I bought a piece of memory for my old laptop on half.com. 64mg, 10 bucks. 2 bucks shipping. Nothing major.
I ordered it Nov 27th. It was due to arrive around Dec 8th. By Dec 14th it still hadn’t arrived so I contacted the seller.
“Hey dude. Whatup with the memory?”*
“Sorry dude. I haven’t shipped it yet. School and stuff. Been busy.”
“BUMMMMMMERS. Well dude, get with the program”
“Ok dude, I’ll ship it tomorrow”
Today, the 18th, there was an envelope in the mail from TX. My wife hands it to me and says “You don’t think that guy was dumb enough to mail the memory in a regular, unpadded, paper envelope?”
You know when you were a kid and you did rubbings with crayons over something like a twig or a leaf or your younger brothers face? I looked at the envelope and noticed a very nice rubbing of a stick of memory.
It came out very nice.
I paid $2 for shipping. The postage on the envelope: .37 cents.
I thought perhaps it will still work. I opened the envelope, carefully straightened the bend from the memory and popped it in the laptop.
“bleeep-bleeep-bleeeeep, BLEEEEEEEEEEP!”
No boot.
What the hell was he thinking? If it arrives damaged he’ll get bad feedback, a returned stick of damaged memory and I’ll get a refund from half.
I guess that’s the problem with places like ebay and half.com. You end up doing business with stupid dildoheaded fuck-nuggets.
*The email exchange wasn’t really in surfer-speak.

