I am probably in the wrong here...
Well first of all, I should probably LJ cut my entries more often...sorry 'bout that.
Second of all...So I sold my college books from last year on Amazon (I think EVERYone should do this) and right now I'm sorta in this fight with someone I sold a book to. I'm going to just give the short story. She bought the book January 16th, which was a Friday. As MY responsibility, I'm supposed to send it out within two business days. So that would be Tuesday the 20th. There was a holiday Monday, so I wasn't able to send it then. Well I actually didn't get it to the post office until Thursday the 22nd. It was a pretty busy week with school and work. It was hard to get to the post office any day sooner. So the gal that bought the book asked me when it was going to get there and when I sent it and all that...and something about how unacceptable it was to her and that she needed the book and etc...now what I did that was probably not the most ethical thing to do was that I lied. I didn't think that my real reason would sound like a GOOD reason, even though I think the reason is ligit, not everyone, even another college student might understand. Anyways, I apologized to her about the inconvenience about all of it and that I just got back from vacation and sent the book out as soon as I saw that she bought it. I know, I know, I shouldn't have lied like that. But she came off sorta bitchy and I just can't STAND it when people just JUMP to conclusions that I was probably just lazy or something. You know? So anyways, I got another e-mail from her today asking for the tracking number and what method of shipping I used. And that if I didn't get back to her by tomorrow morning that she was going to report me to Amazon. She then, again, told me just how unacceptable this is.
Okay, so now I'm getting sorta annoyed and upset a little. I don't know if I'm taking this out of proportion or if I'm being too dramatic, if you will, about this. I wrote her kind of a lengthy message about how there are nicer ways to approach people rather than jumping down my throat about this. I mentioned, and I don't really like throwing the 'you don't know me' line, but I think this was a very valid situation where it was acceptable. I told her that she doesn't know anything about my life and doesn't know if I just lost someone close to me and was going through a hard time. she doesn't know if I got into an accident. nothing. This just shows how some people can be. They are selfish and only think about our needs. There could've been a million reasons why I couldn't send the book out right away. I also said that I already apologized for the inconvenience and what else am i supposed to do? I told her if she wants to report me to amazon, then fine, I still have eBay. Lol. Another thing that I mentioned was that if it was ME who was waiting for a book, I would just share with someone until it came. I'm sure the Professor would understand-its not like you just didn't want to buy the book. Its on its way.
SO yeah, it was probably wrong of me to not like really TRY and find time to get to the post office, but when you're working, dogsitting and going to school, its kind of hard...whatever...I'm interested to see what she writes back.
Second of all...So I sold my college books from last year on Amazon (I think EVERYone should do this) and right now I'm sorta in this fight with someone I sold a book to. I'm going to just give the short story. She bought the book January 16th, which was a Friday. As MY responsibility, I'm supposed to send it out within two business days. So that would be Tuesday the 20th. There was a holiday Monday, so I wasn't able to send it then. Well I actually didn't get it to the post office until Thursday the 22nd. It was a pretty busy week with school and work. It was hard to get to the post office any day sooner. So the gal that bought the book asked me when it was going to get there and when I sent it and all that...and something about how unacceptable it was to her and that she needed the book and etc...now what I did that was probably not the most ethical thing to do was that I lied. I didn't think that my real reason would sound like a GOOD reason, even though I think the reason is ligit, not everyone, even another college student might understand. Anyways, I apologized to her about the inconvenience about all of it and that I just got back from vacation and sent the book out as soon as I saw that she bought it. I know, I know, I shouldn't have lied like that. But she came off sorta bitchy and I just can't STAND it when people just JUMP to conclusions that I was probably just lazy or something. You know? So anyways, I got another e-mail from her today asking for the tracking number and what method of shipping I used. And that if I didn't get back to her by tomorrow morning that she was going to report me to Amazon. She then, again, told me just how unacceptable this is.
Okay, so now I'm getting sorta annoyed and upset a little. I don't know if I'm taking this out of proportion or if I'm being too dramatic, if you will, about this. I wrote her kind of a lengthy message about how there are nicer ways to approach people rather than jumping down my throat about this. I mentioned, and I don't really like throwing the 'you don't know me' line, but I think this was a very valid situation where it was acceptable. I told her that she doesn't know anything about my life and doesn't know if I just lost someone close to me and was going through a hard time. she doesn't know if I got into an accident. nothing. This just shows how some people can be. They are selfish and only think about our needs. There could've been a million reasons why I couldn't send the book out right away. I also said that I already apologized for the inconvenience and what else am i supposed to do? I told her if she wants to report me to amazon, then fine, I still have eBay. Lol. Another thing that I mentioned was that if it was ME who was waiting for a book, I would just share with someone until it came. I'm sure the Professor would understand-its not like you just didn't want to buy the book. Its on its way.
SO yeah, it was probably wrong of me to not like really TRY and find time to get to the post office, but when you're working, dogsitting and going to school, its kind of hard...whatever...I'm interested to see what she writes back.