Neurotech - the weblog of Luke Reeves

Well it was bound to happen I guess. And it was pretty easy to predict if you read my last eBay entry. Yeah, I got fucking scammed.

I’ve been collecting for a while now computer RPGs. I love the boxes and the usually huge manuals that come with them. I’ve got so far Baldur’s Gate 2 plus expansion, Neverwinter Nights and expansions, Morrowind (and expansions!) and Icewind Dale 2. All of them cost less than twenty dollars each, and they’re pretty kickass (excepting Morrowind, haven’t been able to get too into it yet - but I haven’t given up). So anyways, I found Icewind Dale 1 on eBay for a decent price and stupidly order it before reading the fine print. In the fine print is the details “Picture does not match item” and “No boxes or manuals”. That sucks, but hey - at the point I caught that I chided myself for not checking all the details and accepted my loss.

Then the item came. And of course, it’s just the CDs and nothing else. Except they’re burned. And they’re not CDs! For some reason, this guy thinks that Bioware’s “original packaging” is cellophane and DVD-Rs with off-center stickers.

And another painful issue - I paid 4.47 USD for the game and 8.95 USD for shipping. At the time, expecting the box and what not, that was acceptable for me. Then I see on the top of the shipping label that it was sent from Thorn Hill. And the cost of shipping was 6 dollars Canadian. Excellent! Thanks, you bastards. And as I already mentioned they have an “auto-feedback” system, so when I leave them a negative comment they’ll do the same to me.

So I emailed them of course asking for a refund. I get an auto-response back that has a URL to a site that sells thousands of software packages for a penny each! Imagine that! And the best part of the e-mail was this:

Sorry for the incontinence,

THANKS.

Incontinence indeed! Anyways, I’ll wait for their response but I’m leaving negative feedback regardless of the outcome so that other people know what they’re getting. And for the record, the seller had 9505 positive ratings in the last year so I figured I would have been alright.