AmishSamurai wrote:Smile- Stephen Colbert is coming to my campus
Ticked Off- I have a test during his speech.
He talked about this on the show - he said that you could come and hear him anyway and learn something you'd never learn in class: "class is for suckahs!"
I have been really enjoying the Colbert/South Carolina/Herman Cain thing - the ad which parodies the "Cain smile" ad is comedy gold, and the whole run on the Daily Show and Report has been fantastic, smart TV.
I'd like to amend my Smile/Ticked off
Smile- my professor cancelled class because everybody was skipping to see Colbert anyways
Smile even more- I got pretty close to the front and got some amazing pictures
EDIT: here's a video from the event my college posted-
MrPopo wrote:The life lesson here is jobs will come and go, but Earthbound will always be there for you.
cookie monster wrote:ticked sold my
personal virtual boy on ebay at the start of december guy emails me saying he finally tried it and said it doesn't work when it was fine when i packed in 2 rolls of bubble wrap cause i played one last time the auction was no returns so it is covered by paypal protection now the guy just emailed me saying i ruined his kids christmas what should i do
UPDATE
time line
bought it dec 6th
payed more to ship faster arrived dec 8th
wanted it for christmas doesn't test it till the 29th
emails me dec 29th saying right lcd is fuzzy
i say fine send it back
he starts dispute jan 4th
ebay sides with him jan 5th they want dc on it
jan 12th guy says it is coming usps
i check dc number it says it is still in wa jan 20 which is day 44
a stranger shows up at my house with a ups package with my name and there address on it it is the box i shipped in dec cause my address is on the other side
that is how the guy found me i open it to find a trashed vb it does not power on at all there is rust on the stand and system screws there is a weird smell of burning plastic and cat pee i don't have a cat i only sold it cause i needed money to go to the dr's is there anything i can do since this guy ruined the system
YoshiEgg25 wrote:Kaboom was actually meant to be drop-down like Avalanche but the 2600 hardware was more suited to have the boulders on the side of the screen than on top.
Who with the what sides now?
@cookie monster
I don't know what to tell you, but that's a crock.
Cookie monster. Sounds like he sent you his bad system, maybe. Maybe it got kicked around really good in transit and did arrive broken. In the end, ebay says the seller is responsible to insure safe delivery of the item, whether returns are offered or not.
If it truly arrived damaged, your on the hook. It sucks, it is what it is though. If you don't have insurance your at the mercy of the knockaround guys.
If he simply took advantage of ebay's lenient policy and returned his own broken one - and kept yours, that sucks even worse. Again though, it is what it is - these are the reasons many of us don't sell on ebay.
One thing you can do is call customer support - let them know you are upset with the decision and you believe this person is fraudulent. They won't reverse the case, but they will put it on his account that a seller believes they were a victim of fraud. It is calls like that that help ebay solve the "tough" cases, so make the call.
For the future - record serial numbers and take photos of items you are shipping in case ebay forces a return. If no serial number available, find another way to clearly mark it and take photos for your records.
YoshiEgg25 wrote:Kaboom was actually meant to be drop-down like Avalanche but the 2600 hardware was more suited to have the boulders on the side of the screen than on top.
Who with the what sides now?
Oh whoops. Was confusing it with something else.
I'll just quote AtariAge.
AtariAge wrote:
Activision programmer Larry Kaplan originally wanted to port Dennis Koble's Atari coinop game Avalanche to the Atari 2600. But the problem was that in Avalanche all the boulders are lined up at the top which is difficult to accomplish on the 2600, hence the shift to the Mad Bomber. David Crane actually coded the overlaid sprites for the Mad Bomber himself. Although Avalanche failed in the arcades, the gameplay is quite similar to Kaboom!, and so the success of Kaboom! helps to vindicate Dennis' efforts in retrospect.
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mjmjr25 wrote:Cookie monster. Sounds like he sent you his bad system, maybe. Maybe it got kicked around really good in transit and did arrive broken. In the end, ebay says the seller is responsible to insure safe delivery of the item, whether returns are offered or not.
If it truly arrived damaged, your on the hook. It sucks, it is what it is though. If you don't have insurance your at the mercy of the knockaround guys.
If he simply took advantage of ebay's lenient policy and returned his own broken one - and kept yours, that sucks even worse. Again though, it is what it is - these are the reasons many of us don't sell on ebay.
One thing you can do is call customer support - let them know you are upset with the decision and you believe this person is fraudulent. They won't reverse the case, but they will put it on his account that a seller believes they were a victim of fraud. It is calls like that that help ebay solve the "tough" cases, so make the call.
For the future - record serial numbers and take photos of items you are shipping in case ebay forces a return. If no serial number available, find another way to clearly mark it and take photos for your records.
If this virtual boy is in as bad shape as you've said, you might be able to sway ebay by taking pictures of it and comparing it to your original auction picture. It's a long shot, because obviously they could say that one of the pics isn't real etc., but it's probably your best chance.
Smile: It's snowing right now and I'm off from work. I love the snow.
Frown: So ironic, it hurts. I decided not to try and do anything for New Years because it's too hard to get every one together and it always ends up snowing so people can't make it. So I decided to have people over tonight, and it figures, it snows! It's suppose to stop soon, and it might turn into rain and clean the roads up a little, so hopefully the weather wont effect my plans.
