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Congrats on being the proud owner of the Filey 6. We brought a second hand one (never used) for £300. We used it for our summer holiday and was over the moon with it...loads of space even with 3 children! We brought the vestibule which was invaluable with bad weather for most of our hols.

Hope you have many happy holidays in your new tent  

This really is a great price, but the seller insists that any faults (other than the colour smudge / transfer) will have to be reported within 7 days. 

The chances of me getting a dry day in the next week to pitch the tent and check for faults are pretty bleak.  We both work Mon-Fri (and daylight hours diminishing)

Does anyone know if the seller can insist on this 7 day rule under Distance Selling Regulations and other Office of Fair Trading rules??

In an ideal world I'd love to snap one one of these up now and pitch it next season, but I suppose that's asking a bit too much to return it 6 months later if it turns out faulty.

Hi

If you are getting it from these people - great-outdoors*123 the small print on ebay says 14 days return for any reason (subject to a possible 10% charge - although if there were faults I would have hoped for some latitude here). If you've asked them for terms and they've said 7 days, you could get back to them and explain that you would like to use their 14 day terms.

I would always check out a tent as soon as you get it anyway ... but 14 days would give you a weekend or 2. If its wet, you'll just have to dry the tent and yourselves out afterwards, but at least you'll know its OK.

Helen