Friday, 27 June 2008

Won and Lost

I started the day at the computer. First I used the ebay system to paypal to a seller to initiate a dispute concerning my purchase of a camera body. The camera body was to have been now superceded Nikon 40X. It came ot last August and was replace in January by the D60. It would have taken me up to 10 megapixels. I started the purchase exactly a month ago. I saw it on ebay. It was £90. I thought that I would try a bid. Each time I did I was automatically outbid by £2. Gradually the bidding changed to steps of £5. Twenty minutes before bidding ended and we were due to go to the dance I thought that I would have a final try of £160. I nipped out of the dance at the interval to find that I had won the bid. Then trouble began. My bank blocked the transfer of funds. This took three weeks to sort out. And last Friday I received the news that my seller had received the funds. On Monday I received an email to say that the camera was on the way. On Tuesday I excitedly opened the package. It took some time to realise that it was the the wrong camera. Three days later I received the news that my money would be refunded and the camera collected. Back to square one.

I also emailed my publication to Grapevine. And the afternoon I shot over to pay the bill.

After emailing I went the allotment to pick black currents and do quick weed. I then went Jubilee House Christian School to transfer data from flash drive. Most of the school were at Sutton-on-Sea. I returned through the allotments, completed emails and had lunch before working on blog related issues and printing some postcards for sale at the dance tonight.

No comments: