Shady Company.
This interaction happened on a sister site (ProPartsUSA.com) where they tried to upsell me to a lesser product. When I was concerned that it wasn't listed on their website they informed me that ProPartsUSA and ProPartsDepot.com are sister sites and it is listed on the latter. Thus I am leaving my review for both. (see below)
I ordered a part at ProPartsUSA due to it being half the cost compared to other sites. I was immediately informed it was on back order and asked if I wanted something different. I said I'd wait and asked how long. No response. Contacted them again and was told, "We responded on the 25th", and it'd be ~six weeks (there was nothing in my email or spam). After four weeks I contacted them again and asked for an updated ETA to ensure the part was on schedule. Once again no response. I contacted them again after a week and was told communication with the MFG is "VERY slow". Not sure how this excuses completely ignoring your customers. I was once again pressured to buy a different product and opted for other options. I was only given one--a product that wasn't even listed on their site. A lesser quality, less-aesthetically pleasing, lesser-known brand for $133 MORE than the previous part. No mention of the 30% off code I had previously used. A part that was on a more known--and at this point, much more reliable--competitors site for $130 less. At this I asked for a refund and expressed my lack of trust in an unknown brand and the fact that it isn't even listed on their site. They skirted around the refund request not once, but twice, and I was given a second website owned by the same company, where the product IS listed: propartsdepot.com, as well as an offer to price match the competitor if I take the time out of my day to prove the price. I still asked for a refund.
This is where it gets ugly. I then received a very curt "No problem.", followed by an immediate email and text that my order had been canceled and I had been refunded. I immediately went to Amazon Pay to check the status of the payment. No activity. After a couple of days I submitted a claim. No response. I then had to wait another week for amazon to make a judgement and force them to refund me for real.
All said and done the company held my money hostage just short of two months. While I can't prove this is the case, I personally believe that this is either an intentional bait-and-switch gig, or they did so because they realized their cost was far too low and they were going to lose money. Instead of sending the part and taking the loss while at the same time updating their pricing, they simply made excuses and continually tried to upsell me to a LESSER product. During this relationship they couldn't even be bothered to reply to my emails without me emailing them a second time. And when I finally did get them to "send a refund", either their system failed to notify Amazon of the refund or they intentionally tried to fake the refund. When I had to make a claim through Amazon pay they couldn't even be bothered to respond and say yeah, we messed up. Every single thing in this relationship has proven the company to be shady, if not potentially fraudulent.