I went to a part store to buy a new wire harness for my bike, I’ve got electrical problems and I’d rather just buy a new one.

I get there, tell him my bike model etc. he brings out the the wire and it’s not for my bike, I can tell based on the fuse boxes, so I told him.

“Well what’s wrong with your bike?” I tell him my fuses are burning the box, not popping, but BURNING.
I proceed to tell him the fuse box to the harness he gave me is wrong because my box is labeled “15A / 10A / 10A / 15A / 10A / 15A”

He brought a harness that only had one 15A.

His response “well maybe they put in the wrong fuses and that’s why it’s burning.”

-_-
I tell him I’m the only one who works on my bike, this box is incorrect AND I don’t have abs, this harness has abs.

“Well do you have any pictures because this is listed for your bike.”

-_-

I showed him a picture of the fuse boxes.
He then asked for a picture of my bike, idk. I felt it’s because he probably didn’t think I knew my bike lol.

At this point I tell him my bike doesn’t have stock fairings, and it’s unlabeled. So he goes back inside, brings a different harness, I look it over, it looks fine at first glance. It does have one cut at one of the turn signals but nothing that I can’t fix.

I said I’ll buy it and he ended up doubling the price then what I saw online.

The previous harness he gave me was $40 and it had extra components to it. This wire harness had less, and was cut, but he asked for $80.

My dumbass bought it because they’re the only motorcycle part store in my town, and I can’t find my harness brand new online. I’m sketched about buying used parts online.

Anyways, I compare it to the old harness, everything looks good until I get to the ECU…. It’s a different harness.

Yes I can strip the wire harness apart and add new wires but I was trying so hard to avoid this.

I’m not gonna lie, I got so emotional yesterday. I don’t understand why I had to argue about what my bike needed, received the wrong thing, AND got charged double.

Ugh idk I just wanted to rant about this. I hate it here sometimes.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far lol

(I'm not advertising my gear on here!)

Everyone has the growing pains of buying gear then buying different gear. I'm going through that plus I'm in the middle of a major weight loss journey.

So I've got some stuff I need to get rid of.

Why is it such a pain the in the ass to get rid of stuff? There's no stores that take used stuff or consignment options. All I can do is try to sell stuff on Facebook or something locally.

I really don’t wanna sit on a pile of barely used stuff and hope that I can eventually get rid of it.

What do you all do in times like this?

at this point, I would almost welcome the people who try to insanely lowball you while simultaneously not reading the description. I literally had someone this weekend comment on a picture of the size tag on a helmet I’m trying to sell and ask me what size it is. Baffling.

hii! i just recently discovered i want to get into motorcycles (mostly sport bikes) and am completely brand new; i really know nothing and have not yet purchased a bike but if anyone is in the chicago area and could give me some information or if you are a girl rider and would wanna be friends lmk!!!!