Serious Destashing, Part One
I acquired a LOT of BPAL in 2008 while down for the count due to back issues. I've not gotten to even try most of it, but it now needs to find new homes. I'm a graduate student with an unpaid internship, and the husband's job just went to half time. We're both looking for jobs now so we can pay our bills. My loss is your gain, as I have some
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And as you know, most of my true loves are extinct or worse, were never released. I mean I think there are like 3 bottles of Floating Brain proto (my #1) in existence - have YOU ever seen it around?
Also the extinct ones I covet appear to never have been popular because I just NEVER see them. Not be all 'my perfumes are harder to find than yours nananananana' but....have you ever seen Blood Orange or Tulip SN...anywhere? :(
Hey, I feel bad I can't swap you Spanked (though of course should you ever come across anything you know I would!), so offering to sell it to you at-cost if I can't ever swap it is the least I can do.
You're the gorgeous one, my dear! I'm still so thrilled by your paypal rant comment. It made my week, really. I even called those fuckers btw to ask if I could revert to the old email format or something - and of course they were utterly useless - and they just sent me a follow-up survey which I filled out BRUTALLY including long, long ranty commentary. I can share if you want to revel in the hatred with me (can you revel in hatred?). :P
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I have never seen the Floating Brain proto, nope. Nor a Blood Orange or Tulip SN. But you know I'm one of many who are always looking out for them for you. And don't feel bad about the Spanked - I've got a few 'rare' things that put me in a similar situation regarding swaps. Who knows, maybe one day we'll be able to make each others wishes come true.
Ok.. sorry to hijack your thread here Cortney, good luck with your sales :)
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My paypal rant:
The site is poorly designed (it's unintuitive, it's difficult or impossible to find, change and view information, etc) , has virtually no user-controlled options (for changing the way one receives emails, in particular), the site runs more slowly than any site I regularly use (i.e. pages often take so long to load - or simply time out completely - that I have to log in again, and btw, PP has the slowest login process I've ever encountered), the customer service personnel are usually useless (friendly, but they know nothing and are mostly powerless to respond to my needs) and the fees charged are exorbitant. PP impairs my efficiency and frustrates me to the point of tears on a daily basis and if there were another alternative online service available, I'd switch in a heartbeat. PP epitomises bad design, uninformed and impotent customer service, and capitalism gone wrong (i.e. huge corporations abusing their power and effective monopoly to rape their customers financially while neglecting the actual quality of the services they provided [I edited this to be less ranty in the actual submitted comment]).
I was told my issue could not be resolved and that there were no plans to resolve it. But really, I shouldn't have even had to call in. There should be an (obviously displayed) option (or set of options) determining the format of the 'payment received' emails that paypal sends out. As a client, I deserve that basic functionality and it's mind-blowing that such a simple feature ISN'T available. Why would I want 'service@paypal.com' as the return address instead of the email address of the actual buyer/payer?
I'm also offended and annoyed that the email format was changed without warning or consulting the actual users, to a much inferior format both visually and functionally. The new format creates much more work for me and I've spoken to dozens of other people who feel just as frustrated, upset, and stymied. People use paypal to increase their efficiency, but the new email format greatly decreases it!
And that is a very good point about the wrinkles! I hope all the laughing I do compensates a bit.
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