I bought a laptop on ebay for my mom to play games on.

Your not having much luck with your post this weather. thank crumbs everything i got is perfect , So far.

 

Assembler, you probably have the worst luck with shipping, and here I thought it was bad here in sa where 1 out 10 packages go missing , but I have never had anything damaged from shipping

 

Combined with charging $X for shipping and using $X-50% for profit...

 

Wow that is disgusting and beyond stupid. I had a run in with a US seller recently where they quoted me $56 to post some games to Australia, thought it was the good post. It never showed up, after the set time, I asked where it was. Apparently it had been sent back to the US (funnily enough on the exact day I asked). He then sent them via trackable postage whilst having a whinge at me about the cost of it all. He broke the postage cost down for me saying it cost him $33 to post initially and then $46 to re-post. I asked why he charged me $56 and he came up with some piss-weak excuse. The 2nd time he posted it I got it with-in 2 weeks. I guess instead of trying to screw me on postage, he should have just sent it the correct way initially.

Can you do a claim through Paypal or the like?

 

Some people are just so fucking stupid it's beyond belief. Who in their right mind would send a laptop in a card slip envelope? Morons. File a paypal claim and then some for wasting your time.

Yakumo

 

That's the first thing I noticed. What the fuck is going on with people today? I'm going to send a vase in news paper with sticky tape to everyone from now on. It's so much cheaper...

Idoits, sorry that happen Kev it's horrible..

 

It's bad luck, when we buy shit everything is shipped properly in a nice big ass box.

Or maybe JUST MAYBE I'm secretly tampering with your mail with my Mad Ninja skills

 

That's fucking ridiculous. Any fragile item I've ever sent like that has been wraped with atleast an inch of bubblewrap, in a big sturdy thick box (that was slightly bigger than it had to be) and secured with either packing peanuts of newspaper to make sure it didn't move.

How can somebody be so retarded to send it in one of those envelopes filled with that fuzzy crap? it doesn't protect anything.

 

Honestly why doesn't anyone bother using flat rate boxes? As for the laptop there is no way in hell I would ship a laptop in bubble wrap. Could be worse, could of received in a box with dirty clothes used as wrap.

 

Sounds like you are talking from experience there.

What makes me laugh is that it is not even a bubble mailer, might as well have just stuck some stamps on the laptop and have sent it as is.

 

I never received an item wrapped in dirty clothes, but I saw a post about it once.

 

you have the worst luck with shipping
Assembler next stuff you buy say to the seller you pay extra money for the shipping you wante a big box

 

ASSEMbler does say he'll pay more for good shipping. He said it to me although I was going to post his stuff well packed anyway. I think he's just been very unlucky or dealing with thick shits.

Yakumo

 

I have received a hard drive in an envelope with postage stamps before.

I like to think the seller/shipper just dropped it in a postbox rather than spending the time to go down to the post office.

 

Ho ho fuck! and I thought the phone I bought last month wasn't properly packaged...

Good luck dealing with the fuckwad meatdrones on ebay help, they only give you a pre-written bullshit apology and promise to do jack shit to solve your problem, and that includes getting your money back

They will probably charge you to ship it back to the asshole that sold it to you, and no that wont be in your refund.

You have my sympathies dude, it really is a shitty situation, and another reason why ebay should be destroyed if you ask me.

 

Have you contacted the seller ASSEMbler or what were his responses?

Let me guess:

"Hi, sorry to hear about that, have you tried charging it to see if the screen work? It worked when I had it"

 

Stick postal stamps on it, tape it so its all together and drop it off at the post office if he doesn't pay for the resending.