Random Rants

[mankarat]

Because i'm not home yet.. I make sure to pust my IH reign once i landed home today..:)

[ADDIC]

I just realized I lost my Persol 2747 sunglasses  i feel like crap!

ive had close calls (forgot them at work) but now theyre gone forever. i hate how i always lose shit.

i really dont feel like shelling out $150 for another pair 

[Beatle]

that's why I could never get myself to buy a pair of decent sunglasses, I loose them all the time - or sit on them..

[Max Power]

I personally hate sunglasses. It freaks me out when I talk to someone and don't know if he's paying attention to the brilliant stuff I'm telling him/her

[deadendpro]

i feel like i should stop focusing on small details in my papers for school, it eats up too much of my allotted word count.

[Finn666]

^same here…need to get my seminar paper ready till tomorrow! 

[Chris]

It's 2:30 in the morning, my wife has been asleep for hours and I'm exhausted.  My 3 year old son, however, is wide awake and refuses to stay in bed.  I may have to shoot him.

That's my IH coaster he's playing with, by the way.  I'm fully expecting him to toss it out our 14th floor window, because he's just that evil.

[madmonday]

i luv it chris

**nothing like knowing your children, hahahahahahaha

[Beatle]

lol, hang in there…

[Giles]

We have a had a total of USD3,000 of chargebacks from Malaysia and Indonesia in the last month.  I'm seriously considering only shipping to people there who we "know".  A chargeback is basically fraudulent use of a credit card or PayPal.  In every case, we have followed the advice we have been given, but we have still been stiffed.

I am in a VERY bad mood…................

[injunjack]

now thats seriously bad shit 

[Geo]

+1 . . . sad to say if tough measures are needed then tough measure should be taken

[Giles]

And seriously, I would cut off my right bollock to find an alternative to those faceless feckers at PayPal.  On USD2,400 of these frauds, they told me that they believed it was OK to ship.  Guess what, when I tell them to go back and listen the the taped telephone calls, F all happens…................

[rocket]

totally can understand you, I had those problems in the past as well. Until to a point when I told them in a very direct way, that they either find a solution to protect my business in proper way, or that I will A. no longer accepted any payments through them and B. take massive legal actions against them (favored-crime activity, etc) … surprisingly after those launched threads  ;), all further fraud attempts were voted in my favor. And since around 2 years they are no more than like 1-2 attempts throughout a year and I get some k's in...

and if I have a bad feeling by a order I just cancell it or tell the customer that due security reasons I will only accept a Western Union payment from him...

[Giles]

can you remember which department you spoke to?

[jacoavlu]

Holy shit. That sucks.
Paypal has a headquarters a few miles from my house…
Want me to go leave a bag of flaming shit on their doorstep?

[Giles]

It'd make me feel a whole ot better, but not sure it would be a long term solution…..........

[jacoavlu]

So in this situation is the address you ship the stuff to "verified"? Or maybe that only applies to the US?

[gollotti]

Giles - shouldn't you be protected since you mail packages for signature approval/tracking?

[Giles]

That helps (apparently), but has made no difference.  In each of the 3 cases, I have a signature.

Two of the scams were to addresses in The US.  The items I shipped have subsequently turned up on Indonesian forums at well below retail.

The latest one was shipped to Malaysia.  The message I got from Paypal with the original order was to get verification of address.  I did, and guess what the effing reversal happened anyway (and yes it was signed for)…...