A little backstory.
I placed an order via PayPal on April 6th of this year, and the money went through on the same day. For the record, I’m a minor (and have heard that this entitles me to withdraw from any transaction at any time, but I haven’t seen it cited anywhere). As of today, the order has not arrived and I have not had any indication that it will arrive anytime soon.
I was told to allow “four to eight weeks” for delivery. As of tomorrow it will have been three months.
This guy (it’s a one-man business) has made zero attempt to contact me. I have managed to contact him twice (once to change the shipping address when it became apparent that he didn’t intend to deliver before I left school for the summer, once via a phone number I had to look up on his domain registration information, as it wasn’t posted on the web site :rolleyes: ). When I called, he assured me that the order would be shipped priority mail some time in the next week. Since then, it’s been two weeks. Methinks it ain’t getting here. He’s whined about a sudden rush of orders and being a one-man business, so tough, poor baby, but I don’t really care. He was under contract to deliver a full month ago, and as far as I’m concerned, it was HIS job to contact ME when there was a delay, not the other way around. (I’ve given him two phone numbers, both of which have voice mail, three e-mail addresses, three IM screen names, and a street address. He still doesn’t bother to get ahold of me. Ever.)
So. Legally, what can I do about this? At what point does this become out-and-out fraud? I’m still hoping that somehow this will go through, since it’s the perfect birthday gift for a good friend (the only reason I’ve waited this long), but I can’t afford to have $110 vanish into thin air. (And no, I can’t just order from someone else – he has the rights to this particular movie replica, although a Japanese company will be manufacturing a $500 version soon, yeowch.)
Frustrated and rantish, but hopefully one of you fine folks can help me plan a course of action.