Home Improvement / eBay Morons
So my brother made it home safe and sound Thursday night with his cat in tow. Ryan had like no time to relax though as I started a small home improvement project with one of his friends, Larry, who is a carpenter-in-training, which kinda forced him to help out. We were going to build a box for the projector we bought that would mount in the wall above the desk in the new theater room. It began with the box but the projects blossomed into doing the hard-wood floor installation in the family room downstairs. All the furniture had to be moved out and then the carpet had to be ripped out and then we had to move a heat register, lay new plywood down to bring the floor up to level, and then piece by piece lay in the hard wood flooring. That room didn't take too long. So that's what I've been up to pretty much since Thursday night. Now we're concentrating up here in the family room, trying to repaint the walls and finish some new electrical projects in there. It'll be wild when it's all done, but I think I may be so busy helping out over the next few days that I'll have less and less chance to keep up with my friends.
Lastly this morning, I need to vent about stupid people. A week ago, someone on the east coast won my auction for my trusty old 2.0 megapixel digital camera which had been my work horse camera for several years. They paid using PayPal and when PayPal sent me the money in an email, they sent me their confirmed shipping address. The next day, I gleefully bounced to the post office and shipped it off to the confirmed address.
Fast forward to now. The buyer claims not to have gotten the item. I shipped that thing priority so it had to have been delivered. I checked the tracking number and it said it arrived last Wednesday or something. I sent them an email saying that it indeed had arrived somewhere and I also included the address I mailed it to. My hope would be that they had given me the address of a relative and would just call up the person, get the package from them, and everything would be fine.
I get this email this morning- "...unfortunately we no longer live at that address and have not for over a year now. I really wish someone would have contacted me... I have bought several other things this holiday season and I have recieved them with no problem... If it can not be recovered we will have to go from there." O_O
Morons. I can't tell you how frustrated idiots like this make me. You've moved, haven't changed your address with PayPal, and expect me to do the leg work of confirming addresses? That's not my problem! I'm sorry, but it's not my fault that you gave me the wrong address. The email went on to say that the apartment it was delivered to is vacant. How can it be vacant if it was accepted at point of delivery? I'm also a little worried that this may bite me in the ass. eBay did give me a second address when the auction closed, and that one appears to be correct. But, I used the PayPal one because it seemed logical to use a CONFIRMED address. I'm worried that somehow I'm in the wrong (even though the buyer gave me a bad address) and eBay or something will force me to refund the guy which means I'm out my beloved camera AND $50.
Moral of today's story? if you shop online, please make sure you're giving the seller your correct and current address. The holidays are so much nicer that way.
Lastly this morning, I need to vent about stupid people. A week ago, someone on the east coast won my auction for my trusty old 2.0 megapixel digital camera which had been my work horse camera for several years. They paid using PayPal and when PayPal sent me the money in an email, they sent me their confirmed shipping address. The next day, I gleefully bounced to the post office and shipped it off to the confirmed address.
Fast forward to now. The buyer claims not to have gotten the item. I shipped that thing priority so it had to have been delivered. I checked the tracking number and it said it arrived last Wednesday or something. I sent them an email saying that it indeed had arrived somewhere and I also included the address I mailed it to. My hope would be that they had given me the address of a relative and would just call up the person, get the package from them, and everything would be fine.
I get this email this morning- "...unfortunately we no longer live at that address and have not for over a year now. I really wish someone would have contacted me... I have bought several other things this holiday season and I have recieved them with no problem... If it can not be recovered we will have to go from there." O_O
Morons. I can't tell you how frustrated idiots like this make me. You've moved, haven't changed your address with PayPal, and expect me to do the leg work of confirming addresses? That's not my problem! I'm sorry, but it's not my fault that you gave me the wrong address. The email went on to say that the apartment it was delivered to is vacant. How can it be vacant if it was accepted at point of delivery? I'm also a little worried that this may bite me in the ass. eBay did give me a second address when the auction closed, and that one appears to be correct. But, I used the PayPal one because it seemed logical to use a CONFIRMED address. I'm worried that somehow I'm in the wrong (even though the buyer gave me a bad address) and eBay or something will force me to refund the guy which means I'm out my beloved camera AND $50.
Moral of today's story? if you shop online, please make sure you're giving the seller your correct and current address. The holidays are so much nicer that way.