The Collector

I got this message this morning. This chick has 1353 feedback already. She does know that buyers can only receive positives, so it doesn't really mean anything, right?

On August 31 I purchased a doll from you. She is gorgeous and I am very satisfied but could you please leave fb for me. I would really appreciate it. Thank you,-------

For the love of God why do you give a shit if I leave you feedback? I leave it in batches, about once a month because I find it bothersome, really...you'll get your feedback when everyone else does, Miss Special.

Fed Up

I have never had so many shipping problems as I have had in the past two years...from 1999 to 2013 I had a glass bowl from a Sunbeam mixer break in about 2000/2001 and the plastic case to a sewing machine break in 2012.

In the past two years the PO and FedEx have managed to bust:

A planter
Parts of two sets of dishes
A wooden sewing machine case
A Clock
A Chandelier
A Limoges plate
There's more but I cannot remember offhand.

The latest 2 transgressions have me boiling in hot oil because I have $900 worth of bills due, I just sold $400 worth of shit, but I have had to refund $200 of it because of the way SOMEONE ELSE handled my stuff! 

Not to mention that I had to wait around two weeks for this last asshole to supposedly "come home"  from somewhere to open the item.

The damned chandelier was delivered on the 24th, but he opened it YESTERDAY. OF COURSE it was broken. I was waiting for this one to come down the pike anyway because of the repeated "Honorable seller" feedback he kept giving...it seems he has an inordinate amount of things happen that wind up needing the seller to be "honorable"...I.E. forking out cash to fix something.

He seems all zen about it, don't worry, I will bring it down if they need me to make the claim on it, I inform him that I have filed a case, and that it would take 5-7 days to resolve, he seems okay with it, and today I suddenly get this:

Understand you went to Fed Ex, and I will keep everything until you or they inform me to
bring it in for inspection, But at this time I feel I should be reimbursed,
Not trying to give you a hard time, bur I only have so much time to protect myself through
EBAY. Just trying to cover all the bases,

Yeah...you had me on ice two weeks while you farted around, but yet now that something has gone wrong, you want your money right fuckin' now, because you "only have so much time" - You have 45 days to make a claim through ebay, and 6 fuckin' months via paypal! It's not my fault you wasted 13 days!

So...now I have to drive to my bank 11 miles away (they closed the branch near my house) and make a deposit so that I can have enough, and then dump my entire bank balance into his paypal account because he went from zen to I don't want to wait 5 more days in the space of a couple of hours.

Thanks for ruining my weekend Colonel Sanders.

Deadbeat Week!

I guess I am ushering in the great month of October by celebrating "Deadbeat Bidder Week" I had a lady buy some dishes, she actually paid, so today is the great pack off - 50+ pieces of glass dishes...fun.

The other two bidders, well, they haven't been heard from since they won...Sorry Caliber, guess you can tack that $300 onto what I already owe you. I had to scramble and move my car insurance payment from the third to the ninth so that I could have breathing room this week.

Also, the fucking chandelier is still in limbo. I have no idea if the guy even unpacked it yet. I am pretty sure that if/when these two other bidders pay, he will suddenly come out of the woodwork with a "problem".