[cctalk] Re: Store with "vintage" computers and parts

At this point I will chime in. I brought what looked like an Imsai keyboard from this crowd, or a previous version of them - The web site is *amazingly* similar. The keyboards were cheap as chips, $149, so I went for it, knowing that I was protected by PayPal. I get tracking details pretty quickly, set as awaiting shipment, I also got a weird - non professional email saying that they had sent the item. After a week, still no movement on the tracking item - I queried them and got yet another number. Still awaiting shipment. Another couple of weeks - no movement, no keyboard delivered, and no response from their customer service, so I contacted Paypal and raised a case. At this point, I am screenshotting everything for evidence. Paypal was great - they contacted the seller, who said that the item was shipped. Another new tracking number. After another couple of weeks, I contacted Paypal again - they contacted the shop - the shop provided 'evidence' that the item had been delivered to Sydney (350km away) - Paypal asked me if I had it - I live in Canberra, and of course I hadn't got it. They clearly went to the trouble of trawling through USPS tracking details to find something that was shipped from near their suburb to Sydney Australia by somebody else and submitted it as their evidence they had shipped. I went ballistic with paypal, and got a refund. 100% would not recommend. The only shops that pop up in a town selling impossible vintage bargains are in the Twilight Zone, and have the word Emporium in their name. Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em: doug(a)doughq.com ph: 0414 986878 Check out my awesome clocks at www.dougswordclocks.com Follow my amateur radio adventures at vk1zdj.net On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 09:13, Adrian Godwin via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: