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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: stanlong on November 16, 2008, 03:43:44 AM
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bought a600 on e bay bought internal floppy drive on ebay both from great britain both used brittish postal service both didnot arrive and never will is this fairly normal
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from different people?
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yes diferent people
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Since you didn't tell where you live, I can't help.
But from mine south-american experience, packets from England come in 45~60 days, depending on the custom's humour.
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I've had the exact same thing happen to me like a year ago, bought two amigas, one a500 for a friend, and one a1200 for myself from there, ended up waiting for months, nada. so i contacted the sellers, and one found out that the 1200 was sitting in some warehouse... ended up with him having it sent back, and then sent it with dhl, or was it fedex, the package arrived within a week.... Seller got a refund i believe.
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these two were sent ? royal mail air mail so should have arrived within weeks not months sent by sellers name count*
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You cant send anything over 2kg standard small packet airmail so they couldnt of used that for a full Amiga computer.
They would have had to have used Parcel force international I think
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I had an Amiga 1200HD "go missing" (30 quid) from someone on amibay and a trumpcard (1.20, yes, 1.20) from ebay.
The chap on ebay just refunded me after a week. My guess is that the seller just didn't want to sell it for that much!
The 1200... Well, I bought it in January. I'm still waiting for the machine or the refund. If anyone's seen Doog_UK, please check he's OK and ask what's going on :)
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Wont b goin on ebay for me 1200 then.
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just repeating what they claimed
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Had an A4000d motherboard take over 2 months from uk to canada.
It got stuck in customs. Seller had to trace it.
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Had an A4000d motherboard take over 2 months from uk to canada.
It got stuck in customs. Seller had to trace it.
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interesting, but, from my experience, if package doesn't come within a month, it never will.
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This has nothing to do with eBay. This is an all too wide spread problem with mail services around the world.
It's a shame that its so dangerous getting things shipped from "overseas", but that's just the way it is.
Roll the dice and see what shows up...
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I have sent seller emails never recieved a reply
it should not be a gamble
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Hi stanlong
If you have the senders names and addresses, report it to the police in their country, after all it is fraud.
clint
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stanlong wrote:
these two were sent ? royal mail air mail so should have arrived within weeks not months sent by sellers name count*
Well if that's the same person I think you mean then I've bought off him before and received the item in perfect condition.
I've had trouble with packages taking a hell of a long time to reach me. When professional companies send items (Amazon.co.uk, Amigakit, etc) then there doesn't seem to be a problem, but when my brother mails anything then customs seem to hang onto them for what seems like forever.
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count* name is Si Shimells
I have recently asked him to trace it from his end
but I think he`s cloed his ebay accont
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uh-oh that doesn't sound good.. still I had once received an item from China after the seller closed his account! and he even gave me positive feedback as soon as I paid
(which, if you ask me, *should* be usual practice..)