How History Is Lost....And How We Keep Working To Save The Rest

[morgandawn]

 Ugh, had my first really unpleasant experience with eBay purchasing. I had just placed a bid on several Beauty & The Beast fanzines and even more importantly an incredibly rare collection of Beauty & The Beast convention fan videos. 

 

Earlier in the week, I had purchased  a significant number of fanzines from the seller who claimed to offer combined shipping. But when I checked out this time yesterday, the combined shipping offer was not available. I contacted them, and they explained to me I had to cancel the order , and then  resubmit.

 

 The good news is that I did get my full refund, the seller relisted, and I repurchased it. But once again, the option for combined shipping was not available. In the hours during which we were working together to figure out why it was  happening, the Beauty & The Beast DVDs were sold to somebody else. Technically, this was within her rights, and I'm not out any money.

 

 I am now waiting nervously to find out whether the other items I purchased 

earlier in the week will actually arrive. Her shipping tracking numbers seem to be off, and there are some items that I did purchase that do not have any associated tracking numbers. I'm fairly confident that I'll be able to get a refund if they do not arrive, but lesson learned. Once I receive the items and it is safe. I'll leave an appropriate review

 

 The saddest part of this, is that I had planned to donate the Beauty & The Beast convention DVDs to the Treasure Chambers historical aarchive, a group of dedicated fans who have been doing amazing work preserving their fandom's history

 

Check out their work

https://treasurechambers.com/TCBBUniverse.html

Comments

[ride_4ever]

*commiserates on this unpleasant experience and thanks you for all you do for fandom*

And wow, that Treasure Chambers Archive is a major work indeed of a fandom's history!

[amedia]

That's a damn shame. I realize it was, technically, the seller's right, but while she was in the middle of negotiating with you??? That's not classy.

I hope another set turns up and the archive is able to get them. Archiving fandom is such an important goal.

[morgandawn]

It certainly cost her a shitload of additional sales. I had a lot already lined up to purchase but we will not be moving forward. On the other hand, at the low prices she's offering, she might find takers

[rivkat]

Sorry about that! Don't give up hope re: tracking numbers--eBay sometimes fails to add them when you have multiple purchases from a single seller and only assigns a single tracking number to one of your purchases and none to the others when they're all in the same box. I'm not saying it is surely going to be ok but there is a non-screw-up possibility.

[oracne]

Agh. I hope the rest of the items work out.