My first problem w/ ebay came up... needs your advices

-----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chad Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:57 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: My first problem w/ ebay came up... needs your advices Lawrence Walker wrote: Thats how we know where you live. Cost might not vary as much with International shipping, by zip code, but I would think that a zip from Vancouver would cost more than a zip from Toronto, for me. This only really irritates me when I get the package and it is packed badly. I bought an Apple //gs from a guy on Ebay that sort of did that to me. He was a big seller, that already had the box packed before the auction started, I guess. I didn't need the 5.25" floppy drive, becasue I already had one. I told him that he could keep it, so I wouldn't have to pay as much in shipping.... mind you I didn't ask to pay less than the final bid price... just a smaller shipping cost to reflect the weight of the drive that he got to keep. He wanted to charge me something like $40 an hour to repack the box!! I figured well, he must do a really good job packing everything just so. I told him, forget it, just send it as is. I recived a huge box packed loosely, with all items just tossed in with peanuts!!!! I was so mad. It couldn't have taken him any time at all to pack the box, nothing was really protected, he didn't even do anything to prevent penuts from getting into the floppy drives! On top of that the computer was very abused. For some reason, I didn't leave negative feedback, I can't remember why, Though. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA