SELECTIVE AND SELF SERVING CUSTOMER "SERVICE"
Bought a replica C96 broom handle holster from RTI via eBay. Description said that some slight work might have to be done to make the gun fit. Wrong. The inside height needs to be increased by at least 1/4 inch. The metal rail on the end of the holster that slides into the groove on the grip is too wide, needs to be filed or ground down. The openings for the grip when in the holster aren't right. This is not "slight work. I can't do it, especially the metal work.
I sent the seller a message explaining the problems and attached photos. Then I opened an eBay return request 2 days after not hearing from the seller. The seller refused the return request, yet later told me that she never said I couldn't return the holster.
Next I made a BBB complaint, having found others against RTI, with RTI responding to them. I asked as a resolution that the seller contact me via eBay. It worked, she did, but then asked me twice to contact her outside of eBay, which eBay doesn't allow. She also lied in her reply to the BBB, told them that I could have called them (How? eBay doesn't give out phone numbers and doesn't allow it), and said I filed the BBB complaint right after sending her the eBay message about problems, with photos attached, not giving her time to reply, not true. Other complainants also mention RTI rebuttals containing distorted timelines.
She told me that she wanted me to call her outside of eBay to discuss the problems with the holster. I pointed out an earlier eBay message in which I DID describe the problems and attach photos. She didn't answer.
The seller said she'd ask her boss about a partial refund and never did, never mentioned it again even after I reminded her about it.
She suggested an exchange, sending me a "larger" holster, but the holsters don't come in different sizes. Finding a "larger one" would be a lucky chance thing and I didn't want to end up right back where I am now.
Finally after ignoring more messages from me and refusing to reply to simple questions like, "Is a partial refund still possible?", I got a terse "return it for a refund" at my expense, end of story. As she refused my ebay return request I couldn't make another one and didn't want to make a return outside of eBay, with no eBay buyer protection.
At one point I thanked the seller for seeming to make an attempt to assist me, pointed out problems with the item again, said I'd have no problem resolving the BBB complaint in her favor at some point, and she brought this up two days later when I kept insisting that we resolve things through eBay and accused me of extortion. After telling me to return the item outside of eBay at my expense, with no refund protection, the seller sent me a message in which she briefly answered half a dozen questions that she didn't answer while we were conversing. "I didn't reply to your question about a partial refund because...". She sent me a "summary".
Nice looking holster for $180 plus that does NOT work with a C96 Mauser unless you do more work on it than the description says. Seller refused an eBay return, didn't reply to initial messages, contacted me via eBay only after making a BBB complaint, ignored simple questions, said she'd ask her boss about a partial refund but never did, and asked me to resolve the problem outside of eBay. Based on other feedback for RTI left here, on Yelp!, the BBB and elsewhere, my experience is not singular.
The customer service rep, who gushed on the BBB site about wanting to give good customer service - did just the opposite.
13 de fevereiro de 2026
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