Several PPC cards on Amibench

[x56h34]

Just thought I should mention that I still haven't received my card. :-( Any luck, anyone else?

It was "sent" to me 16 business days ago or if we count the weekends too, then 22 days. Meanwhile I received another package from Germany (also a BPPC card but from another person) and it arived within 3 business days by airmail! I'm not kidding. I paid 12EUR for that shipment and 30EUR for Tibor's, and look at the difference in receival time. I'm not jumping to conclusions yet, but I am very close to...

[punkpie]

Nope.  Haven't got mine either.  He has posted them using some sort of "premium" postage service which aparently could take up a month!

When I saw this thread reappear I was hoping someone had receieved theirs

[jonssonj]

Hello!

I have got mine from Vesalia now. I ordered it the 5:th of March and they did not ship it until the 23:d of March. That is 5 business days for the shipment to arrive from Germany to Sweden. I'm going to pick it up today. I hope it will work, but that I will see tonight, when I put it in my A1200...

/Jörgen

[CU_AMiGA]

Maybe i should recommend him to using another postage service!  :-D - You gotta laugh!

Seriously, if i don't get it by this Monday coming, i am going to start to ask a few questions, he ain't getting second payment until i recieve card. He said it would take 10-14 days to get here, and it has been well over 20. How the hell could it take a month when he said 10-14 days?

[x56h34]

Perhaps our cards are stuck in customs. That's the only explanation I can think of for the delay.

[JaXanim]

My cheque was cleared on 19 March so the end of next week will make three weeks since payment. That really should be enough time to get here (UK), shouldn't it.

Cheers,

JaX

[x56h34]

Well, as I've said, it could be that customs have our items, if indeed he used Premium German Post shipping, because as such it's a target for more detailed inspection and if so, you "COULD" get additional delays. This "superior" type of shipping offers insurance and tracking usually, however it also has a higher probability than regular airmail to get stuck in customs with these annoying delays.

Anyway, lets wait until Friday night and if nothing arrives by then, we should e-mail Tibor for more info.

[NightShade737]

And a nice 20% bonus charge on top....

[odin]

x56h34 wrote:
Perhaps our cards are stuck in customs. That's the only explanation I can think of for the delay.

That wouldn't explain parcels sent to EU countries.....

[sir_inferno]

JaXanim wrote:
@AccyD

Er, I think that should be the fat postman....it's not over till the fat postman sings. Well, it's something like that.

And our postman is fat. In fact he's very fat. That's a good sign I think. (Optimism)

On the other hand, I never heard him sing. He never sings! (Pessimism)

Doh....

JaX

umm, if he never sings isn't that a good thing since it won't be over? anyway  :-D

[Flowman]

It have now gone 1 month since he got the money.. sure maybe the post in germany is super duper slow. Gaaaaah i want my card =)

[x56h34]

OK, 24 days after the card was officially "sent", I still have no good news guys. :-( I've checked my mail today (Friday), and there was nothing, as usual...

I've e-mailed Bernd and asked to clarify what's going on.

It's a little discouraging that NO ONE has yet received anything after all this time...worldwide! What does everyone think of this? Is he trying to con us? Is he truthful about sending the cards yet? Perhaps he took the money, but he's yet to gether up the cards and actually send them? Perhaps he used ground/sea shipping in order to squeeze a few extra EUR from us? Bah, I have a headache! :-(

[NightShade737]

I have a feeling he has sent it via some stupidly crap shipping method. I just hope he sent them insured/recorded....

[JaXanim]

How many here are awaiting these cards? We may need to start thinking as a group on this.

I count eight to ten, but there may be umpteen other people who don't visit Aorg.

I suggest we all Email Bernd TONIGHT and make it clear that we are very concerned over the delay and again ask for his assurance that things are OK.

If this deal goes bad, I hope someone has something constructive to say about what happens next!

JaX

[PS:  Just sent the Email to Bernd. Please do the same TONIGHT]

[CU_AMiGA]

I will send him an email now. Maybe he's someone from DCE! :-D Maybe we should all tell him we are part of a group and send him a link to this thread, let him know we are on to his little game. Or would that be dangerous?

I WANT PPC CARD!  :-x  

-edit-

Just emailed him. And as for what we could do next there are a few possibilities.

Try and track down the card if it has been sent, if possible.
Get someone that lives in Germany to pay him a "visit".
We all meet up as a group and go down there ourselves!

Any other ideas?

Someone said on this thread though that they know him and he is reliable, apart from the delivery time.

[prowler]

I WANT PPC CARD!  :-x  

-edit-

Just emailed him. And as for what we could do next there are a few possibilities.

Try and track down the card if it has been sent, if possible.
Get someone that lives in Germany to pay him a "visit".
We all meet up as a group and go down there ourselves!

Any other ideas?

Someone said on this thread though that they know him and he is reliable, apart from the delivery time.

I to want my PPC card as well as the CyberPPC GFX card I ordered. I really want to see some of those PPC demos that have been released over the last few years.

Once (if?) I get it, I should finally have an Ami setup to be proud of (And wanted since I was a starving High School student ) I have the 4000 waiting, I bought a 3.1 ROM for it to install AmigaOS 3.9 onto, 128Megs of memorya spare 40Gig IDE HD to plug into a budha controller, ethernet card and an old AD516 sound card. All I need is the PPC card, oh and also do that sound fix thing since sound seems to have died on one of the outputs

Can we do the trip option? I have never been to Germany before and it is spring there atm isn't it ? I need a holiday

This is only the third time I have ordered anything from overseas and both times before it has taken 2-3 months to get to me The date on the postage stamp also matched when they said they posted it. It is definately annoying.