The brake booster went out on the 66 GS. I checked around and found prices from 79.00 to over 250.00. Things being tight I went with the 79.00 new one on E-Bay. Well it arrived and while it was not marked I would say just by looking at it and the hardware it came with it is probably Chinese made. The bracket bolted to it did fit on the fire wall and after cutting a bit off the threaded rod I was able to fit the clevis on the pedal. It advertised it came with a adapter to fit the deep bore master cylinder. The adapter did not fit in the bore and was to wide to work. Mad at myself I was determined to make it work. My buddy down the street is in to old Norton Triumph etc motorcycles and I caught him in his garage and he chucked up the adapter in his lathe and cut it to size. It now works fine and other then it looks a bit different from the original seems like it will do the job. Will it last 46 years like the original? I doubt it. My question is do I give this part and seller a negative feedback? The part does work. But I could not tell anyone to buy one as it is what it is. A low quality cheap part that does not just bolt in. Bill
Before you give negative feedback, it would have been best to ask to retunr item for a full refund including shipping when the first issue surfaced and that would have been based on the item not being as advertised. The problem with giving a negative now is that you used the item and its working. The seller can and will use that against you for not asking for a refund. In other words you have to give the seller a chance to make it right. Similar instances have happened to me where I picked the cheap route because I didn't want to spend the money for known quality and then became disgusted with myself ou: because after receiving the item it caused more grief than the few bucks I saved. Sometimes it works out though. An option would be to contact the seller and describe the problems. Ask for a partial refund like $25 to cover the extra work you had to do and see what happens. If they say no too late for that, probably more appropriate is a neutral feedback and describe why but if you can get something out of them be prepared to give a positive.
I agree with Jason. I have only given out a few negatives in the nearly 9 years I've been with ebay, and I'm not a full timer (429 as of today). In those cases it has been where someone won the auction, failed to pay for it and never had any further contact with me. In your case you have to consider more than just the fact that the adaptor needed to be modified. Does it work as it's supposed to? For the most part, did he accurately describe the item? Did he ship it in a timely manner? Be honest, you already knew it was going to be a low quality Chinese part before you bought it, otherwise you would have bought the $250 unit from someone else. Contact the seller and see if he'll work with you a little on it but I'd still give him a little slack on the feedback and don't use it as an opportunity to strike back at him. Call me nieve but I still believe the world would be a better place if everyone wasn't so poised and ready to strike out at others all the time.
