Several PPC cards on Amibench

[NightShade737]

Interesting considering he was charging 11 euros for shipping...

[CU_AMiGA]

Still haven't recieved a bloody thing yet! :pissed:

[x56h34]

@punkpie:

It doesn't say how much it cost to send it anywhere on the receipt. Where does it say on yours?

[punkpie]

its says it about a 3rd of the way down, on the right.

[x56h34]

It doesn't say anything, unfortunately.

[lempkee]

guys, one word of advice...

patience!

the reason why its taking so long is self explanable...

here is what i belive happened (happens to me alot) :

1. seller gives u a date, then he forgets it..delays and delays...

2. seller finds it ackward to admit he didnt send it when it was said so he keeps quiet about it.

3. package is sent and STOPPED by the customs due to the seller used unordinary packaging and most likely not enough stamps on it.

4. the customs + postal service does an investigation, and send the package to the next step , while this is happening they forward the reciet to the buyer + the extra fee for using too little stamp money (yes this is the BUYERS problem...ugh)

5. sellers package hits the new country marked with lots of weird ass notes and is stopped by the customs, then its opened and checked, if the seller is unexperienced then he probably forgot to make an EN22 or EN23 note on it so the customs automatically delay the package from 2 weeks to 4 weeks.

6. while everything is happening a dispute evolves between buyer and seller, seller wont admit that he failed and everything gets pretty ugly, then all of a sudden the package arrives to the house of the buyer and all is (hopefully) perfect and buyer sends a short mail where it states... IT CAME... all ok...bye..

i have had packages comming from usa that have taken over 4 months! and yes it was infact sent at the day the seller told me, why?...nah just protocols in the customs and this is normal , belive me thats why YOU ALWAYS GOTTA TELL SELLER TO USE AN EN22 OR EN23 package note where it states whats inside and value and the value shouldnt be higher than 20 uk pounds unless u want to pay alot of toll on it (doesnt count for EU country's , i mean from EU to EU its no prob but EU to UK = PROBLEM etc)

i am sure the packages will turn up at your house approx 3 weeks after the reciept came, but remeber it depends on where u live, ie if ure in the states u might get unlucky like i did, 4 MONTHS after the reciet came!


cheers and good luck .

ps:i dont think its a scam and i say this from experience.

[preacher]

@all

I spoke with Deutsche Post just now and this time I got some more information from them. It turns out that the reference number on my reciept belongs to a parcel that has been delivered to Switzerland about a mount ago (23-04-2004)

The guy I talked to couldn't give away the reciever's address due to privacy reasons and we both agreed that the only thing left to do is for the seller to file a complaint towards Deutche Post. So, this is where I am right now. If I can't get hold of mr Binder, the only hope left is that the police will sort this out.

The guy I spoke with at the Deutsche Post was very nice, and I told him about our situation. I asked him if he could help some friends of mine track their parcels aswell. He agreed and with his permission I publish this:

Steffen Wagner, Deutsche Post, Investigation Bureau
+49 69 97 502 140

The aswering machine says welcome, basically, and that someone will answer soon. Just ask for Steffen. He speaks pretty good english, so that shouldn't be a problem. Would be interesting to see if mr Binder sent me the wrong reciept or if he just sent me 'a reciept'.

I kind of had a feeling that something like this might happen...

[PulsatingQuasar]

To add fuel to this situation. I too got a receipt today!

It looks like a piece of paper you get from the supermarket with your grosseries listen on it.

It says the package was sent on 29-03-04. That's way later than he said it was. So the package is only on it's way for less than a month.

What's even more rediculous is the time it took for this receipt to receive me.

[Van_M]

To me it seems that the guy was counting on your monies to buy the card from a third person but something went wrong along the way. I don't mean to worry you even more, but what would have stopped him from posting, eehhm, say, a book, and then, when you try to complain, he'd claims that you are liars and in relity you got the cards?

[punkpie]

I think I'm sticking with lempkee on this one.  I've had a few problems before with packages getting stuck in customs.  I bought 2 tshirts from a US company.  They took 2 months to get here and when they did I had to pay £19 in handling charges.  Typical.

If the same thing happens to my card then I will pay the charges.  I'll be annoyed but at least I'll get my card out of it.  I just hope it works...

"think positive" 8-)

[girv73]

Just FYI, I've still nothing at all...

[Acill]

I dont know if I can buy off on it taking that long. I got a CSPPC card a few years ago from a guy in Germany and it only took three weeks to get to me here in the US. I also got a used CSPPC from Finland and it too only took three weeks. I think you all have been taken advantage of the huge need for PPC cards due to the OS4 thing still.

[sir_inferno]

Lempkee wrote:

(doesnt count for EU country's , i mean from EU to EU its no prob but EU to UK = PROBLEM etc)

ahem, i'll just remind you that the UK is in the EU  :-P

[all be it because of the socialist labour party and mr blair...  :lol: ]

[Flowman]

Why does everyone get stuff but me.. i want my receipt to.

[preacher]

Well, I got my reciept and found out that my parcel was sent to Switzerland and that didn't make me any happier.
The guy is obviously a fraud. End of story. I'm sorry guys, but I'm getting quite tired at this.
The only thing left is to wait for the police to take some action.

[x56h34]

I agree with preacher. These receipts could be phony (they most likely are) and the tracking numbers on them do not provide any useful info at all. I mean the receipts may be genuine, but they do not provide enough proof that they represent OUR packages and not some misc. stuff (previously delivered to someone else, and unrelated to our problem here) which Binder is trying to use to deceive us even further.

The fact that preacher's tracking indicated that the package was shipped to an entirely different country gives you a good enough reason, IMHO, that this is a scam. I mean how likely is it that postal office sent a package to an entirely different country, by mistake?