Heyyo,
Ouch! now this's why I'll never buy expensive stuff off the net. Especially e-bay.
You gotta watch out guys, lots of scams on the net, lots. I almost got scammed myself. Some apparent "chick" said she was stranded in africa, and she needed cash to get her out of there. She said she was 21, from NY, and that her dad just needed me to cash some travellers cheques at a local money mart (GUYS, careful with places like money mart, they're susseptible to scams as I came to notice), and send them the cash. Sounds easy enough eh? so I get the cheques, but the name on the cheques diddn't even match the name on the envelope which wasn't even the name of the apparent guy and chick! So I asked for a pic, the "chick" pic "she" sent me was some freakin' 14 year old kid! and then I realized, for being white, she had hella horrible writing. This had scam written all over it. So I said I needed a few days to get the cheques done, someone phones, it was some (no offense to any who are, but I'm hella pissed off at this person still) freakin' paki or something! white my ass indeed. He even threatened to kill me or send the "FBI" after me if I diddn't cash the cheques. Right. At this point I took it all to the local authorities. Inded, it's called something like a Pakistaninan scam or something like that. Some scamming punk in Europe asks for people to cash travellers cheques at money mart or someother loan place (NOTE: never the bank cause you have to wait a few days as they check for authenticity), and you send them the cash. THAT CASH IS ACTUALLY YOUR CASH SINCE THE TRAVELLER'S CHEQUE IS FAKE AND SOMEONE HAS TO CLAIM RESPONISIBILITY FOR THEM!
Luckly I was too mart for this crap. No bs for me. But some unlucky dude, maybe 70 years old got scammed and diddn't catch on in time, and was reporting to the cops about it. Poor bugger..
The world is a sadistic place, damn sadistic. The world is definately going to hell guys. When downright theives exploit kind and caring people like this, makes me wish I was just a wolf or something. They have honor, there's no backstabbing, there's no society crap like us humans have.
Anyways, Raze, wish I could hear the finale on this, hope you send this connie to hell for the crap they did to you, and to others. And always guys, ALWAYS make sure the return policy doesn't suck. If it says crap like "exchange only" then it's a bad business. Especially music stores like CD Plus that won't let you return a bummed music cd if you open the package. HECK! I opened the damn package in the store, tried it on my cd player INFRONT of them, and they still wouldn't take it back. Man, if I knew where the owner lived, I would've ran over her dog, or cat or whatever... ripp-off freaks.