Terry H.
Lurepartsonline complaint
I make fishing lures and sell them on eBay. I am 72 yrs. old and make several different types of fishing lures kind of like a hobby and really enjoy doing to pass the time and my hobby has grown into a small business these days. I make Vibrating Jigs and Bladed Swim Jigs along with some other types of baits. They have Blades that are called Jig Dancer Blades by Lurepartsonline.com. The cost of them these day are somewhere between .60 and .66 cents. They are #1231 Jig Dancer Blades that are black and have been painted with black paint. When I first started purchasing them from Lurepartsonline.com several years ago I found that almost every package they sent me there were some that had not been painted black properly and they were so bad I could not use them to sell to my customers so I put them in a bag that had originally come from lurepartsonline. Recently I sent 57 of them back to them, asking them to trade them out or give me a store credit for them. They did not even acknowledge that I had returned them so I sent them an email with a copy of what I originally sent them asking them what was the problem? Then a very arrogant man called me and told me that they were not going to do anything about them telling me that they had to be returned within 30 days to receive a credit. Most of the time when I purchase 100 or more of them at a time I would not even open the package for several months until I needed them. This arrogant man told me that I was supposed to open each package and go through them one at a time and then sent them back to him for a refund or exchange or something. So what he was telling me was I had to send one blade back to him that costs about the same amount as a stamp these days to get a refund. I told him that I had saved him a whole bunch of money by doing it the way I did, just collecting the junk they sent me and send them all back to him at one time and he really got upset at me for questioning the way he did business. He told me that the blades were counted by a machine and then put into a bag without anyone ever even looking at them. That may be fine for the 100 packs but are you trying to tell me that when they put 10 in a bag and sell them that way nobody is looking at them. He is a liar and he knows it and he also told me that he had never had a complaint about the paint problem with the blades. I would almost stake my life on that lie also. I find it hard to believe that there are people out there that would put junk blades on their product for their customers. Anyway I just wanted for the 57 blades to be replaced or give me a store credit and he just arrogantly told me no and when he could not get me to go along with his garbage he hung up on me. So here are a couple of things you should know about Lurepartsonline.com and their prices. Also here are a couple tips for those out there that spend their hard earned money at Lurepartsonline.com. The Jig Dancer blades can be purchased much cheaper at another parts warehouse in Texas called Barlowstackle.com. Also the spinnerbait skirts and spinnerbait skirt tabs can be purchased at a place called Siliconetabs.com at a much cheaper price that lurepartsonline.com. And if you will go to eBay you will find a tremendous selection of silicone skirt tabs by just typing that in and there are a bunch of them and most of them have great prices on their stuff. And then there is Fishingskirts.com that has an awesome selection and several others that have much cheaper prices than Lurepartsonline.com that just rip you off something terrible. And there is also JannsNetcraft.com which is also another fishing lure components business. Hope this helps you in making choices in purchasing your fishing lure components.