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Post by Randy on Nov 5, 2012 13:24:57 GMT -5
Well, this last Maxxum camera I bought turned into a nightmare. I paid for the camera on October 26th, and I didn't hear from the seller for a few days. Finally he said the camera would go into the mail last monday. I get an answer from him today telling me he will ship the camera soon... ONE WEEK LATER! Well, I started a claim against them. I hate when people play games.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 18:45:09 GMT -5
I've got a "story" on non-ships. I got a good deal on a camera on ebay. soon after the auction ENDED, the seller emails that he took the camera out on a boating trip and it fell overboard!! Anybody beleive that one???
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Post by pompiere on Nov 5, 2012 22:24:52 GMT -5
Was that the 70?
I recently had a package of lenses that I bought from another auction site go cross country twice. They took a long time to ship, so I sent an email to find out what was up. The next day I get an notification that it was shipped and there was a tracking number. So I am eagerly watching USPS tracking as it makes its way to my town, only to be returned as "undeliverable". I called our post office and the postmaster told me that the package they sent back was addressed to another name on a street that didn't exist in our town. Now I wasn't sure if the package even had my stuff in it, since the only thing right was the town. So I send another email, explaining the situation. I tried a different address, since no one actually answered my other ones. The email got someone's attention, because I got a reply right away that it was being looked into and a couple days after my package got back to California, I got a phone call that it had been reshipped with the correct mailing address. Then I got another call to check that I received it. Altogether, it was 4 weeks for "priority" shipping.
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Post by Randy on Nov 5, 2012 23:24:42 GMT -5
No, it's a Maxxum HTSI. I got an e-mail from him today and he says he is broke. I paid him, and he is broke. I started a Ebay Paypal Claim against him. Glad it wasn't a whole lot of money.
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Post by mickeyobe on Nov 6, 2012 5:12:24 GMT -5
I've got a "story" on non-ships. I got a good deal on a camera on ebay. soon after the auction ENDED, the seller emails that he took the camera out on a boating trip and it fell overboard!! Anybody beleive that one??? It is bound to appear on Ebay again. Hold your fire till it does and then pounce. Mickey
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Post by Doug T. on Nov 6, 2012 15:03:44 GMT -5
Randy, I've got an old Minolta X-370 body that was in a box I found. It's totally dead, maybe it's those pesky capacitors, I don't know. Anyway If you want it, I'll send it to you. Just send me a pm with your mailing address. It's not much, but maybe it will make you feel better Doug
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 21:21:16 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a mint Zorki 1 that I bought on Ebay in March 2002 to arrive from a gal named Irina in Siberia.
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Post by mickeyobe on Nov 6, 2012 22:20:20 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a mint Zorki 1 that I bought on Ebay in March 2002 to arrive from a gal named Irina in Siberia. I guess American newspapers don't carry much Russian news. Irina was found in August 2004 when there was a slight thaw. She was frozen solid standing upright in a deep snow filled ditch by the side of the road where she had probably stepped to allow a vehicle to pass. She was holding a package the labels of which had come off. The authorities just tilted her horizontally and buried her and her package where she had been standing. This is a common occurrence up there midwinter when people get cabin fever and go out for a stroll. The packages they almost always carry are a bottle of vodka which broke when the contents froze so they never bother to inspect them. My condolences, Wayne. Mickey
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Post by col on Nov 6, 2012 23:05:15 GMT -5
Randy you didn't get caught on that ' You have just won a picture of a very expensive camera' scam .
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Post by Randy on Nov 8, 2012 14:01:50 GMT -5
I gave him negative feedback yesterday, so he rushed out and shipped the camera.
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Post by Berndt on Nov 8, 2012 18:53:26 GMT -5
Brilliant ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 15:42:32 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a mint Zorki 1 that I bought on Ebay in March 2002 to arrive from a gal named Irina in Siberia. I guess American newspapers don't carry much Russian news. Irina was found in August 2004 when there was a slight thaw. She was frozen solid standing upright in a deep snow filled ditch by the side of the road where she had probably stepped to allow a vehicle to pass. She was holding a package the labels of which had come off. The authorities just tilted her horizontally and buried her and her package where she had been standing. This is a common occurrence up there midwinter when people get cabin fever and go out for a stroll. The packages they almost always carry are a bottle of vodka which broke when the contents froze so they never bother to inspect them. My condolences, Wayne. Mickey Actually, Mickey, I think there is a reason you don't see many sellers from Siberia on Ebay. Back then there was a few but they seemed to have trouble actually selling anything. I got the feeling that you pretty much had to grease a lot of palms to mail something out of the region. At one point Oksana (that was her name--not Irina) sent me 25 brand new Zorki take up spools to try to show her good faith, and a photo book on the area (which I can't find ). I really believe she tried her best. Can't even remember the name of the town now but at the time I did some research that indicated that during the bad old days it had a lot of major defense industry plants and had been pretty much a closed city. That seemed to carry over to a degree even after thew changes. That was my first attempt at buying a Soviet camera and the last time I tried dealing with someone in Sibera
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Post by mickeyobe on Nov 10, 2012 0:51:13 GMT -5
Poor Oksana. She is probably labouring away in some gulag as punishment for her capitalist activities.
Mickey
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Post by Randy on Nov 20, 2012 23:24:01 GMT -5
I got the camera today. It arrived in a box with the top open, and the packing was one piece of bubble wrap so the camera was floating around. Surprisingly, the camera works. I changed the feedback I left, and I was being kind. Paid for this thing on October 26th and it arrived on November 20th. Watch out for Pocket-Pinchers on Ebay.
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Post by Berndt on Nov 22, 2012 1:01:27 GMT -5
What I read here, didn't really motivate me, buying something from the ex-soviet countries via E-Bay, but in the end, I couldn't resist and gave it a try Two cameras arrived from the Ukraine today ( from different sellers ). Both in excellent condition, professionally packed and shipped quickly. I can't complain, but both sellers had excellent ratings and a lot of sells. Many sellers seem to have some kind of online shop and obviously working hard for a good reputation. That might be different if it's a private person, selling a camera once in his/her life though.
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