Rant about Ranting

[Beemer]

Yeah, it sucks big time! I belong to a few different forums and I sold a book to one forum member and she paid for it within days. She then wanted to buy some other books I had for sale so I sent them to her last month and never got paid. Sent her an email and she said she'd forgotten and would pay me last week. Then she posts this big sob story about how her and her partner are $30,000 in debt and facing bankruptcy. I figured I wasn't going to get my money anyway so I told her not to bother paying for them. Got an email back saying "hasn't the money come through? I paid it into your account last Thursday. I hope I haven't paid it to the wrong person. They'll be happy if I have - sorry!" Bloody cow! What annoys me the most is that I said the payment would be passed on to the SPCA (as have the proceeds from the other books I've sold), so she's done them out of $20.

[placidfemme]

Well to answer a few questions, no I havn't confronted the person involved... as some of you know, I'm not too good at keeping my temper, and I have a bad way with words... I wouldn't know how to approach the situation without it sounding like I was being aggresive...

"hello, you scratched my rims and I'm pissed... and you didn't gie me what I asked and paid for"... doesn't sound very nice, and if this said person got thier back up at me, I'd just get more angry and nothing would be solved...

I'm just pissed that my bike looks a lot more standard now, and it looks scratched (moreso than normal... yeah yeah I know its a women thing... but I like my bike to look good)...

As mentioned I'm not going to do business with said person again, I doubt he will/could re-paint my rims (for what could be classed as a "few" scratches... but form perfect rims to scratched rims no less), the other problem is sorted and the third and forth problems can only be sorted by buying new parts, which I'd rather pay for somewhere else as I've been informed that the parts won't sell for the same price I brought them for even though I've done less than 200K's since the job was done.

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