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C.Zoui YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 37	Re: 3Dfx Related eBay Auctions - Discussion Reply #165 - 10.03.09 at 19:52:24 He's going to put a reserve of at least 200.
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Reply #166 - 12.03.09 at 04:54:42

Well, the mousepads showed up today... Cheesy

(my purple girl was just thrown in for color)

I will stop at the post office and see how much the cheapest method of shipping is and update everyone. If you would like to be on/off the list below please let me know. The mousepads will cost ~$4-5 a piece. (combined shipping of course if you want more than one)

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Reply #167 - 16.03.09 at 03:25:53

So after spending more than I wanted to, I finally got my Voodoo5 5500 PCI.

But the seller didn't think it was a good idea to ship a fragile piece of electronics equipment in an actual box. S/he must have saved all of 35 cents using an envelop. What's inside was some felt-like stuff that protected less than bubblewrap and even real foam.

The force of the trauma this package suffered getting here was enough to shatter the driver CD!

The PCB itself is very warped. It should lay flat against this table!

The card looks like it almost snapped in half! I've never seen anything like this.

I'm so pissed off, I haven't even tested it yet. Technically USPS was the one that damaged it, but in my mind his/her decision to ship in an envelope made the damage possible. I also know from shipping with USPS that they are required to ask you if your package is liquid, fragile, perishable, hazardous, etc. There wasn't even a "fragile" stamp on the box; s/he didn't even tell them! Finally, there was no pcb warping evident in the pic s/he showed on the auction.

I will test it soon, but even if it works, do you think I'm entitled to my money back? More importantly, what recourse do I actually have here?

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Reply #168 - 16.03.09 at 03:33:59

This is terrible! Smiley

The seller is responsible for shipping the item safely to you which he/she or it didn't do, and the good thing is that you can claim the seller for shipping the product in a very unprotected way and that you received a defect product.

And since you have good photo's that show this evidence they will cover your case. and another thing; you should be able to get a refund via PayPal with this case.

Stupid sellers these days the moron should of packed it with antistatic Bubble wrap in a tight box, since it's a damn VGA card not a frikk'n piece of card board, such things do piss me off as well, I know what it feels like to be in such situations. Angry

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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: 3Dfx Related eBay Auctions - Discussion Reply #169 - 16.03.09 at 03:45:01 is this from ebay? I would say,go ahead and demand a full refund.the card is almost destroyed because of sellers stupidity/cheapness.
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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	Re: 3Dfx Related eBay Auctions - Discussion Reply #170 - 16.03.09 at 03:50:58 I hope you paid for insurance. If not you could be in trouble.
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C.Zoui YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 37	Re: 3Dfx Related eBay Auctions - Discussion Reply #171 - 16.03.09 at 03:54:47 Yes it is from ebay. No I did not get insurance. So there may be a way to go through paypal, not just ebay?
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Reply #172 - 16.03.09 at 04:02:58

yes PayPal has a resollution Center, over there you can send in a claim for a refund of your money of an item you bought from ebay and to resolve the problem as thereby letting PayPla refund you your cash, I had this once with an EPoX EP-8K3A+ mobo I bought on ebay the seller sent me the worng mobo type which I paid for he sent me an EPoX EP-8KTA3LC+ with tons of busted Capacitors, I made pics of it as the closeups of the damaged area, and resized them to 800 x 600 in jpeg format and emailed them to the person which helped me get my funds back via the PayPal way and he told me that my pics were perfect as proof.

The seller didn't even reply to me within 2 weeks before this process as during it so within 30 days I did get my EUR 39,36 back from PayPal.

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Reply #173 - 16.03.09 at 04:21:59

C.Zoui wrote on 16.03.09 at 03:25:53:

So after spending more than I wanted to, I finally got my Voodoo5 5500 PCI.

But the seller didn't think it was a good idea to ship a fragile piece of electronics equipment in an actual box. S/he must have saved all of 35 cents using an envelop. What's inside was some felt-like stuff that protected less than bubblewrap and even real foam.

The force of the trauma this package suffered getting here was enough to shatter the driver CD!

The PCB itself is very warped. It should lay flat against this table!

The card looks like it almost snapped in half! I've never seen anything like this.

I'm so pissed off, I haven't even tested it yet. Technically USPS was the one that damaged it, but in my mind his/her decision to ship in an envelope made the damage possible. I also know from shipping with USPS that they are required to ask you if your package is liquid, fragile, perishable, hazardous, etc. There wasn't even a "fragile" stamp on the box; s/he didn't even tell them! Finally, there was no pcb warping evident in the pic s/he showed on the auction.

I will test it soon, but even if it works, do you think I'm entitled to my money back? More importantly, what recourse do I actually have here?

Oh my god, this is disconcerting! Embarrassed

That poor 5500 PCI! Cry

You know, IMHO the loss of a rather rare 5500 PCI is even worse than the loss of money you have ATM. But I hope you will at least get the money back!

BTW badly packed: http://dau-alarm.de/g_pack.html

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 3Dfx Related eBay Auctions - Discussion Reply #174 - 16.03.09 at 11:13:47 The seller is at fault- Clearly it has not been mailed in a safe manner and Ebay/paypal should be notified. Insured or not has nothing to do with it. It is really stupid considering that the US Priority boxes are free from the post office.
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Reply #175 - 16.03.09 at 18:01:13

gdonovan wrote on 16.03.09 at 11:13:47:

It is really stupid considering that the US Priority boxes are free from the post office.

That's true!

At any rate, I'll definitely be getting a refund. The PCB is so bent that I can't even stick it in a PCI slot. I'm going to be a gentlemen, though, and offer him neutral feedback if he refunds me in full. If not, the gloves come off.

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Reply #176 - 16.03.09 at 18:02:06

Hey C.Zoui, do you have an url to the ebay auction?

maybe the feedback of this seller could tell us something as well.

Feedback is certainly one of the major things I'd check first before making a bid, but okay it is too late now but even so the way how he listed the auction could have some valuble info as well, on how he would pack it or ship it as such.

C.Zoui wrote on 16.03.09 at 18:01:13:

gdonovan wrote on 16.03.09 at 11:13:47:

It is really stupid considering that the US Priority boxes are free from the post office.

That's true!

At any rate, I'll definitely be getting a refund. The PCB is so bent that I can't even stick it in a PCI slot. I'm going to be a gentlemen, though, and offer him neutral feedback if he refunds me in full. If not, the gloves come off.

Hmm for such a delivery he deseves a Negative feedback, such sellers should be given a negative, but I would wait until you get a refund first so that this seller will get an option that he can't give you a negative feedback Wink

So at this moment you give him a negative as describing on how he packed it ans sent it to you in a very unmannerly way.

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C.Zoui YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 37	Re: 3Dfx Related eBay Auctions - Discussion Reply #177 - 16.03.09 at 18:09:13 He was 100% positive but with only 28 transactions. Then again, I'm 100% positive with only 22 transactions, so I felt like he deserved a chance. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=1302...
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Reply #178 - 16.03.09 at 18:14:16

Hmm oke well his auction looks neat, what you also could do is mail a few pics of the card to this seller and show him how it arrived and that this is not what you expected from a 100% feed backed seller and they you request a full refund for this item, if this doesn't work you can always use the Ebay way then be processed to PayPal's Resolution Center instead.

Anyways you have the full rights to get a refund insured or not like Gary explained.

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: 3Dfx Related eBay Auctions - Discussion Reply #179 - 17.03.09 at 05:54:29 Sheesh! That's AWFUL for you @C.Zoui... I hope you manage to get the situation resolved! (I wonder if the card still works?)
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