eBay story
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:26 am
I got the most interesting phone call from FeEx today...
Back in early December I bought a Gibson V on eBay - I posted about it in the Musician's thread at RR.TK with the pics from the eBay site. So I waited and waited and the guitar never arrived.
I contacted eBay and the seller and get this story about how he sent it from a place that went out of business the next day and he had no tracking number, etc. So I went through the whole PayPal process and got my money back and figured I lost out.
So today FedEx calls and says that in their lost package department they have "a guitar shaped like an upside down V" and do I know anything about it? Apparently it got as far as the parking lot of my apartment but there was no apartment number on the package and only my first name and last initial (who ships stuff without a name on the address?), so it sat in Seattle for a month and then was shipped back to Connecticut where it came from; but they have no record of the seller. So this lady has been researching for weeks and has called every apartment in my complex and finally got to me (there are at least 100 apartments in this complex). She has to approve the shipping with her boss (normally they like to return things to the seller) but it looks like I just may end up with the guitar after all.
I feel bad that I don't know how to contact the seller to pay for it now, but I'll research that angle. I believe in paying what I owe, I am just amazed to hear about this guitar again...
Back in early December I bought a Gibson V on eBay - I posted about it in the Musician's thread at RR.TK with the pics from the eBay site. So I waited and waited and the guitar never arrived.
I contacted eBay and the seller and get this story about how he sent it from a place that went out of business the next day and he had no tracking number, etc. So I went through the whole PayPal process and got my money back and figured I lost out.
So today FedEx calls and says that in their lost package department they have "a guitar shaped like an upside down V" and do I know anything about it? Apparently it got as far as the parking lot of my apartment but there was no apartment number on the package and only my first name and last initial (who ships stuff without a name on the address?), so it sat in Seattle for a month and then was shipped back to Connecticut where it came from; but they have no record of the seller. So this lady has been researching for weeks and has called every apartment in my complex and finally got to me (there are at least 100 apartments in this complex). She has to approve the shipping with her boss (normally they like to return things to the seller) but it looks like I just may end up with the guitar after all.
I feel bad that I don't know how to contact the seller to pay for it now, but I'll research that angle. I believe in paying what I owe, I am just amazed to hear about this guitar again...