Does anyone have any stories during this Mercury Retrograde phase? I usually don't have many problems during these phases but this current one has been off the charts with missed communications, misunderstandings, and problems with packages in the mail. So here is the top story for me:
I ordered a garment from a vendor on Ebay. When it arrived, I saw that it was too small, so I checked and saw that the vendor accepts returns, but I had to pay for the return shipping. I initiated a return request, and she emailed a label which I had to pay for through Pay Pal. I got the package sent off alright, and there was tracking included so I checked back now and then to see if it had returned successfully. Then the tracking info got weird. It was saying that the vendor no longer lived at the return address and not only that, she had not left a forwarding address, either. I wrote to her on Ebay, asking about this.
This is where it got weird. She wanted ME to provide the tracking number, although she had provided it in the first place. So I cut and pasted the number into my reply. But I also contacted Ebay to let them know there was a problem. The tracking was now telling me that the package was on its way back to me. Ebay informed me that I would be fully refunded except for the shipping since it hadn't been my fault. So I got a refund, the package returned and I didn't feel right but it was getting very confusing because the vendor seemed oblivious to her fault in all this. She wrote back asking if it was too much for me to provide the tracking number, (which she had provided herself) I wrote back and politely told her that since she hadn't provided a forwarding address, the package had come back to me and I wasn't going to pay shipping a second time. At this point the case with Ebay was closed. Today I got still another message from her, asking if I would pay the shipping and also pay half the price of the garment. I ignored it.
In all the years I have done business with Ebay, I have never been involved in such a kerfuffle. It has to be Mercury retrograde!
I ordered a garment from a vendor on Ebay. When it arrived, I saw that it was too small, so I checked and saw that the vendor accepts returns, but I had to pay for the return shipping. I initiated a return request, and she emailed a label which I had to pay for through Pay Pal. I got the package sent off alright, and there was tracking included so I checked back now and then to see if it had returned successfully. Then the tracking info got weird. It was saying that the vendor no longer lived at the return address and not only that, she had not left a forwarding address, either. I wrote to her on Ebay, asking about this.
This is where it got weird. She wanted ME to provide the tracking number, although she had provided it in the first place. So I cut and pasted the number into my reply. But I also contacted Ebay to let them know there was a problem. The tracking was now telling me that the package was on its way back to me. Ebay informed me that I would be fully refunded except for the shipping since it hadn't been my fault. So I got a refund, the package returned and I didn't feel right but it was getting very confusing because the vendor seemed oblivious to her fault in all this. She wrote back asking if it was too much for me to provide the tracking number, (which she had provided herself) I wrote back and politely told her that since she hadn't provided a forwarding address, the package had come back to me and I wasn't going to pay shipping a second time. At this point the case with Ebay was closed. Today I got still another message from her, asking if I would pay the shipping and also pay half the price of the garment. I ignored it.
In all the years I have done business with Ebay, I have never been involved in such a kerfuffle. It has to be Mercury retrograde!