obobskivich
Headphoneus Supremus
ok, so, I'm out of ideas here, and none of my friends (including one who runs a fledgling ebay business) have any ideas beyond what I've come up with and tried
here's basically the story:
I found something I wanted on ebay, an older Technics surround sound processor, I order it, the guy keeps screaming (in horrible broken english) that he won't ship to anything but a confirmed address, I inform him 3 or 4 times that I've moved and that address is no longer valid, he keeps yelling at me to pay and that he'll ship it to confirmed address
so I'm like, ok, whatever, we'll have the new people ship it ahead and it kind of sucks, I grumbled a little over the $25 shipping charge, but figured, ok, its kind of a big item, and its insured shipping, and I'm sure he's padded that figure a little anyways, but whatever
so, I get a call from the new tennant, that they got a slip for a package, I'd alerted them this was coming, they go to collect, this jack*** shipped it USPS MEDIA MAIL and there was a $21 charge waiting for them at the post office to collect the package (so now $46 in shipping)
they've mailed it ahead via fedex, it should arrive tomorrow (another $20), I already negative rep'd him on ebay, and opened a paypal case, his response was "I SHIP CONFIRM ADDRESS YOU FAIL UPDATE ME WITH NEW ADDRESS", so I escalated it, and paypal responds that the item showed shipped, and that they won't do anything about it as a result of that, so, aside from buying a plane ticket and getting a taxi to his return address (
), is there really anything I can do aside from just slander his name all over the internet?
I'm strongly considering calling Visa tomorrow morning and saying my CC was stolen again, and to hotcard it, it'll drop the charge and I know for a fact PayPal will be FURIOUS (i've heard they'll go as far as trying to sue people to get their money), however this seems like the only way to get anyone's attention in this situation, or should I just take it up the ass and accept that I've essentially paid $60 to ship something that only costs $19 to ship?
here's basically the story:
I found something I wanted on ebay, an older Technics surround sound processor, I order it, the guy keeps screaming (in horrible broken english) that he won't ship to anything but a confirmed address, I inform him 3 or 4 times that I've moved and that address is no longer valid, he keeps yelling at me to pay and that he'll ship it to confirmed address
so I'm like, ok, whatever, we'll have the new people ship it ahead and it kind of sucks, I grumbled a little over the $25 shipping charge, but figured, ok, its kind of a big item, and its insured shipping, and I'm sure he's padded that figure a little anyways, but whatever
so, I get a call from the new tennant, that they got a slip for a package, I'd alerted them this was coming, they go to collect, this jack*** shipped it USPS MEDIA MAIL and there was a $21 charge waiting for them at the post office to collect the package (so now $46 in shipping)
they've mailed it ahead via fedex, it should arrive tomorrow (another $20), I already negative rep'd him on ebay, and opened a paypal case, his response was "I SHIP CONFIRM ADDRESS YOU FAIL UPDATE ME WITH NEW ADDRESS", so I escalated it, and paypal responds that the item showed shipped, and that they won't do anything about it as a result of that, so, aside from buying a plane ticket and getting a taxi to his return address (
I'm strongly considering calling Visa tomorrow morning and saying my CC was stolen again, and to hotcard it, it'll drop the charge and I know for a fact PayPal will be FURIOUS (i've heard they'll go as far as trying to sue people to get their money), however this seems like the only way to get anyone's attention in this situation, or should I just take it up the ass and accept that I've essentially paid $60 to ship something that only costs $19 to ship?