- Mar 28, 2001
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I am still in the process of trying to get things sorted out after a trade, maybe some people here can help me out, make sure I'm not totally cracked in my expectations.
I made a posting back in April about looking for a G4 system. Something old and affordable. I found one trader who was willing to part with his system, but had to check it's specs, later told me it was a dual 450 G4 with no RAM, HD, or CD. Over the course of a month of IM it eventually became a 350 G4 and he bought a single 400 off of eBay, but was installing RAM at my request, but also adding extra HD, CD, etc. Payment was finally made and the box was shipped around the 1st of July. From my end it seemed like he just made no attempt to contact me in that time period, but messages do get lost.
So Paypal was sent and I started waiting for the box.. waiting and waiting.
I live in Saipan, a small island near Guam, and it's a protectorate of the US so USPS is domestic shipping costs from the US to Saipan, and it's the only affordable way. I made it a point to make sure the box was shipped with Insurance as it's often the only way to get a package reliably here in a decent time frame.
After the first 21 days, when you can sometimes start filing for lost packages, I asked him to start looking into what he would need to do if the package was lost.. blah blah blah.
After the 30 days were up, I started to get worried and trying my best to get some information on the insurance so we could start filing claims. Even writing the official letter about the box bieng lost. To which I got a response from the seller that he actually never got insurance on the box and forgot to tell me he never got insurance when I told him repeatedly it would need it. He filed several USPS complaints trying to find out what he could do to find out what happened to this package.
After 10 more days of waiting for information the box did eventually show up.. in some of the worst condition a box that holds a computer can. The thin cardboard box had begun to rip in shipment due to the weight of a computer, and the Postal workers had created several layers of Priority Mail tape to hold it together. The computer was inside the box, that had a real strange collection of packing materials. Some peanuts, some newspaper, some rolled up cardboard priority mail envelopes, even one of his ATM reciepts.
The computer did work fine, but the rear support for the G4 was broken. Should only cost $20 for a replacement + shipping.
Now, I know I should expect him to get me a replacement rear support ASAP because of his mistake to not insure it, but should I expect him to refund me any of the shipping costs because he did not ship it Insured like I asked and because of the seemingly amatuer packing job, or should I just be content the box showed up and sit on my thumbs waiting for the rear support.
Thanks in Advance.
I made a posting back in April about looking for a G4 system. Something old and affordable. I found one trader who was willing to part with his system, but had to check it's specs, later told me it was a dual 450 G4 with no RAM, HD, or CD. Over the course of a month of IM it eventually became a 350 G4 and he bought a single 400 off of eBay, but was installing RAM at my request, but also adding extra HD, CD, etc. Payment was finally made and the box was shipped around the 1st of July. From my end it seemed like he just made no attempt to contact me in that time period, but messages do get lost.
So Paypal was sent and I started waiting for the box.. waiting and waiting.
I live in Saipan, a small island near Guam, and it's a protectorate of the US so USPS is domestic shipping costs from the US to Saipan, and it's the only affordable way. I made it a point to make sure the box was shipped with Insurance as it's often the only way to get a package reliably here in a decent time frame.
After the first 21 days, when you can sometimes start filing for lost packages, I asked him to start looking into what he would need to do if the package was lost.. blah blah blah.
After the 30 days were up, I started to get worried and trying my best to get some information on the insurance so we could start filing claims. Even writing the official letter about the box bieng lost. To which I got a response from the seller that he actually never got insurance on the box and forgot to tell me he never got insurance when I told him repeatedly it would need it. He filed several USPS complaints trying to find out what he could do to find out what happened to this package.
After 10 more days of waiting for information the box did eventually show up.. in some of the worst condition a box that holds a computer can. The thin cardboard box had begun to rip in shipment due to the weight of a computer, and the Postal workers had created several layers of Priority Mail tape to hold it together. The computer was inside the box, that had a real strange collection of packing materials. Some peanuts, some newspaper, some rolled up cardboard priority mail envelopes, even one of his ATM reciepts.
The computer did work fine, but the rear support for the G4 was broken. Should only cost $20 for a replacement + shipping.
Now, I know I should expect him to get me a replacement rear support ASAP because of his mistake to not insure it, but should I expect him to refund me any of the shipping costs because he did not ship it Insured like I asked and because of the seemingly amatuer packing job, or should I just be content the box showed up and sit on my thumbs waiting for the rear support.
Thanks in Advance.
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