EBAY MISTAKE MAY COST US

so, weve paid for this ferris wheel. and because i started the transaction through MY account, and had to swap accounts to craigs to pay for it, its now pending an UNPAID purchase..
ive contacted the seller 2 times about it.
we have confirmation that the item should arrive next week sometime...yet, ebay is still hounding my email for the paymet i made the mistake on..

so, ive sent a dipute email to customer support on it.

trust me, thats hard to do...they require the header of the ebay email and the purchase header, we also included the header from the seller confirming he was thanking us for the purchase...

not a fun process to have to go through doing...

lessons learned.

the worst that can happen is id get a negative mark on my account for NO PAYMENT, which i would again dispute because that would be false, and THAT would have to be done by the seller, whom, as stated i have contacted 2 times about the issue...

kinda would suck, because i have a good record with ebay. it isnt a PERFECT record, but its ok.
so, i really wouldnt like to have any negative mark.

i often wish we didnt have to go through ebay for these things...but often its the best and sometimes the only place we can find the items were searching for.

MICHELLE

ORDERED A NEW (DIFFERENT But Same) FERRIS WHEEL IN N-SCALE

ok, after much thought and deliberation, we decided to buy another Ferris Wheel on ebay (local to the US in VA) for almost half the price of the original one...

if we are given the original, well just resell it for the cost we purchased it for. which, is still quite cheap for the kit itself, because its not out there for under 100.00 on most sites..(*NOTE I SAID : MOST). some are higher, some are lower...but over all, most have this same item for far higher than we got this from this dealer in austrailia.

so we bought this other one...for 32.00.
and the address has been changed on both PAYPAL AND EBAY!

OK. so after an adjustment with hubbys password (he has like 100 different ones, never know which password is for what account) its been ordered, and i even saw the confirmation email in his inbox online...
so, maybe well have a FERRIS WHEEEL soon, that i can work on and make look as awesome as my image in my head said it will be!

MICHELLE

FARRIS WHEEL HAS BEEN SHIPPED TO AN OLD ADDRESS..ARGH!

so, ive been waiting and waiting and waiting on this item, decided today to send the seller an email...

did a little investigation, googles TRACKING NUMBERS FOR AUSTRAILIA, and hit a page that would let me do a search through all the tracking sites all over the world, theres about 7..

so, im going through, and decide to do UPS...and BING! we have a winner!

cick the button to read the details, to find out...
the product hit the doorstep on the 17th, 3 days ago...but....*sigh*....
my FARRIS WHEEL WENT TO THE HOME I LIVED IN OVER 5 YEARS AGO, the family that bought hubbys old home in columbia, SC!
NOT my current home in OKLAHOMA!

ARGH!
we spent like 60 bucks on that thing, and now, we have no way of knowing if well even get it back...
people can claim anything once its at their door.

we completely forgot to make sure the OLD address was off the EBAY account!

now, im not sure how to claim its mine and get it back...
pretty sure its gonna require allot of red tape to do too...

UPDATE: called the postal service 1-800 number, spoke to a BRYAN, who saw the item had been shipped to the address in West Columbia (the OLD address) and was sorry to tell me, because of the mode of shipping couldnt do anything about making sure the product could be delivered to my new address...

DOUBLE ARGH!

so, i sent another email to the seller, explaining this part (i located the item, and it was shipped to an old address) and asked if they sent it back (crossing fingers they do) which NEW address to ship it too so i can have it, i even said wed be willing to pay for additional shipping, as it was our mistake it went to the wrong address in the 1st place)

LESSONS LEARNED!
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SHIPPING ADDRESS FOR EBAY AT ALL TIMES!

MICHELLE

SENT AN EMAIL OFF TO GRAY BROTHERS (Z SCALE ARTISTS EXTRAORDINAIRE!)

everytime i look on ebay at z scale stuff, i always run across the gray brothers creations.
amazing! these things arnt much bigger than a quarter (always shown in each picture) and they have such detail.


anyway, i looked up their website, found it, and even noted the email to email them.


sent the email off inquiring about how they can gauge what is a Z scale building, do they use any form of templates, are there any books, or resources they know of..


because i want to do some for myself.


i seriously didnt think my email would have even gotten consideration, to be honest. and if it did, i wouldnt hear from them for a while.


not even an hour went by and i got the notice (because i request one with every email) that my email had been read!


WOOOOO HOOOO!


now, all i have to do is wait on a reply!


MICHELLE

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