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I have now escalated my dispute through PayPal to a full on claim.  I am willing to take a 2/3 partial refund because they only shipped one of the three discs they owe me.  I am done playing with Girder and will not trust them again in the future.  Next week will make two full months since I ordered.  I am not getting these discs from him.  I can order them elsewhere.

alldatndensum wrote:

I have now escalated my dispute through PayPal to a full on claim.  I am willing to take a 2/3 partial refund because they only shipped one of the three discs they owe me.  I am done playing with Girder and will not trust them again in the future.  Next week will make two full months since I ordered.  I am not getting these discs from him.  I can order them elsewhere.

Between what happened to you and what others have said I will never order from them myself.

Girder = worse store ever. 
... nuff said.

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Girder = worse store ever. 
... nuff said.

Nope, that title belongs to Divine Metal Distro. Remember them? Then they reappeared as the Christian Metal Yardsale.

I never had any issues from Divine Metal Distro until after they were one of the three companies behind IMR.  Then, when all that began to meltdown, I just pulled away from them to be safe as to not lose money.  I still prefer to get stuff either from Matt Hunt (Retroactive), Roxx, or Boone's Overstock if I am not using Amazon.  Christian Rock Shop is pretty good, too; however, I don't find as many things there that I am interested in.

I thought Matt Hunt was Boone's Overstock 

Maybe he is.  I was thinking Brent but I think you are right.

I have had problems with Grider when I ordered the Gideon album.
It took a long time before I've gotten the package.

Girder contacted me after I got a little snarky with their email to preorder the new Stryper CD.  They have promised to mail my CDs today, but I somehow don't believe them.  They've had time to run to festivals and are bound to have carried stock with them.  Anyway, after promising to mail them today, Greg of Girder asked if PayPal had already refunded my money.  Seriously?  I checked my claim status there and they are awaiting for him to even answer.

I have stated that I will drop the claim when the CDs are in my mailbox.  I even reassured him that he had my email stating that if he didn't believe me.  He could use that against me if needed so that he could be assured that I am not just trying to get free stuff/money from him. 

IF I get those CDs, I will do more than just close the claim.  I will erase my post from Facebook about this situation.  While I do want people to be aware that his business practices aren't the best, I will not continue to make trouble for Girder if he finally comes through with his half of the sale.  I think that would be best to let it go and just not deal with him again in the future.

Yeah, I got burned by Girder years ago and would never order from them again. Sorry to hear others are struggling with them still.

I pretty much stick with eBay, Amazon, Christian Metal Distro, Christian Rock Shop, Nightmare Records, Brent Miller and a few others.

I mostly use Amazon these days.  However, you cannot get all titles from them that you might be interested in.  All I can do is just learn from this if I get my stuff and not allow this to happen to me again.

I've gotten to the point that if I'm not buying it from Amazon, I'm buying it from the artist.

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

I thought Matt Hunt was Boone's Overstock 

He is

ishmael81 wrote:

I've gotten to the point that if I'm not buying it from Amazon, I'm buying it from the artist.

Pretty much the same here.  Although I will buy from Roxx on occasion if they have something I just have to have on CD (once or twice a year typically)

I have gotten to the point where I buy any new CD release directly from Amazon, or Matt, or the artist. And I buy it as a pre-order usually.

Far too many high quality counterfeits on eBay anymore, also. They look REAL nowadays. Silver discs, disc codes, etc etc

I will buy digital downloads from iTunes (and then convert it to mp3 as I don't use itunes/apple), Amazon, or Google


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I got ONE of the two missing discs today.  It seems that Girder was still out of stock of The Altar Boys "When You're A Rebel" and got it shipped to me from Boone's Overstock.  The Steve Taylor album I bought is still out there somewhere.  Once I have them both, I will stop my claim with PayPal as I only wanted the music--not to rip anyone off.

I finally got my two CDs from Girder!  It only took 2 months, but I got them.  I have, as promised, dropped my claim with PayPal.  I have also unsubscribed from Girder's mailing list for the time being.