Some Palahniuk and other auctions

ah, weaveworld. Just looked. Cool!

sweet. He does this one series kind of for young teens called Abarat, and he illistrates all of them with tons of his works. I started reading them in sixth grade, and I'm still interested in them, which must mean he's doing something right. I have a couple of his other stuff, like Cabal, and Imajica. I have yet to read those though. Look at this:

[URL=http://www.amazon.com/Clive-Barker-Visions-Heaven-Hell/dp/0847827372/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4991523-2446263?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190517718&sr=8-1]Visions of Heaven and Hell[/URL]

Maybe I'll send mine to you, if you promise to return it.

because it's more fun this way!

I don't know, that would suck if it got lost in the mail.....

sure.

[QUOTE=McMuddle;1042067]Oh, so [I]YOU'RE[/I] sunsunbloo![/QUOTE]

Uh oh? :)

Have we been bitter foes in some auction?

[QUOTE=corellion;1042077]Nightmarish story please?[/QUOTE]

It's actually two stories.

Paypal requires online tracking for proof of delivery. Regular US post does not track to other countries.

I used UPS ( a private shipping Co.) to send something with online confirmation to Canada, the buyer got hit with a huge brokerage fee which I ended up reimbursing because I'm fair like that. Then I sent something to France using regular US post, and [B]the buyer sent me a thank you email, AND left me positive feedback. [/B]Then she disputed the charge with Paypal saying she never received the item. Because I did not have proof of online tracking (though I did have several emails with the buyer discussing shipping options, plus a thank you email), Paypal gave a refund to the buyer.

[QUOTE=corellion;1042082]You had her address right? You should have burnt down her house. Or sent her a dead puppy or something.[/QUOTE]

I like puppies. Plus she's in France. I suppose I could have asked Ludwig to beat her about the head with a baguette.

im staying strictly the contental us, unless i have very open communication with the intending buyer.. i have about ten horror stories that have to do with the netherlands brazil france and germany..

anyway, i agree. stay within the boarders for collectables.

ill try and hit richard's (wickercat) pm about the russian fc--he's hard core into collectables.

[QUOTE=JKabol;1042158]im staying strictly the contental us, unless i have very open communication with the intending buyer.. i have about ten horror stories that have to do with the netherlands brazil france and germany..

anyway, i agree. stay within the boarders for collectables.

ill try and hit richard's (wickercat) pm about the russian fc--he's hard core into collectables.[/QUOTE]

The horror stories abound. It's too bad, that whole a few bad apples cliche.

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ebay footed me a 14 day account cancelation because some asshole must have spammed me for my password and upped a cell phone into my account. one of those ghost cell phones, some scam or other. the kind where, to get this phone, you have to send a money order to said address whatever.. ebay canceled all of my auctions and put me on freeze for 14 days. id just sold all of my hempel first editions and some gaming console and whatever else. we really needed the money at that point and one night everything is fine and the next morning i have six emails that are messages from people asking why i was stealing the money theyd sent and the they were quite upset/mean about it.

I fucking contacted ebay by having them call me while i was online. motherfuckers couldnt reinstate my auctions but did unfreeze my account, leaving me on a form of probationary review. my name wasnt destroyed, but i hate being eyed.

i contacted every person who sent payment for the items they won and assured them that their items did get sent. each and every one did get their shit, but the transactions were cancelled by ebay so i didnt get feedback for my first dozen item sells.

life just aint fair sometimes.
im sorry, mirk, and good luck
kabol

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[QUOTE=JKabol;1045894]. .

ebay footed me a 14 day account cancelation because some asshole must have spammed me for my password and upped a cell phone into my account. one of those ghost cell phones, some scam or other. the kind where, to get this phone, you have to send a money order to said address whatever.. ebay canceled all of my auctions and put me on freeze for 14 days. id just sold all of my hempel first editions and some gaming console and whatever else. we really needed the money at that point and one night everything is fine and the next morning i have six emails that are messages from people asking why i was stealing the money theyd sent and the they were quite upset/mean about it.

I fucking contacted ebay by having them call me while i was online. motherfuckers couldnt reinstate my auctions but did unfreeze my account, leaving me on a form of probationary review. my name wasnt destroyed, but i hate being eyed.

i contacted every person who sent payment for the items they won and assured them that their items did get sent. each and every one did get their shit, but the transactions were cancelled by ebay so i didnt get feedback for my first dozen item sells.

life just aint fair sometimes.
im sorry, mirk, and good luck
kabol

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Hey Kabol,

Thanks for posting that because I honestly have been feeling like total crap about this since last night. I got home from work and went to check my auctions, I'd worked for 10 hours and was exhausted and you know how fun it is to see if you have any new bids and all. :) I just felt slapped, drank an entire bottle of wine, slept bad, woke up still not believing it. It's good to have someone to commiserate with even though I do feel bad you had such a crappy experience too.

I'm glad you got your account reinstated fast, it gives me hope that I might be able to get someone on the phone to sort this out. I really want my listing fees back. I spent extra to add more pictures so people could really see what they're getting etc.

I think it might be one of two people: One who bitched at me for ending my FC auction at 1:00 AM their time, then stayed up to snipe and still lost it. Or, two, a member with horrible feedback (60%!) whose bids I cancelled and blocked from bidding on my auctions. They sent me a bunch of messages via ebay flipping out on me for not letting them bid. Maybe I can get ebay to check those two members out, check IPs or [I]something[/I].

I'm glad it all worked out for you in the end. Too bad about the feedback though.

Thanks again,

Meerk :)

[QUOTE=mirka;1045809]So, the horror stories truly do abound.

Some fucker created a brand new account yesterday, zero feedback, and bid up all my auctions, then apparently reported themselves, or someone else did, I don't know, because I got home late last night and all my auctions were canceled, my account suspended for 14 days, and all my listing fees forfeit.

I don't know if it was someone screwing with me, or someone that mistakenly thought they were "helping" me, but basically, my reputation is trashed, my items are unsold. Basically, I'm screwed.

I'm sorry if you were watching or bidding on my items.

I am emailing back and forth with ebay, but they just keep sending me canned responses[/QUOTE]
I asked you how it went the other day and you said it went well. That sucks Mirka. You would think that a company like e-bay would be able to keep ridiculous mistakes from happening. Sorry Mirka.

So, I just got a message via ebay messages from a brand new member that registered today. He/She/It called me a "fucking bitch" and said/asked how does it feel to be "destroyed" by a "TRUE" Palahniuk fan. True was all in caps. It said more, but jesus, my head is reeling.

Oh, and guess what, there is nowhere in the message console for me to forward or report that message to ebay..

[QUOTE=mirka;1047036]So, I just got a message via ebay messages from a brand new member that registered today. He/She/It called me a "fucking bitch" and said/asked how does it feel to be "destroyed" by a "TRUE" Palahniuk fan. True was all in caps. It said more, but jesus, my head is reeling.

Oh, and guess what, there is nowhere in the message console for me to forward or report that message to ebay..[/QUOTE]

Wow. My sympathies. It sucks that ebay is so vulnerable to petty terrorism against a reliable seller. And so frigging dumb to fast remedies. Sorry for your troubles.

[B]persevere![/B]

So I finally got a real person on the othe rend of the email chain that REVIEWED my case and refunded me my auction fees and lifted the restriction. It was auction interference and I am looking at my two main suspects and one is no longer a registered user.. :)