It says in *bold* letters, UNREGISTERED!!!! (eBay rant)

The BBQ Pit
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I am selling some stuff off on eBay. I was selling some software. An older original version of something, and an upgrade. Both of them. All with serial numbers. All with documentations, boxes, CDs, serial numbers. I explained that the older version would allow the upgrade to work, and they’d be getting both in the sale. Both. Package deal. Older version + upgrade means that the new upgrade will work, free and clear. And they’re getting both. Both. Really, both.

And UNREGISTERED. Okay, the older version was registered by me, but I already called the software company and confirmed that I could transfer the license over to the new owner. The new upgrade is unregistered. I never registered it. No one has ever registered it. Whoever buys it can register it. And I explained that. I wrote, UNREGISTERED. I wrote, YOU CAN REGISTER IT YOURSELF.

I also explained that one can use the software that they buy from me to upgrade to the latest version of this software. Yes, they can. I told them this. In bold lettering.

But most of all, I wrote, (in bold, and also even in italics) that it was UNREGISTERED. They can register it in their own name. I added an extra explanation about its unregistered status at the bottom of the auction, later on.

So what do I get? Emails, asking me, “Can I register this software?” “Do I get the older version of the software too?” “Will the upgrade install on my computer?” “Will I get serial numbers?”

ARGGGHHHH!!! I can understand a few bits of confusion, but seriously, I explained it. How much more can I do? How big and bold does the lettering have to be? It is UNREGISTERED. You get BOTH versions, the old and new. Yes, yes, YES!!! SERIAL NUMBERS! Yes! I wrote that, several times!!!

These people are driving me batty.

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People on eBay are stupid. The most obnoxious are the ones who constantly pester you to tell them what your reserve price is. The reserve is secret, folks. If it wasn’t secret, there wouldn’t be a point to having one.

Then there was the dumbass who demanded that I ship to Bangladesh for the advertised shipping price, despite the fact that the auction said in BIG RED LETTERS that I don’t ship anything outside North America, because it’s such a pain in the ass.

And finally, the idiots who think that because they live within 400 miles of my house, they can demand to forego the shipping cost and pick it up in person. The one and only time I allowed that to happen, I was stuck on the phone for an hour giving the hapless moron directions, which he kept fucking up, to my house. When he got there, he didn’t understand the concept of a “buzzer,” and was thus incapable of entering my apartment building. So no, fuckbag, no one is ever doing a personal pickup ever again. I have shit to do. I don’t care if you live down the street. I’m sending that shit UPS like everything else.

And finally, let us not forget the morons who have to wrap everything in three metric tons of bubblewrap and packing peanuts when they send it to you. Delicate things require careful packing. A newly published, un-special hardcover book does not require six layers of bubble wrap! Hell, Amazon just wraps a piece of fucking cardboard around it and sticks on a label! It works fine!

:pant:

I’m done now.

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Oh yeah…

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Note: The following is an exaggeration, but only slightly.

I haven’t sold alot of things on eBay. Maybe 4 or 5 things in the past 6 months or so. But it never fails, ever time I post something for sale, I get some moron sending me an email that basically says, “Hey, if you end the auction early I’ll let you give me the item, your car, and your house and I won’t charge you anything.” It’s so irritating. How stupid do people think I am? I never respond to those, BTW.

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Yes, SuperNova, eBay people are STUPID!!!

friedo, I feel your pain. Some eBay people are huge pains in the ass. I once sold some software to a small company which insisted that I FedEx it RIGHT NOW, even though I’d made no such offers in my auction. They had such a fit that I did it (they did pay for the Fed Ex shipping). But what a hassle!

Chronos: yes, I’ve had a few of those types too. Amazing sense of entitlement.