Absolutely unacceptable, DSI is not able selling a dress
In the middle of December 2022 I sent an email inquiry regarding a stock dress to DSI. The first answer was quick, but incomplete.
It took 5 ½ weeks and a second mail from my side until I received all the information I had asked for.
End of January 2023 I decided to order a custom made dress instead. My DSI assistant Emma confirmed, that it was possible to get the dress until the end of March for a tournament.
But then many delays followed. Often I did not get any answer to my questions, and had to repeat them several times.
A sketch should be made – it took 12 days. It was not noticed, that I sent back the sketch signed – as required – the same day I received it. So the dress did not go on production. I was wondering, that I was not asked for my measurements. I sent them without being asked for, not knowing what was exactly needed.
Approaching the date, where the dress should be finished, I was 3 times!!!! begging for an invoice. Finally I got one, but it was wrong: VAT was included (the dress should go to Germany without VAT) and the price of the sketch was not reducted. I asked for a corrected invoice, neither I received any other invoice, nor the announced „world payment form“ for the money transfer. Remarkable is, that credit card payments are possible, but not by a secure process, you have to send your data by email!!!!!
The last message I received was that the glue of the dress did not dry as expected. They offered me to send the dress one day later. But I had no chance to pay the dress, without having received a correct invoice. I proposed, they should let the glue dry correctly , as I had no confidence that things would work in a hurry, and send me the dress later, when everything will be claryfied. The sending process regarding customs was also not clear. For my tournament it was too late anyhow.
Since then – end of March 2023 ( today is end of July 2023) - I did not receive any further message from DSI: no information, no invoice, no dress!!! Absolutely unprofessional and unreliable!!! During the whole process, I felt like a beggar instead of a customer!!!!
Finally, I found a remarkable sentence in „terms and conditions“ on DSI webside, No. 5 Prices: „VAT does not apply if the goods are being sent outside oft he EC.“
It seems, that DSI did not realise, that there was something like „Brexit“ a couple of years ago. By the way, according to history, „EC“ was renamed into „EU“ in 1993. So DSI obviously did not update their conditions for 30 years now!!!!!
22 maart 2023
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