Post #86587 by MachTiki on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 11:35 AM

I've been doing some shopping on ebay for awhile now and never had a problem... Until yesterday.

I know most of us have had this happen, but the story was kind of funny so I thought I'd share. A month ago I bid on a set of 4 Harvey's Lake Tahoe tumblers. I thought that these would be perfect for everyday use and they were going for $7.99 for the set, so I bid, won the item and sent off my check. Two weeks later the seller e-mails me that he miscalculated the shipping by $1.53 and could I send the money. Hmmmmm, shady I thought, but the original S&H was only $5, so why not. He actually waited for the second check to clear before shipping the mug.

This bring us to what happened yesterday. My wife calls me at work and jokingly asks why I ordered a box of broken glass from Washington? Arrrgh, it finally happened. Guess I'm glad that this is the first time. So anyway, I get home to open the box, but before I even open it, I can smell smoke. What I mean to say is; this box smelled like the seller smoked about 3 packs of cigarettes and exhaled every one of them directly into the box before sealing it. After removing the box from the house (to avoid fumigation costs), I opened it. 2 of the 4 mugs survived, which is surprising considering that all that was in the box beside the mugs was litterally a handful of shredded newspaper. I have no idea how the other 2 ever made it?

I e-mailed the seller and hopefully he can tear himself away from his smokes long enough to reply.

Bottom line... no big deal. I guess I just needed to vent.