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RE: [OM] how come?

Subject: RE: [OM] how come?
From: "George M. Anderson" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:41:45 -0800
Hey, it's your item, you can set your conditions. Don't look back.

George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim L'Hommedieu
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 9:21 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Moose
> Subject: Re: [OM] how come?
>
>
> Paranoia?  Yeah, I may have over-reacted.  That's why I started
> the thread.
>
> My problems were:
> 1.  In the first communication he said he was gonna PAY from Korea and
> didn't say "electronically".  I thought he was gonna *mail* a money order.
>
> 2.  I had a money order go wrong from a buyer in Canada to my own, locked
> mailbox.  Someone signed for it and it cleared.  It took 7 months
> to reissue
> the money order and get paid!  I don't have a problem with the shipping.
> Heck, I have to go the post office anyway; it's easy enough to fill in 6
> boxes in the customs declaration form.
>
> 3.  In hindsight, in his last email he said, "WE CANNOT USE THE
> PAYPAL SO I
> CAN SEND BY MONEYGRAM AND IT TAKE ONLY 1 DAY."  I think this is
> probably an
> electronic service but  I've never heard of Moneygram and I don't
> want a new
> account, ya know?  I gave him PLENTY of choices and I don't want
> to open an
> new account for each ebay buyer.  I stated "PayPal, money order, or
> International Postal Money Order".  I would accept a money order
> mailed from
> the US or Canada but a money order mailed from Korea is another matter,
> time-wise.  It also raises the specter of that Canadian money order that
> disappeared from the mail system.
>
> 4.  I told the buyer that if he can't meet the stated payment instructions
> he MUST ask about other arrangements before he bids.  He ticked me off,
> trying to jam a different payment down my throat, from the other
> side of the
> planet.
>
> Lama
>
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