screwed on ebay: update!

[amalventano1@comcast.net (Allyn)]

umm, what was "the product".?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Abatzis" <abatzis2@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:02 PM
Subject: [ot]: screwed on ebay: update!


> thanks to all who helped me track down the kid on ebay who took the money 
> and ran.  i called his parents, and informed them of the situation. they 
> didn't seem pleased. 2 days later i got the goodies! in case anybody wants 
> to read it, here's a copy of the email he sent me today. i couldn't help but 
> notice that it was from the same address as his other ones, he never sent me 
> a single email, and his timeline is wrong, but:
> 
> 
> "Sorry for not getting the more detailed email to you sooner of my view of
> the misunderstanding that occurred.  As I can see from the USPS website you
> have received your package.  I hope you are happy with it.  Again my
> apologies for the delay in shipping of the package.  Like I said I would do,
> I would try to explain to you how the misunderstanding happened.  Here are
> the events as I see them.
> 
> -You win item
> 
> -Initial emails are made, payment and shipping information is established
> 
> -I assume you sent the money
> 
> -All through January I did not receive the money, I sent you more than one
> email inquiring about this, you never responded.  Near the end of January I
> get a check in the mail with your name on it, different return address on
> the envelope than on the check caused some confusion, I did not worry
> because I could just look at my email
> 
> -About this time my computer had a major crash (caused by bad power durring
> a bad snow storm).  I needed to backup and reformat 40GB of data.  Once this
> process is finished I email you and others (ebay and non ebay related) about
> the issue that I had and it would be a little extra time because of this
> uncontrollable problem.  You never responded to this email.
> 
> -At the same time there was an issue with the payment you gave, it was a
> personal check, I had to give it time to make sure it cleared.
> 
> These were the initial reasons for delay in your product, that did not yet
> excede the amount of time it took you to deliver the payment.
> 
> The rest of the delay was that there was time needed for the check to clear.
> It took less time then I originally thought it did, but some book keeping
> issues and issues with the bank caused some confusion about that.  Also
> buisness and school held things up in a way that they should not have and I
> apologize.
> 
> As far as the fact that I did not respond to your emails is that I now use a
> different email account and my parents use this one.  I told them to inform
> me if I got any mail and they neglected to.  For this I am sorry.  I never
> received any mail from ebay involving this issue.  As can be seen neither of
> us have been exceptional at returning email (although I think this time you
> have done better than I).
> 
> Again I am very sorry, as you can see this was caused by some of my own
> delays, delays that were out of my control, bad communication between you
> and I  from the beginning, that got worse as time went on, my parents only
> made this issue worse.  I was planning on giving you nuetral feed back
> because of your delays with the money and not responding to my inquires.
> After what I had put you through you deserve possitive feedback for having
> to deal it all.
> 
> I hope you see that although I had delayed, this was not entirely my fault,
> I was not trying to "screw you" and I you got your product.  I hope you
> enjoy it, thank you.  If you have any questions let me know, I would like to
> hear from you.
> 
> Roth Michaels
> 
> 
> 
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