One Bad Apple on EBAY

I have this "friend" who let someone rain on his parade yesterday. He has found this new outlet and has met many new friends. He has been having so much fun with these new people. Then, of course, you know, something had to be not so fun. This woman made him feel bad when he had done nothing wrong and he wanted to stop engaging this new "hobby". Of course I jumped up on my soap box and said "NO" you will not let one bad apple spoil the whole barrel, ok, so I forgot the word barrel and used another, same thing, anyway.
I was blogging away this morning, thanking Roxxy for thinking of the word futon, and going on and on about what I had bought at the *evil* IKEA store in Houston, when I mentioned the Krabb mirrors and then it all came back to me.
Hi, my name is Bennu and
I am an Ebayer, yes, I confess, I buy things on Ebay. *you know it is addictive, right?*
Anyway, always had the best success, have bought coins, gpsr equipment, clothes (silk dress from 60's for Halloween), gifts, hard hats for 67 heads, etc.
I have had to return a thing or two, but the seller always *made good* on the sale. I always pay promptly through PayPal.
Well, one day there were these IKEA Krabb mirrors, I got them for less than retail, had to pay outlandish shipping. I was so excited, because there is not an IKEA store here and Houston is a 3 hour drive (now I am singing the theme to Gilligan's Island, not good at this hour).
They get here, I have to go to the post office to pick them up, I thought they would come UPS, because...
I don't live in the town I work in... it is very difficult for me to pick something up from the Post Office. I leave my house at 4 in the morning so I can go to the gym before work, I come home right after work, but the P.O. closes at 4:3o.
This sucks... that's exactly what I thought...
I get to the post office, stand in line, foooorrr evvveeeerrrrr, thinking mean thoughts (I can be a mean girl sometimes, but hey I was just thinking them, again my mental telepathy going), like *don't you people know that my time is valuable? there is another counter, why can't you have enough help working to cull this line down? Is it the vibes in here that make people go postal?* well, you get the picture
Long story short (I know it is killing you)
The box was beat to H E double hockey sticks
I got home and the mirrors were broken into a kajillion pieces, *yes, MyzChaos, I know that is not a "real" word, lol, but it is another one of my words*
I emailed the seller, she was rude, she said she would not reimburse me, she said that I didn't pay for insurance (according to the auction page I did), and she would do nothing. I filed a complaint, and I was sorely disappointed because now, now I could not tell all my non-ebay friends who think it is hooey to purchase on Ebay that
*I have never had one bad experience, everything I have ever gotten has worked great or the seller made good on the sale in another way*
That expletive, expletive, woman had taken that away from me, I was P....

Those mirrors sat in that box over a year, on my work bench in my carport (someone else got the tools and saw, so the workbench hasn't seen much action lately). Just before I went to Galveston in June I finally, finally let it go and put them in the trash.

Do I still Ebay? sure, I don't buy much, I usually use it as a price gauge. You have to be careful, some things go much higher than retail. Right now I am in the market for a good, I mean really good, digital camera with 5.o megapixels *alex, that means it will take really good sharp pictures, for future reference, the higher the megapixel the better, and 5 is the highest*, with something other than a memory stick. I like the sonys that have the mini cd in them. I looked, I made a bid, I got out bid at the last second and then I had a vet bill for the dog, so the camera will have to wait.

I didn't let the apple spoil the whole barrel, she did make me more cautious about who I ebay with... lol, it is early...

Have a great day, I have a shower to catch.