A Moral Dilemma About A Coin Mixup

I think its great that nina decided to share her experience here and ask for advice. It is nice to hear that there are many sellers out there who care about their customers and their products.
Thanks Nina!

You're probably also a more experienced buyer than me, Senex. Like I said elsewhere--walk out of the stores I'm used to with a $20 item on the bottom of your cart that you forgot was there, come back in and go "Oh! I need to pay for this!" and you risk being arrested. One guy here on Black Friday jammed a DVD case into his belt when his grandson was knocked to the floor and reached for the boy--and almost fell on him when a security guard bodyslammed him, in spite of the fact that he could see that there was a three-year-old on the floor in danger of being trampled. (This is part of why I bag my own stuff and never let the cart leave the store with me--I know that no clerk having a bad day will stick something in there just for spite.)

ebay is very different and unfamiliar to me; if you look at my old feedback it's all stuff like textbooks and mass-market CDs. I've never done the mom-n-pop thing before, and didn't know how to proceed. That's why I asked.

What kind of car do you have? $10 oil changes? I probably couldn't get a new oil filter for $10 not to mention the oil.

Thanks nina for sharing your experience and following up with the seller's response. It is good to know there are honest people out there.

Hopefully Senex will be more constructive and thoughtful the next time they post.

You're welcome, Sandman! I invited him to join us, but I get the impression he's not very internet-savvy--he thought I was inviting him to a meetup in Phoenix. I clarified, but didn't get a response, so I suspect we will have to admire (and buy) from afar. On which note, anybody know who the person is on this forum who collects maundy money? He has a piece up for sale and lists the mintage as being under 2000. I wanted to give them a heads-up.


And Senex, honestly, you can't scare me all that much because every time I see your name all I can think is "and in this house lives a man named Senex, with his wife and son. Also in this house lives Pseudolus, slave to the son. Pseudolus is probably my favourite character in the piece, a role of enormous variety and nuance--and, played by an actor of such--well--let me put it this way--I play the part!" It's hard to be scary when your name came out of a Sondheim musical.

. . . this is the part where you tell me it didn't, just wait [blush]

I jest. I don't want to say "I can't take you seriously" because that's not true (I attempt to give some level of credibility even to people with names like xxkAyLaIsMyNaMexx1998), but, y'know . . . every time I see your name there's that momentary smile and "hehhh, Senex. Everybody Ought to Have a Maid."


. . . funny you should mention Sweeney. I can't take that seriously since I saw the movie, either, which is really sad to me because I always said if Johnny Depp and Alan Rickman were ever in a movie together I would die of happiness, and then they were in a movie together and I hated the movie. Rule of thumb, if you want to make a musical into a movie, hand it to someone who doesn't want to make it their personal "statement" on anything.

Ooooh, I bet that'd be better. Johnny did a great job as Sweeney and I loved that he "can't sing" (he actually has a very pleasant voice, in a gravelly Meat-Loaf-meets-Vincent-Price kind of way, but it's not classic Broadway at all), but Helena Bonham Carter was cast in a role too high for her to sing and the bits with Johanna and her boyfriend were so skipped over and disjointed I got rapidly bored. I'll have to see when it's on PBS again!