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Trouble with Tuner

WisSupra1

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Paid Marin for a full Ecutek unlock, license and custom flex tune in late March. Heard nothing for a month except one 'he's really busy right now' message. Started a chargeback with ccard company. In a couple of days I got another message from Marin and Kat pleading with me to cancel the chargeback and he will immediately refund and give me a free tune as he was sorry he didn't get to it. He gave me a story about a criminal incident where he and Kat were victims. So I canceled the chargeback (verified back on my card) and notified him. No refund since then (3 weeks ago) again in spite of several emails and messages. I'm calling the credit card company again today. That's the bad part.

The good part is that I called Marshal at Visconti the day I started the chargeback and paid for a Visconti tune about 5pm. At 11pm, John called me, immediately refunded me some of what I had paid Marshall (I didn't need an unlock and already had an Ecutek license in the ECU) and sent me a phone flash tune which I immediately installed. This was midnight John's time. And the E50 Flex Stage 2 91 custom tune is AMAZING. The moral IMO, go with the guys who consistently deliver. They might be a little more $$ but they deserve it.

From Marin:
If you can cancel the charge back we will gladly refund the order. I have been dealing with an emergency for over a month and it is finally coming to an end. A charge back however puts my account under review and freezes my account and charges me extra fee's. We typically do a refund minus the credit card fee of 3%. And im more than happy to refund it as I was not available due to a horrible emergency ive been dealing with.
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Can confirm this is not an isolated incident.

I’m sensitive to emergency personal matters, but if someone has time to write an email, they have time to process a refund.

In the immediate days following an emergency, I can understand some hiccups, but when we’re talking about several weeks to months, there’s no reason that measures cant be taken like:
- preventing new orders from going through if you can’t support them
- updating current customers in queue
- updating your email auto response

I’ve heard of Marin continuing progress on some projects/customers while others have been left hang to dry during this time.

I wish the best for the emergency situation, truly. And I’m sure in good times, Marin is a pleasure to deal with and a great tuner. But paying customers shouldn’t neglected for such a long time.

Potential customers should consider this a warning that *now* might not be the best time to work with this tuner.
 
 








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