Refund? Why?

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
07/15/2020 at 13:17 • Filed to: None

I ordered some parts online to the tune of $119, which included a ridiculous $25 for shipping (which wasn’t disclosed until after the order was complete), but found out that I didn’t need them thanks to members of this forum.

I immediately canceled the order and received an email from the seller the next day confirming that the order was canceled. What I didn’t get was my money returned to me. My credit union shows that PayPal was paid, and PayPal said that the vendor was paid, yet here I am with a canceled order and a wallet that’s $119 lighter . With any luck they’ll respond to my email but in the mean time I wait...

DISCUSSION (12)

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/15/2020 at 13:36

Call your bank and request the charge cancelled. It’s likely just pending somewhere.

Just Jeepin' > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/15/2020 at 13:40

When I was a wee lad of 23(ish), I ordered a new PC through PC Shopper , which for the sake of all the whippersnappers around here was basically a giant phone-book (shit, you don’t know what that is either...) ok, a several-pound magazine with lots and lots and lots and lots of ads from computer sellers.

I didn’t have a credit card, so I gave money to a friend to use his debit card. Weeks passed, and no computer; I’d call every now and then, and they’d tell me it was going to be on its way soon, but eventually the phone line was just busy 24 hours a day.

I don’t remember how I found this out, but apparently the manager absconded with the money I and all of the other impatient customers had sent in.

Thankfully, the owner of the company was a standup guy (or desperately didn’t want the inevitable lawsuits) and paid me back even without any documentation on their end. What a shit show.

I later discovered that a guy I knew locally had started up a Linux PC company, so I ordered a tower from them instead. Went to a house in the suburbs to help them install Debian, since they had it on their list of supported operating systems but had never actually done it before.

Nick Has an Exocet > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/15/2020 at 13:43

1) Dispute with paypal.

2) Dispute with credit card if 1 doesn’t work.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Nick Has an Exocet
07/15/2020 at 14:07

3) Determine coordinates for potential Exocet strike

4) Advise seller of 30 minute launch window

Thomas Donohue > Just Jeepin'
07/15/2020 at 14:11

PC Shopper, PC Magazine, PC’s Limited (Michael Dell selling PCs from his dorm room).

Those were the days.

Just Jeepin' > Thomas Donohue
07/15/2020 at 14:11

They were definitely days.

wkiernan > Just Jeepin'
07/15/2020 at 14:36

I bought my first IBM PC compatible from an ad in Computer Shopper Magazine in 1987 or so. It was a 10 MHz 286, and for $479 I bought a 40 MB hard drive to go with it (against the recommendation of one of my co-workers, who told me “Why spend all that money instead of getting a 20 MB drive? You’ll never use more than 20 MB.”

Once I upgraded it to a whopping one megabyte of RAM I was able to run WordPerfect and AutoCAD on it. A modern word processor on my current 3 GHz I5 box is a somewhat quicke r, but I don’t get work done in Civil3D 2018 significantly faster than in Release 9 on the 286.

Just Jeepin' > wkiernan
07/15/2020 at 14:41

I still remember my first 4MB upgrade on my tower. Seemed like I had enough memory to do anything.

A couple of years later the first technical task at my first IT job was installing 32MB of RAM into a Sp arcserver. I’m pretty sure that memory cost more than my salary; hearing it grind into place was not good for my mental health.

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > Just Jeepin'
07/15/2020 at 15:09

Wow. PC Shopper. Haven’t thought about that in forever.

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/15/2020 at 15:22

Give it some time. I had a seller cancel a large eBay purchase, and it took about three days for the credit to show up.

PartyPooper2012 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/15/2020 at 15:27

I ordered something on ebay... paypal company. Product was crap. Seller was giving me lots of lip about what I should do to fix it. I called paypal and they issued a refund. I sent back the product and while seller was not happy, i got my money back

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > wkiernan
07/15/2020 at 19:09

My first computer was a PC compatible with an AMD 386DX-40 with 4mb RAM, 120mb Kalok IDE hard drive, 1.44" floppy drive, an ATI 3d XPression graphics card and a 14" Goldstar monitor.

With the 4mb RAM, graphics and that CPU, I could run almost anything at the time!

Though for bragging rights at the time, you would get a 486DX with a 3dfx Voodoo graphics card for the absolute BEST performance.