Missus picked up a couple of wheels I've had built up onto some old Hope hubs. I'd picked some Mavic A319 (it's a 29er frame) as some cheap rims for use this winter for commute/general knocking around.
They've come back with A719 rims on. Yes, a better rim, but £30 more expensive. And the cheek to charge me a couple of quid for plastic rim tape too! And being ultra picky the stickers on the rims are not on same sides!
Just been onto the wheel builder. He says it was hard to get hold of A319 rims at moment so he used 719s instead. And yes, I can't disagree with him that they are better/stronger rims.
Kinda left it, not sure what to do now.
If I'd have known he was using more expensive rims I'd have probably tried to get some disk specific TN719 rims instead.
Am I just being a saddo/spitting dummy out to roll back into the shop, demand they swap the rims over (assuming I can actually get TN719s anyway…).
In the end of the day it's only £30 extra (90p a spoke was a bit of a shock too!!!), the compromise with the cheap rim was it had a braking surface I could live with, paying the extra meant I probably would have just plumped for what I've got on my other wheels (ie the TN719s).
Discuss.