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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: nickbuol on August 09, 2005, 04:34:56 pm --- he says that since I was not a previous customer, he is going to charge me $7 for the black trackball (plus shipping, which I knew I would pay anyway)...

I never claimed to be a customer, and never said that I got the white ball from him or anything.

ARGH!!!  Can you sense my frustration???  >:(

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I can't believe that he would just offer to swap the balls for free if you didn't buy from him in the first place (swapping between BYOACers makes sense, but a vendor offering to swap for no gain ?).

Cheers.
88mph:
Well, if he said he would straight up, even steven swap you the ball, no strings attached, he should stick to his word.   

That said, you're still not getting that bad of a deal on the black trackball.  He's selling black trackballs on his site for $15.  If he's willing to do the swap for $7, plus shipping of $5.60 x 2, your grand total is going to be $18.20. 

If you just bought one straight up, it would have cost you $20.60.  The way I see it, you're still saving $2.40.  Are you getting cheated?  No. 

I am however starting to understand why these parts guys get so busy..    ;)

-88mph
ponyboy:
Nickbuol, I will help ease your pain.  I have the following trackball in stock a Happ 56-0300-16.  Please check out the specs on Happ's Web Site.  If this is what you need let me know and I will work something out for you.

Ponyboy
nickbuol:

--- Quote from: AlanS17 on August 09, 2005, 06:33:06 pm ---What to really feel cheated? Here's some food for thought...

It probably would have cost you about that much to flat-out buy a black ball. There would have been less hassle in the transaction, and you would have gotten to keep you white one!

(Do you feel sick in the stomach yet? That's my job!)
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nickbuol:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on August 09, 2005, 06:53:44 pm ---
I can't believe that he would just offer to swap the balls for free if you didn't buy from him in the first place (swapping between BYOACers makes sense, but a vendor offering to swap for no gain ?).

Cheers.

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I thought that it was an awesome deal for me, and figured that I may end up paying something to someone, but when he offered to do it for free (plus shipping) I jumped on it.  I even told him in one of my messages that I had never ordered from him before and I had a lot of questions.  I was asking about several different parts before I even asked about the trackball, and when I did ask about the trackball swap, I had already said "no" to the other parts.  He says that he was confused and since we had emailed back and forth "so much" (about 4 times), he just thought of me as an existing customer.  He did NOT tell me that before, during, or after the agreed "deal" until today, almost 3.5 weeks after first talking to him.

When he finally got around to getting ready to ship to me is when he noticed that my name was not in his "system", even though I gave him my name and address in about my 2nd email after asking about shipping of some of the parts above.

At this point, I don't want to smear this guy's name through the mud.  Things happen, and I have heard some good things about him (exept for being slow) after I started this message thread...  In the big scheme of things, $7 in the middle of what is becoming a $1300+ arcade is no big deal, just the principle of the whole thing.
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