on eBay sent from Europe before, but this is a first. This has been incredibly frustrating, and in what seems a potential hit or miss situation with this guy, I came up on the wrong side...
 
hallo,
I saw some people are angry about me , everybody who gets anything from me can contact me , than I will check if these buyers have payed for cheapest way of shipping (uninsured and unregistered ) or have payed insured registered airmail.

Everybody who have said , goods are not arrived , I have sent the parts a second time !!!!

But sure I will not send a third time !!!

There are always 2 sides of a story !!

All people who have choosen registered insured airmail are satisfied with my parts , but these who wanted cheapest way of shipping ....


regards
 
hallo,
I saw some people are angry about me , everybody who gets anything from me can contact me , than I will check if these buyers have payed for cheapest way of shipping (uninsured and unregistered ) or have payed insured registered airmail.

Everybody who have said , goods are not arrived , I have sent the parts a second time !!!!

But sure I will not send a third time !!!

There are always 2 sides of a story !!

All people who have choosen registered insured airmail are satisfied with my parts , but these who wanted cheapest way of shipping ....


regards
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Sir, you are correct, there are two sides to every story and you are free to refute, in detail, any accusations that any member here has made against you (and you might want to to do just that).

But just a word to the wise as far as selling parts/items online (eBay, Craigslist, etc.), people in this country especially, expect sellers to describe items accurately and to ship those same items in a timely manner. I have noticed how some folks in other countries simply don't see the urgency to things like this the same way that American's do and what it amounts to is a cultural gap.
 
All my description was truth , and the fotos also, the mainproblem is that they forget the distance from more than 10 000 miles and who payes cheapest way by surface - by boat it takes more than 6 weeks to arrive.

I can understand that many getting nervous about there parts and their money.
But the other side is , I have sent the parts , they claim the money over paypal, and at least I have lost my parts and my money + cost for shipping .
+ negative feedback .
And after 6-8 weeks the parts are ariving and who will remember to pay the money back to me ?
 
All my description was truth , and the fotos also, the mainproblem is that they forget the distance from more than 10 000 miles and who payes cheapest way by surface - by boat it takes more than 6 weeks to arrive.

I can understand that many getting nervous about there parts and their money.
But the other side is , I have sent the parts , they claim the money over paypal, and at least I have lost my parts and my money + cost for shipping .
+ negative feedback .
And after 6-8 weeks the parts are ariving and who will remember to pay the money back to me ?
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One way you can alleviate these problems in the future is to make, as a condition of your eBay auction, that the buyer must use the faster airmail route (even if it is more expensive), that way they are not waiting 6 weeks for their item. Also, I don't know if you have FedEx or UPS available to you but this is a great way to show the people that have purchased from you that their item is shipped. You simply send them the tracking number and they can track their shipment on their own. Since you are 10000 miles away, you can also double check before you even send the item by sending the buyer a digital picture to make sure that you are sending the right item to the right person and then printing that picture and taping it to the box (of course removing the picture before you actually ship it). These are just suggestions so use your best judgement.

Again, Americans take this stuff very seriously and they leave very little room for error. They expect that if you are taking the time to sell items online that you can do so in a fast and efficient manner.
 
you are right , I will charge more money for registered airmail, and will not offer cheap way of shipping.

UPS or DHL want till 1 kg 110,- euros = nearly 160.00 $ but for this shipping price nobody will buy anything .
 
All I can say about Peter , is that he's a nice guy(and have couple of nice dogs)

hope you remember me Peter !

I bought inside chroms for my E9 (armrest top +etc) ,But I always picked them up personally !!! There was no problem at all !!!!


I know this is quite difficult for you guys in the US,but in this case you should use a US source,less complicated.
 
I also purchased from this gentleman. It did take a while for the part to arrive, but it did arrive as described. When I informed him that one of the items was damaged during transport he sent me a replacement free of charge.

I would second other comments that better 2-way communication and expectation setting would result in happier customers, who would be inclined to purchase more.
 
schimmelpfeng said:
you are right , I will charge more money for registered airmail, and will not offer cheap way of shipping.

UPS or DHL want till 1 kg 110,- euros = nearly 160.00 $ but for this shipping price nobody will buy anything .
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Then it's probably not worth your time to sell to customers in the US. US customers are used to getting product almost immediately after purchase(This is the expectation of a US customer). If they have to wait weeks for something to arrive on their door step they are going to be very, very angry. Regular airmail or UPS is not that expensive from my experience and I have shipped to Europe and received items from Japan so I do not know where you are getting your pricing from. But I would highly recommend that you ship in a manner where it is received in a week or less and that you stay in constant communication with your customer until product arrives so their is no confusion as to who is getting what and when.

Oh, and if you have any outstanding issues with people you have sold to, I would suggest that you try to make things right so no one can criticize you for not being an upstanding seller.
 
Please allow me to add a perspective to this subject:
Peter Schimmelpfeng manages and markets an inventory of thousands of various parts, not just for BMW but also other makes and for US cars, not to mention a myriad of technical bearings for anything you can think of, and this almost single handely. I am not quite sure how he does it but I can imagine that it sometimes gets pretty hectic at times and that customer follow up may suffer. Scamming or intent to defraud is unlikely.

Shipping postal surface rate (now called Bulk rate) is an affordable way to ship from Europe to the U.S. but with the following drawbacks:
Shipping time can vary from one week to 5 weeks +, depending on how far the addressee is from the Airport of entry (yes, the parcels are flown over), the customs screening and the number of postal hubs that the parcel has to go through. Lost items are rare although sometimes roughly handled and tracking is limited to date of departure and arrival through customs. Loss or damage claims are lengthy and uncertain and extra insurance is not available.

Gerrit
 
This all sounds like a bunch of hooey to me. I too have purchased items from Peter that I never received. At the same time, I have received some items after a very long delay and lots of status inquiries. There is a clear trend emerging in this thread.

I routinely send items internationally by First Class mail and the cost it no where near $160 / kilo. It also arrives within 5-10 days. I also receive items from sellers around the world in the same manner without unusual costs, delays or need to reship because items are lost.

So Peter, as everyone has said, you need to be serious about your business. You need to ship promptly and respond to inquiries promptly. You also need to offer reasonable shipping options. You should reject the slow route but you also don't need to only offer service by overnight / 48 hour carriers either. Please consider 1st class Bundes Post; they have been in business for a few years and they know how to deliver; they also had a good relationship with the US Post Office. You should also consider using registered or certified service which generally only costs a few dollars more.
 
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