Friday, November 30, 2007

Ugh, it's a wonder some people know how to breathe

Couple days ago, I ordered an item off of half.com, an ebay affiliate. The seller of the item then contacted me a couple hours later telling me they no longer owned the item and would refund my money, having it credited to my card within 2 days. Fine I say, it's inconvenient but I'll live with it. For 3 days nothing happened in my bank account, then tonight, the transaction vanished, but I wasn't credited with any of my money back. So now I'm out the money AND they didn't send me the item. So I paid 20 bucks for nothing. Needless to say, I contacted half.com via ebay's contact page and am currently waiting on a response.

If this cannot be solved via the official channels, I am going to send the seller an email demanding rectification of this issue. I mean really, stuff like this just eats me away inside. How can you be dumb enough to leave an item up for sale when YOU DON'T EVEN OWN IT ANYMORE? This is so ridiculous that I don't really know who to be more mad at, the seller for being incompetent, or ebay for having a refund system that doesn't even work. Sometimes I consider just giving up buying shit online. Last year, I had a massive ebay dispute when this guy tried to stiff me on a rather big purchase. Luckily, he turned out to be a scam artist and ebay refunded all his buyers but DAMNIT. Is the juggernaut gonna have to smash somethin?

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