Snazzy little MP3/4 player purchased off eBay. I could do with one of those as no-one got me one for my birthday. Ooh there's a nice one, from China. Unbranded but 8Gb.
Two days after purchase, seller becomes deregistered from eBay. eBay says transaction should be considered cancelled, but must wait 10 days before entering a dispute. I wait 10 days, device arrives. A bit "cheap" looking and soon find it has dodgy habits, like switching off after 10 seconds. I stayed up until 2am trying to make it take tracks off Realplayer (and that's another problem: Realplayer wouldn't display track or album names off the CDs I was feeding it)
The instructions were in forren eg: "Feoture Guide" and "Can be as soon as possible relaxed for the sake of you from if ground the operation this machine, please before you start use this machine careful read the manual that we provide random, for the purpose of your ability the right usage was a machine originally", so that was no help.
As advised by eBay I open a dispute with Paypal and am refunded $33 within minutes. Which is great as the thing is useless and anyway not recognised as a transaction by eBay.
When I open My eBay tonight, the damn thing is requesting payment again, even though the seller is still deregistered. I hope the Chinese hordes aren't about to pay me a visit and mess with my 100% eBay rating.
Serves me right: J predicted it wouldn't work, and M says "same thing happened with that rotten laptop you got cheap on eBay that hasnt got enough to run Windows 89 (sic)"
I am bidding for a Walkman instead
6 comments:
Is your green laser still working?
A false economy, ah well.
My green laser is winderful
How about a nice raster blaster instead
If my sons were yours, you'd have had an iPod Touch for Christmas.
At least if you bought your crap from Trago Mills you could take it back!
Mermy
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