I sent this email to Ryan, the Customer Service manager, on April 30, 2014.
I am writing to you about the three rolls of 120 film I sent to Duggal back in February to be low res scanned. The reason is that Duggal totally screwed up my order, to wit:
My order of February 28th specified: "I am enclosing three 120 rolls of Ilford XP2 B&W for scanning. I want full roll, 5 megabyte, Pro scanning. The three rolls are numbered 1474, 1475 and 1476. It is essential that these numbers are in the folder name for each roll you scan. In addition, it is essential that the scanned images on the CD be in the same order they are on the film rolls. If either of these requirements is not possible, then please do not scan the 3 rolls and send them back."
I sent the rolls to you by FedEx on Feb 28, and gave Duggal my FedEx number to send the rolls and scans back to me. I expected to get these back in a week. After 10 days I didn't receive my order, so I called customer service. It turned out that the rolls were misplaced; once found, I was told that they would be scanned and shipped within 2 days. Duggal charged my credit card $42.75 on 3/10/14. Another week went by without receipt of the rolls and scans, so I called a second time. This time, the scans had been done, but the order was shipped to my old address --the one you had for me in your computer, NOT the one on my order. In addition, the order was shipped WITHOUT requiring a signature guarantee! Fortunately, the new tenant in my old apartment turned the scans and rolls into the rental office. I then had to arrange--and pay for--FedEx to pick my order up and ship it to my correct address.
After all this, I received a thumb drive with your scans. But my MacBook Pro didn't recognized the drive so I couldn't import the scans. My Windows PC strung all the images together, instead of each roll separately as I had specified in my order, so these scans were useless to.
So I called you, Ryan. You posted the scans to Webcargo and sent me a CD with the scans. But Webcargo didn't work because of an error. So I imported the images from the CD. This is what I found:
Roll 1474: 1 scanned image--but there are 10 images on the roll.
Roll 1475: 8 scanned images--but there are 9 on the roll. You skipped the 8th frame.
Roll 1476: 15 scans and 15 frames, but followed by images that are not mine.
In sum, Duggal screwed up my order to a staggering extent, even giving you over a month to do the work I specified. In addition to the $42.75 I paid you, I had to pay FedEx three times, so I am out over $100 with nothing to show for it. Your scans not only did not follow my specific instructions, but are totally worthless to me. This horror show on the part of Duggal, obviously, is totally unacceptable. I therefore request and expect to receive a full refund of the $42.75 I paid Duggal back on March 10. If I do not receive a credit for $42.75 within a week of your receipt of this letter, I will contest the charge with USBank.
Thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this matter.
After this email, Duggal did refund the $42.75. But I was still out the FedEx charges for three shipments. I don't know how much this was exactly, but probably around $60.
Then I had to send the rolls to another lab to be scanned. If it cost about $20 each way, this adds up to yet $40 more dollars. read more