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Yeah, the original auction made no mention of Italy, I found outafter I bought-it-now and it came out after the second email from her.  Theoriginal auction said flat $20 US shipping fee which quickly turned into $100minimum. (I’m guessing that a 20 pound box from Italy to the USA might bearound $100 give or take so it wasn’t an outrageous amount but . . . . )

 

I said I was concerned with all of the changes and asked forsome sort of reassurances. She got mad about that and suggested canceling theauction if I was going to take so long to pay.  I suggested we could usean escrow service and she got madder and suggested a cancelation again.  Ithought about it for a while but decided to bail cuz I can’t afford to losethat much money on a gamble. Then she got even madder because I had wasted somuch of her time.  There was no mention of number of days payment wasneeded by on the auction either. All of this took place with in less than 40hours after I clicked buy-it-now! ;-/

 

Maybe she’s just a particularly frantic impatient personand I’ve been lied to and burned too many times to move quickly onsomething like this and I’m overly cautious . . . .

 

I did have it in mind to contact Paul to see if he knew her atleast as a customer (thanks by the way Paul for the response) but it was all seemingto be going bad so fast that I didn’t want the stress anymore. Modularsynthesizers should be fun-full, not painful! ;-)

 

I actually had missed the fact that the location said “London,United Kingdom” when I first saw the add. I was doing a quick check fromwork and could only spend a few minutes. I saw the auction and almost saidaloud “HOLY CRAP!!!”  I added up conservatively estimatedprices and it seemed that pile of modules would sell for maybe 2 to 3 timeswhat the asking price was ($850 + $20 shipping!) I didn’t actually wantor need all of them at this time but I figured I could sell the kits I didn’tneed (or build them and sell them and possibly end up breaking even!)  I knewit wouldn’t last so I quickly checked some essentials and since it was inUS Dollars and only ships to the US, I assumed it was in the US. (my bad) PayPalwas accepted and there had been buying or selling activity in both April andAugust so I thought, I MUST HAVE IT!    Anyway, I still think it’sodd that someone would only sell to a foreign country and not their own orneighboring countries. I went back and checked her most recent transaction moreclosely and that was for a synth she bought from a seller in Canada that alsohas a fairly low number of transactions and that auction was for sale only tothe US!    

 

So . . . there was this Canadian shipping only to the USA that endsup selling to a buyer in Italy that is also selling something and only shippingto the USA but states in the auction they are in the UK . . . .

 

Plus PayPal was showing they were only going to protect me up to$200 . . . .

 

Was I being overly paranoid?? ;-)

 

Sorry to ramble on about this. It was a pretty big emotionalride and I had to get it off my chest. Thanks for the free therapy everyone! J

 

John L Rice

 

 

I'm nervous right away with only 10 feedbacks, userregestered in the UK, but says he lives in Italy.

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