Delivery and Returns

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POLICY

Delivery Policy

MERSAT ELECTRONICS delivers within South Africa. During the checkout process, you will determine your delivery method, MERSAT ELECTRONICS will determine the cost for your delivery option based on your address and postal code. For South African orders, irrespective of whether you select door to door delivery, or door to shop delivery, MERSAT ELECTRONICS will deliver within 4 working days depending on where you live. Working days are defined to be Mondays to Fridays excluding public holidays.

Should you have any queries regarding your delivery options, please email online@mersat.co.za.

Late Delivery

The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 (“ECT Act”) entitles you to cancel your purchase within 7 days’ notice if the products you have purchased are not be delivered within the agreed delivery period as specified in the MERSAT ELECTRONICS terms and conditions. The product(s) in question must be returned to one of the provided warehouses stipulated by Mersat, in their original state, including all labels. Any such cancellation must be done by either calling Mersat on (+27) 82 789 3331 or email online@mersat.co.za. 

Stock Shortages

Should a product you have ordered be:

  1. temporarily unavailable,MERSAT ELECTRONICS will notify you thereof as well as the anticipated delay in delivery and, unless you agree to wait for such longer period for delivery, or accept delivery of another product instead, MERSAT ELECTRONICS will issue a refund in respect of that product to you;
  2. permanently unavailable,MERSAT ELECTRONICS will notify you and, unless you agree to accept another product instead, MERSAT ELECTRONICS will issue a refund in respect of that product to you.

Non-defective products (your right to return)

  1. You are entitled to return any purchase concluded on MERSAT ELECTRONICS Online Shop within 14 days of the product(s) being delivered. In order to obtain a purchase price refund, the product(s) being returned must be returned to one of the specified warehouses stipulated by Mersat in accordance with the return procedure set out in clause 7 below.
  2. Consequently, if upon receiving your purchase you are not satisfied with your choice of product(s) and wish to return it for a refund as aforesaid, please retain the product(s)’ original packaging and do not use the product.
  3. If the incorrect product is delivered to you by mistake (i.e. it is not the product you purchased), please do not remove the product from its original packaging or try the product on at all. Please promptly contact MERSAT ELECTRONICS on the email info@mersat.co.za to notify MERSAT ELECTRONICS thereof, so that we can resolve the mistake by arranging to collect such product from you and deliver the correct product to you as quickly as possible.

Defective Products

General Warranty:

If, within 6 months after delivery of a product to you:

You find that the product is defective/faulty, unsuitable for the purpose generally intended (or otherwise expressly indicated by MERSAT ELECTRONICS at time of purchase), or not legal or reasonably durable (based on the circumstances and product type) (“defective”); and – you arrange to return such product to a specified warehouse stipulated by MERSAT ELECTRONICS for inspection in accordance with the returns procedure in clause 7 below, and the product is subsequently found to indeed be defective, you are entitled to either –

(a) be fully refunded, or (b) have the product repaired or replaced at MERSAT ELECTRONICS expense

If the product is found NOT to be defective, you will NOT be entitled to any repair, replacement or refund but will instead be liable for the costs incurred in having such product returned to a specified warehouse stipulated by MERSAT ELECTRONICS and then redelivered to you.

When is a product defective? Please note: the following are examples of things which will NOT be regarded as defects and will NOT entitle you to any repair, replacement or refund under the general warranty above: faults resulting from normal wear and tear; damage arising from incorrect usage of the product.

Supplier’s warranty:

Certain products may come with a supplier’s guarantee. If so, this will be stated in the product listing on the site. Clear details of these guarantees are given in their listings and no shopper may ask to be covered by a wider-ranging guarantee other than the one shown on such product listing.

Exclusions

You may not under any circumstances return the following:

  1. Products that you or any other person has altered, repaired, incorporated or added to where such alteration, repair, incorporation or addition has not been authorised by MERSAT ELECTRONICS.

Return procedure to be followed

Pack item into box

Pack the item(s) in their original packaging into a box to protect the items you are returning to a specified warehouse stipulated by MERSAT ELECTRONICS.

Refund

You will be refunded on return of the item and you will be refunded back in the form of an Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) payment. Unless you specified that you want an exchange.

  1. Processing of credits and refunds

Should you be entitled to a refund for any reason, such refund shall be effected through Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT), having been cleared by the warehouse & MERSAT ELECTRONICS quality checking.

If you bought a sale item and want to return the item, the reduced price will be paid back to you and not the full price.

If you want to return an item that you paid the full amount for but is now on sale the amount of the reduced price will be paid back.

  1. Fraud Prevention

MERSAT ELECTRONICS reserves the right to refuse, in the interest of fraud prevention, processing any payment for any order, and/or to cancel any purchase partially or completely, with notice given to you. MERSAT ELECTRONICS will be responsible for returning funds for the cancelled portion of the order to you only if you have already paid such funds.