- Mar 3, 2003
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So I just sold a high value professional model video card for 3D modelling and the like. Ebay sent me the "Your item sold" email, and I immediately clicked on the "Print shipping label" button because I like to ship them out the same day.
No problems, off to the post office I go.
Checking back through the next day, and voila, the shipping information on the ebay purchase page has COMPLETELY CHANGED. I'm now supposed to be shipping to a different street address, and a name that sounds like it was pulled straight out of the Russian mob.
Holy shit. Did I just ship this to the wrong place? 45 minutes of checking using my computer and then I get a revelation - check my phone! It still has the original web page and hasn't been reloaded, and has proof that the first address ebay sent me was NOT the one they're sending me now.
A call to Ebay customer service to Habi.... I mean "Alex" muddied the water a bit more. It turns out that a buyer can have one address on their 'ebay' account, but if they pay with paypal that can have a different address, and it will override the first. It just so happens that I printed out the address before their 'system' could interface with paypal to change the address.
So now I'm sitting here wondering if the Russian Mob is going to send a hitman to Detroit to get me because I sent their expensive video card to a floral decoration shop. Holy CRAP. Will they take my firstborn as payment?
No problems, off to the post office I go.
Checking back through the next day, and voila, the shipping information on the ebay purchase page has COMPLETELY CHANGED. I'm now supposed to be shipping to a different street address, and a name that sounds like it was pulled straight out of the Russian mob.
Holy shit. Did I just ship this to the wrong place? 45 minutes of checking using my computer and then I get a revelation - check my phone! It still has the original web page and hasn't been reloaded, and has proof that the first address ebay sent me was NOT the one they're sending me now.
A call to Ebay customer service to Habi.... I mean "Alex" muddied the water a bit more. It turns out that a buyer can have one address on their 'ebay' account, but if they pay with paypal that can have a different address, and it will override the first. It just so happens that I printed out the address before their 'system' could interface with paypal to change the address.
So now I'm sitting here wondering if the Russian Mob is going to send a hitman to Detroit to get me because I sent their expensive video card to a floral decoration shop. Holy CRAP. Will they take my firstborn as payment?
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