the people on ebay have their heads up their asses. this is an article about my one and only ebay buying experience. i must say its been rather rocky, and at the moment i am still out of 40 some odd bucks.

i made my ebay account well over a year ago at my old apartment. i moved, and updated my address and s*** on ebay. at least i thought i did, somewhere in the mayhem of changing it, it left my old address as my primary one.

so i buy this leather trench coat. yeah, a leather trench coat, right as its going into summer here in az. you might ask "wtf why?" and i will say "psh, its me" and you will understand.

thats beside the point, anyway i got the coat for 40 some bucks with shipping and handling (coat its self was like 27 - and worth every penny). the seller who is, as far as i can tell, from ohio, contacted a shipper down in texas to ship the coat to me. i learned that from the ups tracking information.

anyway on the 4th (a friday) the seller said the coat was shipped... so i waited... and waited... then through the weekends, up until tuesday of the next week (the 8th) because A: i had no tracking number for the package at the time and B: it was taking way too f***ing long to get here. so i checked the email confirmation from the seller, which i found had my old address listed as the ship to address (BUTTf***!). i contacted the seller on ebay and let them know of the issue... f*** it ill post my original messages:

i hate to be a dick, but i just rechecked my confirmation email and saw that the coat was shipped to my old address... for some reason when i updated it here on ebay it kept my old one as my primary. i remember changing it though.

anyway can you have your supplier reship it or give me a refund? again im sorry for all the trouble! =(

then i get this smart assed f***ing response the next day (9th):

Where are your manners young man... It is not my fault that your information was incorrect. The data you supply is where the item is shipped. I reccomend you read the rules on ebay and understand when you purchase an item it is like signing a contract. No refund is due and no coat will be reshipped.

honestly, i cant make that s*** up^

so im f***ing pissed off about that and the fact that i dont have a ups tracking number so i dont know where the package is, if its been delivered or not. i was pretty busy the 10th (thursday) and didnt get home soon enough to make any calls that would amount to anything - i DID call my old complex but no one picked up - so i tried to put it out of my head and did my nightly routine of not eating and playing world of warcraft.

the 11th (friday - one week after package has been shipped confirmation) i called my old apartment complex again that night. someone picks up and i go "yeah i think you have a package for me, but i dont live at the address anymore" i tell them the apartment number and they go check, it wasnt in the back room so they say they will check the list of deliveries. low and behold it was on the list as being delivered! however they had sent it back yesterday, on thursday, and said that i would not be able to come pick it up. i bit my tongue and said ok thanks and hung up. how the f*** was i supposed to know it was even delivered? so i looked up the nearest ups store asap as it was getting close to 5:30 and some asian lady picked up and i go "hi i need to find out where a package is, but i dont have the tracking number... can you still find it for me?" she goes "oh so sorry sir you need dah tracking numba for me to help you sorry" and then we hung up. so i get back on ebay and message the seller:

did you get a tracking number from ups for the coat? i can redirect it to my current address if you can give that to me.

i contacted ebay support about the whole f***ing thing and they said that since the seller used paypal i could open a claim with them and get my money back through buyer protection. BUT i had to wait 10 days after the money transfer had taken place (the 2nd) and i had to wait until the 12th to open the claim. then i get a message back from the seller on the 12th (saturday):

PHOENIX,
AZ, US 04/11/2008 8:04 P.M. THE RECEIVER HAS MOVED. UPS ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE RECEIVER TO COMPLETE DELIVERY, NO DELIVERY WAS MADE / THE ADDRESS HAS BEEN CORRECTED. THE DELIVERY HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED
04/11/2008 3:19 P.M. THE RECEIVER HAS MOVED. UPS ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE RECEIVER TO COMPLETE DELIVERY, NO DELIVERY WAS MADE
Tracking Number: lolz there was a tracking number here but its gone now!
Type: Package
Status: In Transit
Rescheduled Delivery: 04/14/2008
New Delivery Address: GLENDALE, AZ, US
Shipped/Billed On: 04/04/2008
Service: GROUND
Weight: 5.80 Lbs

a tracking number! see it!? yeah i know, i worded it out for "legal" reasons. but what is this?  "New Delivery Address: GLENDALE, AZ, US" ? i have never ever lived in glendale, nor had i made any mention to the seller about the city. about this time im majorly pissed about this c*** that wont get up and f***in do something about it, probably spent my 40 some bucks on something stupid, and the fact that i still dont have my god damned discount trench coat. is there some big warehouse of lost and found ups packages in glendale? if so then this wouldnt be a problem other than spending 20 bucks in gas to get over there and back.

anyway now that i had the tracking number i figured i would call ups again and see if i could sort this s*** out. i called and the lady on the phone said the system was down! what the hell? and that i needed to call back during normal business hours. thats f***in jacked s*** right there.

unfortunately when i went onto the ups site to change the destination address, i needed the origin address as well which was some place in texas and what i saw of it was limited to "TEXAS, US" and i couldnt change it on the site. i called ups to set the new delivery address but they said it was scanned as delivered and i couldnt do anything about it.

