Sometimes I hate
Last week I posted my laptop on EBay for sale, because I don't really need a laptop anymore, and I do need money. Posting on EBay went smoothly as these things tend to do. Out of a sense of hope that I hoped wasn't in vain, I made the option a "Buy It Now" purchase of 800 bucks. Ideally, someone would look at my laptop, realize that they just couldn't live without such a fine piece of computing machinery, and snatch it up into their greedy hands, giving me some fast cash in the process. (Just to interject here a momement, I seem to have lost my ability to type, as I am having to correct more typos than I ever thought humanly possible. But that's beside the point.) Two days after I post the laptop, I receive an EMail from EBay that my item was purchased on EBay. Awesome!
Immediatly I looked at the EMail that the buyer had sent me. First thing I noticed was they couldn't use English for shit. In fact, the grammer of the EMail was sort of like... the type of grammer used by those Nigerian scammers that are always sending you EMail to "send them your bank account number and name and soc and they will send you 20% of 100 million dollars that some dead prince/oil/gold tycoon/whatever left" And of course, what does the EMail say? I'll tell you what the EMail said, dear reader. The EMail basically said: (I won't go through the hassle of cutting and pasting) I am from the US, but am living in England, am buying for my sister in Nigeria, so why don't you ship the laptop over there, and let's worry about how you get your money later. Yeah, right.
I contacted EBay immediatly about the obvoius scam, and got an automated EMail from them that a REAL LIVE person from EBay would get in touch with me within 48 hours. Subsequently, the scammer's email account was cancelled (assumingly by EBay). Awesome.
Actually, not quite. EBay has yet to get back to me. How conveneint for them. More conveniently for them, they are charging me 90 bucks in auction fees for the "successful" completion of the auction! Uh... WHAT?
People, EBay sucks nuts. They don't give two shits about anyone, I've heard the horror stories before but up to this point have avoided getting burned. I guess it's my time. Fuck them, from now on, I'm Craigstlisting. Except to sell books, it sucks that the ONLY way to get close to your money's worth is to use Half.com. Those asshats.
Immediatly I looked at the EMail that the buyer had sent me. First thing I noticed was they couldn't use English for shit. In fact, the grammer of the EMail was sort of like... the type of grammer used by those Nigerian scammers that are always sending you EMail to "send them your bank account number and name and soc and they will send you 20% of 100 million dollars that some dead prince/oil/gold tycoon/whatever left" And of course, what does the EMail say? I'll tell you what the EMail said, dear reader. The EMail basically said: (I won't go through the hassle of cutting and pasting) I am from the US, but am living in England, am buying for my sister in Nigeria, so why don't you ship the laptop over there, and let's worry about how you get your money later. Yeah, right.
I contacted EBay immediatly about the obvoius scam, and got an automated EMail from them that a REAL LIVE person from EBay would get in touch with me within 48 hours. Subsequently, the scammer's email account was cancelled (assumingly by EBay). Awesome.
Actually, not quite. EBay has yet to get back to me. How conveneint for them. More conveniently for them, they are charging me 90 bucks in auction fees for the "successful" completion of the auction! Uh... WHAT?
People, EBay sucks nuts. They don't give two shits about anyone, I've heard the horror stories before but up to this point have avoided getting burned. I guess it's my time. Fuck them, from now on, I'm Craigstlisting. Except to sell books, it sucks that the ONLY way to get close to your money's worth is to use Half.com. Those asshats.