On 10/04/02 08:21, "Jon Glass" <jonglass_at_mac.com> wrote:
> on 4/10/02 12:17 AM, Grant C. Brunson at grant_at_burneffect.com wrote:
>
>> I too had a little trouble with Phillydiscounters / Variety shop. I won =
> a
>> 2100 on eBay from them. They charged me $15.00 for shipping, spent $5.00=
> on
>> the postage and didn=B9t bother to insure the package. I found this out
>> during a brief scare when my post office was unable to locate my package.
>> Needless to say, a couple of days after the post office lost the package,
>> the e-mails I sent requesting the information they had about the shipping=
> so
>> I could file my claim, were ignored. $15.00 for shipping and no insuranc=
> e?
>> Give me a break...
>
> I also bought from Variety Shop. They shipped FedEx with tracking, and it
> got there fine. It seemed to be well-packed, as my parents had to do nothin=
> g
> to ship it to me. It came with a 32meg card which seems to work fine, and
> the body is in good condition. My gripes: The screen, is horribly scratched
> in the lower-left-hand corner and a door clip is missing. It looks like
> somebody used a sharp ballpoint pen to try writing. I can ignore it most of
> the time, but sometimes it's a bother. I'm hoping that a screen protector
> will help in this. :-) It also has no dongle, which was my other gripe, but
> I should have read that more carefully. I realized it didn't come with a
> dongle after the auction was over. :-( The screen, however is my big gripe.
> I thought I had read that there were no scratches. Oh well. I'm 5,000 US
> miles from them, and I'm not going to quibble at this point.
5000 US miles? I thought you were in Poland. Is there really such distance
between Poland and Philadelphia?
-Laurent.
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