My failure on Ebay

[spinelli372003]

I would skip the whole ebay thing and go to Target.  Not sure where 
you live but target sells them pretty cheap as does sams or walmart 
here in the US.  I got OOTP for $40 and hbp for about the same.  
course it was on sale.  but still you could probably get all of the 
books for close to what you were spending on ebay.  Good luck
sherry

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "thekrenz" <thekrenz at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Ok, since this is the OT chatter I hope my post is within the 
> boundaries of the group.
> I have made 2 attempts to but the HP books on cd through Ebay and 
> both have ended in claims!  I am so disappointed. On my first try, 
I 
> bid on a set of the first six books.  I won the auction at a bid of 
> $202.  That seemed like a pretty fair price to me and I was quite 
> anxious to own the cds.  So I made a prompt (same day) payment 
> through paypal and waited....and waited...and waited.  After 2 
weeks 
> I emailed the seller.  No response.  I emailed him a total of 3 
times 
> with no response, so after nearly 5 weeks I filed a dispute with 
> paypal.   Apparently, paypal put some sort of hold on the seller's 
> account which finally got his attention.  I received a frantic and 
> apologetic email stating the books had been mailed "forever ago" 
and 
> he would look in to their whereabouts immediately.  "Would you 
please 
> cancel your dispute as it is tying up my account?"  I responded 
that 
> I would cancel the dispute as soon as he provided me with a 
tracking 
> number for the shipment of the audiobooks.  Well, you guessed it!  
I 
> never got the tracking number and paypal refunded my money.
> I was disappointed, but determined to buy the cds.  I began 
watching 
> similar auctions and found some that looked great.  I bid on the 
> books individually, and wonder of wonders, they were all being sold 
> by one person!  I won all the books for a total of $175.  Cool, 
even 
> less than my first try.  I was so pleased with myself!
> That didn't last long.  This time, the seller communicated with me 
> quickly.  After 10 days, I asked when I should expect my shipment.  
> The seller was listed in Israel and she said it would take about 15 
> business days for the books to arrive.  Ok....I am a little wary 
> since my first attempt went badly, so I started watching her 
feedback 
> to see how long her other items took to ship.  Guess what?  Right 
> after I read the email assuring me the items would arrive in 15 or 
so 
> days, I found a negative feedback in which the buyer stated he did 
> not receive some of his cds, and the ones he did receive were 
bootleg 
> copies.  Oh, man, here we go again....
> I decided to look more closely at the things the seller had sold in 
> the past.  There were nearly 300 items that had positive feedback.  
> Hmm.  They all had the same item number.  Huh?  How can that be?  
The 
> item turned out to be wallpaper.  No, not the kind that goes on 
your 
> wall, the kind on your desktop.  What the .....?  So I emailed the 
> seller again.  "I am concerned by the negative feedback you 
> received.  Can you provide me with a tracking number and a ship 
> date?"  The response was "Oh, don't worry about that negative.  He 
is 
> just mad because other people have filed disputes against him."  No 
> tracking number or ship date.  This is not going well at all.  I 
> waited a couple more days and then checked my ebay concerning some 
> other auctions I was watching.  The seller of my HP cds is now no 
> longer a registered user with ebay!  "That does it", I thought.  I 
> sent another email to the seller asking why she was no longer 
> registered with ebay.  She responded by giving the date she shipped 
> the cds, but no answer as to why she was not a registered user any 
> more.   Well, yesterday I gave up and filed a second claim with 
> paypal.  I hope I can collect my refund, since she is not 
registered 
> with ebay anymore.  Time will tell.
> Thanks for reading my rant.  Do any of you know of a reputable 
seller 
> on Ebay from whom I can buy the HP audiobooks?  Or, should I just 
> fork over the retail price and buy from Barnes and Noble or someone 
> like that?
> 
> Cyndi
>