{"id":212,"date":"2008-04-04T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/blowing-off-steam\/ebay-follies\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:59:12","slug":"ebay-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"eBay follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what?  I&#8217;m pissed.<\/p>\n<p>On February 22, I had the winning bid on a 5th gen iPod that was described as &#8220;cosmetically in mint condition.&#8221;  The seller <small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/nirbhao\/\" title=\"nirbhao\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/small>wanted an exorbitant amount for shipping, but I lowered my bid to take that into account and I won.<\/p>\n<p>When the iPod arrived, it was anything but mint.  It had obviously been opened, and not gently, had Best Buy stickers on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10389914@N05\/2298743501\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2261\/2298743501_5741b28e48_m.jpg\" alt=\"broken iPod\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/a>back, and was scratched and worn.  And the worst part?  The high-priced shipping amounted to dropping it loose into a thinly padded mailer and leaving it to the tender mercies of the post office.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the iPod that had been partially functional when it was put up for sale, was totally dead when it arrived.<\/p>\n<p>I emailed the seller immediately.  Told him I wanted my money back.  Told him I wanted to return the iPod.  No answer.   I waited a week for him to reply and then I filed a complaint with eBay and PayPal.  And then I waited some more.  It was nearly two weeks later when PayPal told me they&#8217;d decided in my favor and gave me my money back.<\/p>\n<p>In all that time, I heard nothing from the seller.  I waited another week, and then I put the iPod up for sale, with an honest description and honest shipping charges.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the seller emailed me and asked when he was going to get his iPod back.  I told him that he had waited too long ot ask that question and I considered the iPod to be mine.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he said he&#8217;d given me my money back and he wanted the iPod back.  I repeated that he&#8217;d had plenty of time to speak up before now and he hadn&#8217;t, and asked him why he wanted a dead iPod back if not to put it up for sale again with another bogus description?<\/p>\n<p>I guess now I wait to see what happens next.<\/p>\n<p><small><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo_dropper\/images\/cc.gif\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" border=\"0\" \/> photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/nirbhao\/\" title=\"nirbhao\" target=\"_blank\">nirbhao<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what? I&#8217;m pissed. On February 22, I had the winning bid on a 5th gen iPod that was described as &#8220;cosmetically in mint condition.&#8221; The seller wanted an exorbitant amount for shipping, but I lowered my bid to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}