My "sponsor" ignores me. What should I do?

Timur

Steel Member
Hello guys!
I don't think that a lot of you are into the European scooter scene, but maybe some of you noticed that French-ID has actually 3 flow teams - French, CZ and Russian (you can check them at www.frenchid.com). So, I am the leader of Russian flow team, I have 50% discount, other members have 30% and all the rest who just want to join the order have 20%. About 3 months ago we made our first order and sent 300.33 euros for our parts to FrenchID representatives. First it was ok, their manager wrote that he received our money and will send order quickly; the shipping itself, as he said, will take about 7 working days. Well, after that everything started to seem like the complete nightmare! Two weeks later, as no parts arrived, I decided to wrte a letter. They ignored it. One more - same reaction. So I wrote to their CEO and only after that I received an answer. "Sorry, you've sent only 260.33, sent more". I was like WTF?! Here's a screenshot from my telebank service, it says "300.33 euros"! Are you trying to trick me? They said that the'll see what they can do. So, in the end of the april (!!!) I received one more letter: "OK, you'll have your parts, I'll send it right now". So, after two more weeks of ignored mails in which I was asking for a tracking number, I finally got it. Guess what happend next? "Shipment returned to sender" - that's what I got on a tracking web-service. One more week passed, and they wrote that they had some problems with putting parts into boxes. But that's not my business, actually. They are the sponsors, so they must predict such cases and prevent them. Whatever... "Put it right and send me again!" - I said. No answer again.... 3 months have passed!
I am really tired of all that. My teammates hate me cause it was my idea to take them on a flow team, but they still wait for their parts, so do I.
Honestly, I was never treated so badly and don't know what to do at the moment. These frenchies just destroy their own reputation on an emerging Russian scootering market. We suppose to promote their brand here. And I had a lot of potential costumers, but now I returned them their money cause they obviously didn't like such case and I don't want them to suffer like the flow team.

Can someone tell me what to do in this situation?
 

edy boi

Member
dude that sucks honestly french id is kinda of gay now after some people left from there but the best u coul do is probably order from wee scooters there hella legit and will ship your stuff hope that helps
 

Isaac Coy

Steel Member
First, watch the movie "Rambo:First Blood". Be sure to watch part 1 and part 2.
Study the actions in this motion picture, and take into consideration the torture you have gone through in the past 3 months.
 

Joe Riley

The Gypsy
Staff member
French iD has fallen apart, imo. Most of the previous team left for that reason, they screw over all their team members.
 

Flo T.

Member
French ID is actually unlegit
Lukas Hornik,an austrian rider has the same problem
they said, yes your in the flow team but
1 week later he wrote an email to them and they said, we are not sure if you are in the team
now they ignore our mails

what should he do noww???
 

JDBen

BST Moderator
Staff member
haha they screwed over Luke Painter, Graham Kimbell and Joe McDonald.

Luke Painter and Graham are on Dogg and MaddGear like me
and Joe McDonald is on Razor.

haha says it all.
 

edy boi

Member
ya dude there parts arnet even good now haha but oold frid parts even tho there hard to find are some of the best out there
 

Dustin Nooner

Super queer.
I like French iD but if thats how theyre treating you then leave the team. Your only on flow its not that big of a deal. youll find better trust me. I have had to do the same thing. its business. so do what you feel you should :) you wanna leave then leave.
 
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Kieran Mayhew

Guest
hmmm its all very well him quitting and looking for a new sponsor but the europe scene is shiite and there arent that many europe teams. frenchid is the main one but they screw everyone over. however theres always teams like district and eagle, but they may be harder to get on.
 

Timur

Steel Member
I like French iD but if thats how theyre treating you then leave the team. Your only on flow its not that big of a deal. youll find better trust me. I have had to do the same thing. its business. so do what you feel you should :) you wanna leave then leave.

Exactly!
I was thinking of quitting but here in Russia you can live like the whole month on these 300 euros without any problems. And I actually like FrenchID parts, they're light and good-looking. So I'll wait for this shipment to arrive and see what I can do next
Thanks for your advices anyway, guys!
 

proudlefty

Steel Member
I say drop them so fucking hard they don't know what happened. If they treat u that terribly it's not even worth it. You pretty much got screwed out of 300 euros man so screw them. It seems to me that being on the team is sounding worse than not so if I were u i'd email them and say "hey u'd better look at this and get it cause this is pretty important. If u don't send me my parts and make up for this I quit and u lose ur Russian leader and a hella good rider."
 

Steezeman

Administrator
The bottom line is that whether or not they are a sponsor, you paid them for parts and you need to get them.
 

edy boi

Member
The bottom line is that whether or not they are a sponsor, you paid them for parts and you need to get them.

thats exactly right 100% and i dont know what part of russia u live in but if they dont send u ur parts sue ther asses only thing u can do
 
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