Monday, April 9, 2012

Yeah...

So scratch that last entry. As many may not know, I have been doing eBay stuff for the past 5 years. Recently, I was in an "item not received" case. Well long story short, (1 month ago) the guy paid me, I shipped it out the same day, I thought all was peachy. I get a message from him 3 days ago pretty much telling me "where is it? You're the seller, fix this now." ...Ok? And they didn't think to contact me earlier because....? Anyway, I escalated it into a decision from eBay support. I had evidence that I shipped the item out and all he had was his word saying that he hadn't received it. And well, they decided to go with his word. So they try to refund him $209.46. Funny thing... I don't have it. So my Paypal account is in the negative because of this. I call eBay to try and work it out, I call the post office and customs to see if they can help me. No help whatsoever. Ebay tells me I need proof that it arrived in the destination country. The post office or customs won't tell me if it did or not.
Fast forward to 4.5 hours ago. I'm like "Ok, nobody's going to help me solve this? FUCK YA'LL THEN!" Because as an unemployed college student, $210 isn't chump change. So I drive to my bank, tell them that I want to cancel all future transactions, withdrawing or depositing, from paypal to my bank account. So that's done. They can't touch my bank account. The lady at the bank totally understood my situation and tells me I should also cancel my card. So I get home and cancel my card. That's done - card is bad and I'm getting a new one soon. The bank lady also told me I need to email Paypal and let them know that they're not authorized to access any of my accounts. That's done (in a quite professional way, given the circumstances.)
So now I'm done with eBay. And *hopefully* won't hear any more grief about this whole ordeal. I told the buyer to call his post office and customs office (doubt he will) and to let me know if he receives it in the meantime.
What a great day.
(picture completely irrelevant, I just want to be back)

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