As I wrote a few weeks ago, I was looking to buy an 8-bit nintendo for Girlfriend's birthday. I ordered one off Ebay, but it showed up broken. I received a partial refund from the seller and accepted it since I got a few games out of the deal.
I decided that since this nintendo was broken that I would go ahead and order a second one and it would be here by birthday time. Well... the seller I bought it from supposedly shipped it with Airborne Express on the 18th. Time went by... and on June 30th, I started to get worried that I was getting scammed. So, I shot off an email to the seller, and he said that he had shipped it on the 18th as he said and that he would try to locate a tracking number. I didn't hear back from him for two days.
In the meantime however, on the 1st of July, which coincidentally was Girlfriend's birthday, I got a knock on the door. It was a black lady who lived in town that had received my package 7 days ago! She said that she called them and tried to get them to pick the package up, but they wouldn't. Noone was required to sign for it, and they didn't even deliver it to a person. It was just left sitting outside... but even with all this trouble, at least I had the nintendo for Girlfriend ON her birthday... right on time.
I plugged it in, and lo and behold, the confounded thing didn't work. It just gave me the same ol blinking screen. The box was a little bit damaged, but I assume that what really did the nintendo in was being outside for 7 days in the summer heat.
So, Now I've called Airborne Express (I think they may be DHL now), and they're supposed to send a form for a claim, and then have some inspector out to look at the package. I've read online that they usually try to get out of paying the money... and if that does happen, I'm gonna be on this guy like stink on a pig if he even tries to hint that I'm responsible for the damage to this nintendo.
In the time between getting the first and second nintendo, I managed to fix the first by buying another part off ebay and installing it. I almost spent the entire sum that was refunded to me, but at least we have a working nintendo now.
Posted by Jordan at July 8, 2004 4:05 PM | TrackBack