sunday was a dead day so i got nothing accomplished then.

i waited all of monday (the 14th) to see if maybe something miraculous had happened and the mystery address in glendale had turned out to be my address here in phoenix. i called the office here at my complex and they said they didnt have any packages for me, but the ups guy had dropped off a package he was confused about (!), but that one also wasnt for me. major f***ing fail.

the 15th (tuesday) came along and i opened the claim with paypal to get my money back because i was done f***ing around with the whole thing. i put this as the opening claim line for the seller to see:

i still dont have my coat =( after ups said it was delivered to the wrong address, it was reshipped to somewhere in glendale (?) and they wont do anything about it now because it was scanned as delivered and is considered a completed transaction. thats what the lady on the phone said when i called to check on it anyway. i need to l2ebay or just stick to amazon... p.s. i dont have an address or phone number of where it is in glendale so i have no way of even finding out where it is or how to go get it. =/

then today (wednesday the 16th) i see a message back saying this:

I received this email on 4-8 PM from buyer: i hate to be a dick, but i just rechecked my confirmation email and saw that the coat was shipped to my old address... for some reason when i updated it here on ebay it kept my old one as my primary. i remember changing it though. anyway can you have your supplier reship it or give me a refund? again im sorry for all the trouble! =( - thisiswheremyebayusernamewasbutiediteditoutlolz I found this mail to be very rude and I let him know about it. It is not my fault that he did not have his address right - that is not my responsiblity. Package was shipped from my supplier on 4-4 so so he was already late in telling me abot his address. UPS Info: PHOENIX, AZ, US 04/14/2008 3:56 P.M. DELIVERY 04/14/2008 3:35 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY PHOENIX, AZ, US 04/11/2008 8:04 P.M. THE RECEIVER HAS MOVED. UPS ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE RECEIVER TO COMPLETE DELIVERY, NO DELIVERY WAS MADE / THE ADDRESS HAS BEEN CORRECTED. THE DELIVERY HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED 04/11/2008 3:19 P.M. THE RECEIVER HAS MOVED. UPS ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE RECEIVER TO COMPLETE DELIVERY, NO DELIVERY WAS MADE PHOENIX, AZ, US 04/09/2008 2:46 P.M. DELIVERY 04/09/2008 4:10 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY PHOENIX, AZ, US 04/08/2008 7:29 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN DALLAS, TX, US 04/04/2008 9:58 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN 04/04/2008 5:45 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN US 04/04/2008 6:02 P.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED Tracking results provided by UPS: 04/16/2008 8:32 A.M. ET This is in response to your request for delivery information concerning the shipment listed below. Tracking Number: lolzikilledthetrackingnumberagain! Service: 0 GROUND Weight: 0 5.80 Lbs Shipped/Billed On: 0 04/04/2008 Delivered On: 0 04/14/2008 3:56 P.M. Delivered To: 0 GLENDALE , AZ , US Location: 0 FD POST I do not know what to tell buyer at this time except it is his responsiblity to have all info correct on EBAY when buying. No feedback so I should not have sold to him.

theres a couple things WRONG with the person who sold me this coat. i was rude by announcing that i was being a dick asking for help to get the package to my real address? i think not. "No feedback so I should not have sold to him." WHAT THE f***!? so i should leave feedback when they have my money and i dont have what they sold to me? i figured i would be a nice guy and not leave feedback at all rather than leave negative feedback. so i just made this response and elevated the claim to paypals judges or whatever this morning:

i dont know what other information i could provide... ive been kept out of the loop on this whole thing other than trying to set it straight. the seller could have just submitted an address change to either ups or the shipper (then the shipper could have changed it), i tried to change it with ups but the first time i called they said their system was down and the second time they said the package was scanned as delivered and they couldnt help me. the seller has been very arrogant and greedy and i will not be using ebay to purchase any more items online. this was the first time i have ever bought from ebay. i set the account up at my old address but changed it recently and i guess it kept my old address as my primary address for some reason, so the package got shipped to my old one. i am not sure how much of it is my fault to begin with but i have done everything i could to get it sorted out, but now my package is in a different city that was never mentioned in any of the addresses given with no delivery address, phone number, or anything for me to begin to start looking for it. i just want my money back at this point. its been almost 2 weeks since the seller said the item was shipped. the package has reached two destinations as deliveries and neither one of them was my current address. i contacted the people at my previous address and they said they had sent the package back already.

so thats the whole ordeal. im f***ing pissed off about it, and it probably is my fault in the first place but what the f*** else am i supposed to do? ive tried to get it sorted out as best i could to no avail. then i just got this email from paypal saying they are looking into it so maybe they will see the situation for what it is and i will get my money back.

i hate ebay.

anyway that was just a vent, the real article is down here! =D

so im at walmart sunday, and in the line theres this rather lanky fellow that looks somewhat familiar. i couldnt even begin to tell you where ive seen him before but i think i hated him at one point. i know its a long shot but as far as im concerned i hated the kid on general grounds because he looked like someone i knew.

the end.