kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
This past month I have purchased 2 items that turned out to be DVD-Rs...and man, was I PISSED OFF (still am!)
It's not just the fact that the sellers think they can get away with it, it's also the HASSLE of dealing with the seller and all the time and energy that goes into that.
1st case: ordered a "Zarzuela" box set for my Dad (who lives in the US), who wanted one..,found one in yamazon .es marketplace seller. It said "ALL REGIONS"...now, as QC for many discs and having dealt with the industry, MOST "ALL REGION" DVDs are NTSC because it's the "universal" standard. I get the box set, and I don't even bother opening it when I see outside "PAL /ALL REGIONS"
WHHHAAAT??
I get in touch with the seller and tell him that I wanted it for my Dad , blablablah..
Without telling me anything else, I get an email telling me that another set has been sent to me. WHAT? I tell them "There must be some misunderstanding- I did not want another set, please send MRW to collect both sets" (MRW picked up the ORIGINAL PAL set and I have the pick up slip)
THEN they tell me that the OTHER set is NTSC.
Well, OK, I proceed to open it and find out that it's a BUNCH of DVD-Rs with its contents looking like a VHS recorded it at SLP speed from analog TV....I tell them that I do not want that kind of trash and that I'd be ashamed to send it to anyone..and man, do they get all riled up!!!!(OH , IT'S PRO FILMED; yaddah yaddah yaddah)
So I tell them "Listen, first, you send me something I did NOT ask for and that is NOT listed as a product in yamazon, so for yamazon's sake , it doesn't exist."
I'm debating whether to keep it or to have them pick it up, but, at this point, the trust is GONE and who knows what they might come up with and tell yamazon I did....
2nd case:
There is this Spanish website "a la fleabay" where I have found all kinds of things that are really expensive anywhere else and I've gotten a LOT of great things from those sellers...until now...
I saw that somebody was selling the Jean Michel Jarre in China DVD for 9,95 new, so I thought , what the hell??? Most people here don't know what they are selling, anyway! That's the charm of this website!!
So , I get the package today...it didn't bode well when I saw the low quality of the cover, it was a "homemade" ink jet printer copy, and , although the DVD had the VERY FUZZY artwork on it, I turn it around and it's PURPLE!!!! ...NOT ANOTHER DVD-R, PLEASE!!!!!!!
Sent the seller a message, asking for a full refund plus the s&h for the return- he said he was gonna refund me later tonight....(lesson learned here, I payed thru PPal but sent it as a gift to save a couple of bucks...next time I'll send it as what it was, a payment , so I can get the PPal protection..., as it is, it was 12 Euros in total, so , we'll see what might happen...)
Is it just me or do sellers think people are stupid?
It's not just the fact that the sellers think they can get away with it, it's also the HASSLE of dealing with the seller and all the time and energy that goes into that.
1st case: ordered a "Zarzuela" box set for my Dad (who lives in the US), who wanted one..,found one in yamazon .es marketplace seller. It said "ALL REGIONS"...now, as QC for many discs and having dealt with the industry, MOST "ALL REGION" DVDs are NTSC because it's the "universal" standard. I get the box set, and I don't even bother opening it when I see outside "PAL /ALL REGIONS"
WHHHAAAT??
I get in touch with the seller and tell him that I wanted it for my Dad , blablablah..
Without telling me anything else, I get an email telling me that another set has been sent to me. WHAT? I tell them "There must be some misunderstanding- I did not want another set, please send MRW to collect both sets" (MRW picked up the ORIGINAL PAL set and I have the pick up slip)
THEN they tell me that the OTHER set is NTSC.
Well, OK, I proceed to open it and find out that it's a BUNCH of DVD-Rs with its contents looking like a VHS recorded it at SLP speed from analog TV....I tell them that I do not want that kind of trash and that I'd be ashamed to send it to anyone..and man, do they get all riled up!!!!(OH , IT'S PRO FILMED; yaddah yaddah yaddah)
So I tell them "Listen, first, you send me something I did NOT ask for and that is NOT listed as a product in yamazon, so for yamazon's sake , it doesn't exist."
I'm debating whether to keep it or to have them pick it up, but, at this point, the trust is GONE and who knows what they might come up with and tell yamazon I did....
2nd case:
There is this Spanish website "a la fleabay" where I have found all kinds of things that are really expensive anywhere else and I've gotten a LOT of great things from those sellers...until now...
I saw that somebody was selling the Jean Michel Jarre in China DVD for 9,95 new, so I thought , what the hell??? Most people here don't know what they are selling, anyway! That's the charm of this website!!
So , I get the package today...it didn't bode well when I saw the low quality of the cover, it was a "homemade" ink jet printer copy, and , although the DVD had the VERY FUZZY artwork on it, I turn it around and it's PURPLE!!!! ...NOT ANOTHER DVD-R, PLEASE!!!!!!!
Sent the seller a message, asking for a full refund plus the s&h for the return- he said he was gonna refund me later tonight....(lesson learned here, I payed thru PPal but sent it as a gift to save a couple of bucks...next time I'll send it as what it was, a payment , so I can get the PPal protection..., as it is, it was 12 Euros in total, so , we'll see what might happen...)
Is it just me or do sellers think people are stupid?