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Lucifersam1
04-13-2004, 10:24 AM
This is crazy...

In November of 2002, I sold a Castlevania 1 cart on ebay and shipped it out promptly after the payment (first class I believe). It was to some kid at an airforce base in Virginia or somewhere. The kid said he never got it, so I refunded his money and he left me a neutral (my only non-positive feedback on ebay -- user Lucifersam1).

Anyway, I receive a phone call the other day from my father (I sent this from my parents house while I was living there after a horrible motorcycle accident), and he says "There is a package that was returned.." I was like "oh $hit," as I had just sent a turbo duo to Richter Belmount around the beginning of April of this year -- I figured I put the wrong address on his package or something.

It turns out that the CV 1 game had been returned in it's original packaging, with a return post mark of April 4th. It only took a year and a half to make it back to me. Ah well. I just thought I would share that, for what it's worth.

p.s. Richter B. received the DUO ok and reports he is enjoying it. I also emailed the buyer of the CV 1 cart and received no reply (I figured I would not -- he prrobably bought another cart elsewhere).


chris

Cmosfm
04-13-2004, 11:03 AM
It all comes down to those damn customs. They will just take packages sometimes, open them, hold them for unprecedented amounts of time, and if they feel the urge to ship it back they will.

I won a large Famicom & Famicom Disk System lot from a guy in Japan once, he had to ship it in 3 different packages via Air Mail...well, one didn't come, we have no idea what happened to it but we were betting that it got snagged by customs. The guy was nice and said if I'd pay shipping he'd ship out another one. I paid shipping and the one I got this time actually had the original box with it! So I was very happy, while it did cost me an extra 35.00 I got the box which made it all worth while.

Anyways, I'm still expecting one day the post office might bring me a super beat up package with that mystery Disk System in it. Wouldn't that kick ass! :D

Lucifersam1
04-13-2004, 11:19 AM
The kicker is, the thing was not open at all. The "pull here" tab oin the PO envelope was not even touched. I am wondering if they held it bacause of the whole anthrax thing maybe?? I wish i had not discarded the envelope so fast. I believe it said that the recipient moved and had not left a forwarding address. So, who knows? At least they returned it eventually :)


chris

portnoyd
04-13-2004, 12:05 PM
Haha, damn. Go USPS! If I were you, I'd dig up the buyer's email, take a pic, and ask him if he wants to buy the game again. :D

dave

lym
04-13-2004, 03:49 PM
Wow thats weird X_x I once heard of someone receiving a letter about 50 years after it was originally posted.

Cmosfm
04-13-2004, 05:07 PM
Wow thats weird X_x I once heard of someone receiving a letter about 50 years after it was originally posted.

You've been watching too much Back To The Future my friend...didn't that happen in part 2?

lym
04-13-2004, 05:18 PM
Wow thats weird X_x I once heard of someone receiving a letter about 50 years after it was originally posted.

You've been watching too much Back To The Future my friend...didn't that happen in part 2?

LOL No it wasn't back to the future it was on the news here in the UK a couple of years ago.

Darth Vader
04-13-2004, 08:50 PM
Remember he said that this was shipped to an air force base, it's quite possible it was lost there for quite a while. APO and FPO addresses are always fun to deal with.


Danny