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Maria K.

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1 Review by Maria

  • Outland USA

6/12/19

BEWARE; OUTLAND USA is one of the WORST online companies, they practice nasty, unorthodox and manipulative tactics in sales. First, we ordered a bike helmet that was advertised on their website. The price they had online was advertised and used as bait, it was lower than most online retailers. They do that to lure you into buying their products, once the order was placed; we received an email after couple of days informing us that the product we ordered in not available and they will be happy to make a substitution for another helmet for free. That's where it gets tricky. We searched their online store for another bike helmet and we only found two helmets of the same size we need available on their online store. However, the price for these two helmets were way OVERPRICED and UNREALISTIC compared with other online retailers. As a matter of fact, I directed the representative assisting us to another online store that has the same helmet he was trying to sell us and was selling for HALF of their PRICE. He even joked about it, and I said "I should buy one for myself at this price". He tried very hard to trick us into buying one of their helmets at the inflated advertised price for the substitution and pay for the difference in price. We refused and asked him to honor the email and the pledge the company made to us when they did apologize for not fulfilling the order and offered a free substitution, but he totally refused. His goal was to score a sale and make us pay the extra monies for the helmet. In my opinion, I find this company to be a SCAM and their representatives are very well trained to practice the lowest class of deceit and devious ways to connive and trick customers into buying a product from them at a very unreasonable price. BEWARE and AVOID dealing with such a company that lacks moral standards, professionalism and has the poorest customer service.

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Outland U. – Outland USA Rep

Hi Maria, we're very sorry you had such a negative experience, but we assure you there was absolutely no attempt to scam you or force you into paying too much. The bike helmet you ordered was a discontinued item which we no longer carry, that's why it was at such a large discount. Unfortunately due to a rare system error which we have since fixed, the item was no longer in stock when you ordered it. If this happens, we do typically offer a close substitution for convenience. However, your request was to substitute a new much higher priced helmet for the original heavily discounted one, which we simply cannot do. We are sorry for the error and for the lack of suitable substitutes, but we assure you our customer service representatives have no interest or incentive to force customers into making purchases they are not comfortable with.

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