@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:
@4channel wrote:
One day I'll do a thread on some of the horrid experiences I have had on ebay. A couple have been almost surreal. I'll also include a couple about an associate of mine and how he had been on the recieving end of some very very nasty dishonesty.
please don't!
I'll save you some time . . .
. . . . rare, once in a lifetime, never played, never opened VHS tapes arrived damaged . . . . seller sent another set of the rare once in a lifetime tapes
. . . . . an associate won a turntable (?) from a UK seller for a good price . . . seller messages saying "I threw it out with the rubbish" . . . . you phone the garbage collection service IN THE UK and discover the seller lied about garbage collection day . . . . associate didn't get the turntable (?)
You're nearly right. Actually the Mega Rare, and I mean mega rare VHS tapes arrived but with plenty of hassle. They were poorly packed and the " rare, once in a lifetime, never played, never opened VHS tapes " could have been damaged. It was the ultra rare DVD set that was damaged. Luckily rather than go through the hassle with Pitney Bowes, the seller gave me the last set of DVDs. She sent them over.
And the associate had the issue with the seller that had a quadraphonic SQ 4 channel decoder. He won it for $40 when they usuually go for $180 or did back then. Seller came up with a story after 2 days of silence .. .. "Oh sorry, I dropped it on the floor and it broke". And when I said to seller that we could have a crack at fixing it (Which I can do with broken circuit boards) , seller said .. .. "Oh, it was collected in the rubbish yesterday".
Don't worry, my recounting will be of some other nasty experiences that I had. I won't mention my horrible Pitney Bowes experiences. I was going to briefly include the quadraphonic SQ 4 channel decoder experience that my associate had. But I was going to give a couple more examples that the poor sod encountered. One from an Australian seller that sold him a huge Sansui 4 channel amp that had a dead channel hot wired to a live one to give the impression all 4 channels were working. I was also going to share another one of his experiences where he purchased from a New Zealand seller, a Full Logic quadraphonic SQ 4 channel decoder that had a distorted channel and other problems. After having delays by the seller in contacting him fior a resolution, the seller said .... " Oh, sorry, I am going to embark on an overseas world holiday and will be out of contact".
I kid you not!
Ah, I should mention the same guy won a decoder from a seller in the US and poor packing meant that the sharp underneath of the decoder guillotined the power cord. Seller refused to take responsibility for his shoddy workmanship and my associate had to do ...... Hmmm hang on, maybe I had to do a repair job on the cord with block connector and electrical tape. It spoilt the look as the cord was no longer original.
So I may include the above with my own horrid expericences sir.
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