7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
5:06 a.m.
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, William Maddox wrote:
I have been screwed in the past a time or two by
taking a line of
excuses from a seller until the eBay/Paypal clock ran out. These were
situations where the seller had been paid both for the goods and
shipping, and had simply failed to ship as promised.
Similar situation here with the purchase of a mint Xerox 820-II system.
Despite numerous pleas on my part it was apparently packed by trained
chimps and arrived smashed to shards. The seller kept promising me a
refund if I avoided opening a dispute - I got busy with Real Life in the
meantime and he succeeded in running out the clock, closing his eBay
account and disappearing while I was distracted.
Last time I play Mr. Nice Guy.
(Happy ending: I laboriously glued the case back together, straightened
out bent frames, replaced chips torn (!) from their sockets, etc. The
bugger ultimately worked. Figure $5-600 of my time to rebuild a $100 unit
that shouldn't have required rework in the first place.)
These days, regardless of what they say, I open a case
with eBay if I
don't have the stuff in my hands after a reasonable allowance for
shipping delay.
Amen.
Steve
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