Amazon pricing glitch - decent cheap reel at insanely cheap price

Dear kms,

Thanks for the tip. For the price of a pizza and a 12 pack I bought one of each! 😉

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
where do you get such cheap pizza and beer? For me one of each reel would be a pizza OR a 12 pack.
 
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where do you get such cheap pizza and beer? For me one of each reel would be a pizza OR a 12 pack.
Dear Kms,

I live out in the weeds outside of Harrisburg PA. I have a great pizza place 10 minutes away, a large with pepperoni and mushrooms is $ 21.00. It's next to an Exxon gas station and convenience store with a beer license that has 6-packs of Hamm's Pounders for $ 4.49. Sometimes you find gems! 😉

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
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Aventik has lots of fly fishing items listed for sale on Amazon, and on EBay. One thing about the Chinese is that they have no hesitancy in copying anything they can get their hands on, with no regards to international laws or business ethics.

Take Tiemco/TMC hooks for example. A qty of 100 TMC 2457 hooks sell for nearly $40.00 today. Aventik has a similar hook, that they unabashedly label as EP-TMC-2457 and sell it for $5.61.

View attachment 1641241574I’m concerned that the more Chinese goods we buy, the more they get imbedded in us, by hook or crook, and if and when we need to extract some of that from our economy it will be very painful to get it out.
Wait till those tariffs hit.
 
Dear mt_flyfisher,

We don't make hooks in America, so we need to buy them from offshore suppliers. Even in the "glory days" of flyfishing we didn't make hooks. They came from Norway and England.

Then came the Japanese. We rebuilt the country, might as well buy from them, right?

It's a hook, being chemically sharpened using premium alloy steel doesn't mean much when it's stuck to a rock, or in a tree now does it?

YMMV

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

Edited to add. I bought big when Mustad hooks were $ 2.00 a hundred decades ago. I still haven't run out of them either.
I did too I wish I would have purchased more
 
Just bought the 7/8 for my 6wt rod. I was thinking about buying a "higher end reel" but could not justify the price on any current reels. So I bought this, and even if it is the worst reel in the world it is better than no reel!

Edit: they are now doing another 50% off at checkout. So it was 8 dollars!
 
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So I bought this, and even if it is the worst reel in the world it is better than no reel!
It is far better than the garbage reel that came on my first Quarrow starter setup. At $8 with two extra reels, it’s worthwhile as line storage.
 
Even weirder, the 7/8 is $8.44 for the reel with two extra spools, but $27.08 without the extras. Which is why I called it a pricing glitch.
Dear Kms,

Weirder still, I ordered the Casstle version of the 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8 reels. I received single reels in 3/4 and 5/6 but the full package with extra spools for the 7/8. I called Amazon to question why they didn't fulfill the order and said we'll send you two new ones and a pick-up tag for the incorrect shipment.

Two days later I got single reels with no extra spools once again. I called Amazon to complain, and they said we only ship we aren't the seller. I said BS, then why do you have the reels pictured with spare spools? They said send the first two back and keep these two that you just received and we will credit the purchase. So, I did but haven't received a credit yet. I doubt I will either.

I also contacted Aventik 3 times and have heard NOTHING from them.

I'm absolutely not blaming you. I should have stuck with my gut and not ordered anything because the deal was too good to be true. But, I didn't.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
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Dear Kms,

Weirder still, I ordered the Casstle version of the 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8 reels. I received single reels in 3/4 and 5/6 but the full package with extra spools for the 7/8. I called Amazon to question why they didn't fulfill the order and said we'll send you two new ones and a pick-up tag for the incorrect shipment.

Two days later I got single reels with no extra spools once again. I called Amazon to complain, and they said we only ship we aren't the seller. I said BS, then why do you have the reels pictured with spare spools? They said send the first two back and keep these two that you just received and we will credit the purchase. So, I did but haven't received a credit yet. I doubt I will either.

I also contacted Aventik 3 times and have heard NOTHING from them.

I'm absolutely not blaming you. I should have stuck with my gut and not ordered anything because the deal was too good to be true. But, I didn't.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
I’m sorry that happened to you. The same thing happened to me when I ordered the 5/6 package last year, and Aventik sent me the two extra reels at no charge.

I can’t promise anything of course, as I’m not the seller, but try this email address: csa09@aventiksports.com.
 
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I’m sorry that happened to you. The same thing happened to me when I ordered the 5/6 package last year, and Aventik sent me the two extra reels at no charge.

I can’t promise anything of course, as I’m not the seller, but try this email address: csa09@aventiksports.com.
Dear Kms,

That is a different email address than Amazon gave me for Aventik. I wrote another message and we'll see what happens.

Thanks,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
I ordered the 5/6 and the 7/8 Thursday. The 5/6 came without spools in a torn up bag. I returned the 5/6 as per Amazon.
 
I ordered the 5/6 and the 7/8 Thursday. The 5/6 came without spools in a torn up bag. I returned the 5/6 as per Amazon.
Dear Trapshooter,

The 7/8 size came in a cordura bag with the 2 spare spools.

Both orders of the 3/4 and 5/6 came as a single reel with spool in a white cardboard box. Amazon really PO'ed me when they said "We're just the shipper." I said I ordered from your page and paid you, take responsibility. Amazon laughed.

It's really only the 2nd ordered they failed epically on in 15 years or more so I guess I can deal with that. But they suck at customer service.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
Dear Trapshooter,

The 7/8 size came in a cordura bag with the 2 spare spools.

Both orders of the 3/4 and 5/6 came as a single reel with spool in a white cardboard box. Amazon really PO'ed me when they said "We're just the shipper." I said I ordered from your page and paid you, take responsibility. Amazon laughed.

It's really only the 2nd ordered they failed epically on in 15 years or more so I guess I can deal with that. But they suck at customer service.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
In for an order of the 7/8 with spools 🙂

Amazon is hit or miss.. I once ordered some silicone rubber bands, to hold my backpacking pot lids on. They sent me the wrong item. Returned it. They sent me the same wrong item, again. They had something screwed up in their system and the robots were just fulfilling what the computer told them to... Actually got a human to intervene after the second order and got the right item eventually.

You'll usually get your money back if the order is fulfilled by Amazon and it is messed up. But steer clear of the sold by/fulfilled by third party sellers. Or if you care anything at all about items being counterfeit.

Avoid, like the plague, anything sold through Amazon Warehouse (their resale arm for returned goods). Zero good experiences with that.. Scammers galore - bought a 10 piece Vise Grip set through that to save a few bucks. And got the item. With 2 pieces out of 10...
 
In for an order of the 7/8 with spools 🙂

Amazon is hit or miss.. I once ordered some silicone rubber bands, to hold my backpacking pot lids on. They sent me the wrong item. Returned it. They sent me the same wrong item, again. They had something screwed up in their system and the robots were just fulfilling what the computer told them to... Actually got a human to intervene after the second order and got the right item eventually.

You'll usually get your money back if the order is fulfilled by Amazon and it is messed up. But steer clear of the sold by/fulfilled by third party sellers. Or if you care anything at all about items being counterfeit.

Avoid, like the plague, anything sold through Amazon Warehouse (their resale arm for returned goods). Zero good experiences with that.. Scammers galore - bought a 10 piece Vise Grip set through that to save a few bucks. And got the item. With 2 pieces out of 10...
Dear salmonoid,

The saga continues. Like I said I got one complete order of the 3 reels I ordered. I returned the two incorrect reels that I received and as Amazon's effort to fix their false advertising. I was refunded that purchase. Amazon sucks as far as delivering on their product advertisements, that was the least they could do.

I suggested a better alternative after receiving the two incorrect reels as replacement for the first two incorrect reels they shipped. I offered to call it square and forget the 2nd spool for each reel. They said they can't do that. They need to learn that can't, and won't mean different things.

But after repeated emails to Aventik, the seller, I got a response from them to provide my original order asking for my original Amazon order and pictures of what I received. I provided that to them tonight.

Stay tuned!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
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Dear salmonoid,

The saga continues. Like I said I got one complete order of the 3 reels I ordered. I returned the two incorrect reels that I received and as Amazon's effort to fix their false advertising. I was refunded that purchase. Amazon sucks as far as delivering on their product advertisements, that was the least they could do.

I suggested a better alternative after receiving the two incorrect reels as replacement for the first two incorrect reels they shipped. I offered to call it square and forget the 2nd spool for each reel. They said they can't do that. They need to learn that can't, and won't mean different things.

But after repeated emails to Aventik, the seller, I got a response from them to provide my original order asking for my original Amazon order and pictures of what I received. I provided that to them tonight.

Stay tuned!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
That’s how it went for me. Amazon failed, but Aventik made good after I provided them with my order info and pictures. If you look at the reviews you’ll see that amazon has been screwing this up for nearly a year.

Aventik actually express mailed (two days!) the extra spools from China. I was very favorably impressed.
 
That’s how it went for me. Amazon failed, but Aventik made good after I provided them with my order info and pictures. If you look at the reviews you’ll see that amazon has been screwing this up for nearly a year.

Aventik actually express mailed (two days!) the extra spools from China. I was very favorably impressed.
Dear Board,

Since Amazon refunded my purchase of the reels they mis-shipped 2 times, Aventik says there is nothing they can do for me. I got a 7/8 reel with all the parts and 2 smaller reels for nothing.

I really wanted the extra spools though.

Regards.

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
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