I am not going to talk about
politics today, even though the primaries for governor were held yesterday and
concluded, at least in New York State, with the same old, same old, results.
New York Stators are the first to complain about everything under the sun with the politicians that they vote into office, but they do nothing to remove these people from office when they have the chance.
They did it again yesterday, when voters went for the sort-of-incumbent Kathy Hocul—only in office because of the indiscretions of her former boss, Andrew Cuomo—as the Democrats' candidate for governor.
New York Staters are known to ignorantly and stupidly vote for party over candidate, and since the vast majority of registered voters are Democrats in the state, Hochul—“Miss See No Evil, Hear No Evil”—is almost a shoo-in to get into the governor’s position on her own merits come November, voted in by the same people who constantly complain about everything she stands for, including bail reform, and what it is dong to New York neighborhoods.
On the other side of the aisle you have Rep. Lee Zelda, who won the Republican primary, and I just can’t see people galvanizing behind him, since he is not well known at all outside of Long island.
In my mind, the best candidate for the job was Tom Suozzi, but he had as much chance of winning the primary against Hochul as I did, so …
Fuggedaboudit.
I just wrote a few paragraphs about politics when I said I wouldn’t, but I guess my white lie will pass.
What else is happening today that is worth writing about?
I have had some interesting dealings with eBay lately.
Let me tell you about them.
I ordered a DVD for my son a few weeks back, in anticipation of our vacation.
He keeps himself busy in the back seat by watching movie after movie on a portable DVD player, and I bought for him a few videos to keep him occupied.
But one that I ordered from eBay never came, and after a few weeks, I decided to contact the seller to find out what was going on.
The seller, by eBay rules, is supposed to reply to my messages to him or her, but after three tries, the seller did not respond, so I contacted eBay directly on the matter.
I got my money back, which was fine, but I finally got a message back from the seller, who said the DVD had been lost in transit, and that he had another copy of the DVD to sell to me since I wanted the movie so much.
Fuggedaboudit.
Then I had another recent experience with eBay while using a gift card my son got me for Father’s Day.
I ordered a few records with the card, and they all came to me pretty quickly … except one.
That one I finally got on Monday, but alas, the seller sent me the wrong record!
I contacted the seller, who was very contrite in his reply, stating that I could keep the record that was sent to me—I have it already, by the way—and that he would send out the record I had originally ordered pronto.
He told me that he would contact me yesterday about it, “but if you don’t hear from me, contact me to remind me” …
Which, of course, was the way it happened.
The seller sent me back a message stating,, “Thanks for contacting me. I have searched through my inventory, and I guess I don’t have the record you ordered … but you can replace it with another record from my store.”
Classic bait and switch, wouldn’t you say? Give me something I didn’t order that the seller probably could not get rid of, and then try to get me to order something else from him, perhaps at a higher cost—and advertising items that you don’t have, what is that all about anyway?
New York Stators are the first to complain about everything under the sun with the politicians that they vote into office, but they do nothing to remove these people from office when they have the chance.
They did it again yesterday, when voters went for the sort-of-incumbent Kathy Hocul—only in office because of the indiscretions of her former boss, Andrew Cuomo—as the Democrats' candidate for governor.
New York Staters are known to ignorantly and stupidly vote for party over candidate, and since the vast majority of registered voters are Democrats in the state, Hochul—“Miss See No Evil, Hear No Evil”—is almost a shoo-in to get into the governor’s position on her own merits come November, voted in by the same people who constantly complain about everything she stands for, including bail reform, and what it is dong to New York neighborhoods.
On the other side of the aisle you have Rep. Lee Zelda, who won the Republican primary, and I just can’t see people galvanizing behind him, since he is not well known at all outside of Long island.
In my mind, the best candidate for the job was Tom Suozzi, but he had as much chance of winning the primary against Hochul as I did, so …
Fuggedaboudit.
I just wrote a few paragraphs about politics when I said I wouldn’t, but I guess my white lie will pass.
What else is happening today that is worth writing about?
I have had some interesting dealings with eBay lately.
Let me tell you about them.
I ordered a DVD for my son a few weeks back, in anticipation of our vacation.
He keeps himself busy in the back seat by watching movie after movie on a portable DVD player, and I bought for him a few videos to keep him occupied.
But one that I ordered from eBay never came, and after a few weeks, I decided to contact the seller to find out what was going on.
The seller, by eBay rules, is supposed to reply to my messages to him or her, but after three tries, the seller did not respond, so I contacted eBay directly on the matter.
I got my money back, which was fine, but I finally got a message back from the seller, who said the DVD had been lost in transit, and that he had another copy of the DVD to sell to me since I wanted the movie so much.
Fuggedaboudit.
Then I had another recent experience with eBay while using a gift card my son got me for Father’s Day.
I ordered a few records with the card, and they all came to me pretty quickly … except one.
That one I finally got on Monday, but alas, the seller sent me the wrong record!
I contacted the seller, who was very contrite in his reply, stating that I could keep the record that was sent to me—I have it already, by the way—and that he would send out the record I had originally ordered pronto.
He told me that he would contact me yesterday about it, “but if you don’t hear from me, contact me to remind me” …
Which, of course, was the way it happened.
The seller sent me back a message stating,, “Thanks for contacting me. I have searched through my inventory, and I guess I don’t have the record you ordered … but you can replace it with another record from my store.”
Classic bait and switch, wouldn’t you say? Give me something I didn’t order that the seller probably could not get rid of, and then try to get me to order something else from him, perhaps at a higher cost—and advertising items that you don’t have, what is that all about anyway?
Fuggedaboudit.
“No, please give me a refund,” I replied, and the gift card has now been resurrected from the dead with this money on it.
“No, please give me a refund,” I replied, and the gift card has now been resurrected from the dead with this money on it.
I have found that eBay is still the Wild West at times, even though it has improved over the years, the main improvement being buyer protection for those who run into jams, like I did.
But the story isn’t over.
I received one of the records I ordered from another seller yesterday, and as I opened the package to take the record out, I took out what I thought was the record—and once again, it was not the record that I ordered!
In fact, there was no record in the sleeve, simply the cardboard sleeve of another record.
My blood started to boil, but then I took out what was another sleeve—the record I ordered—and I was happy.
The seller simply used an old record sleeve as sort of a protection for the record I ordered.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
Now, aren’t my eBay stories so much more interesting than talking about politics?
And I still have two more items that I am awaiting from eBay … and the end-result of those orders appears to be much more in the air than the outcome of the New York State governor’s race in November.
Will I get my items that I ordered?
Will New York get the governor it deserves as it digs its own grave?
The former I don’t know about … the latter, I am almost sure of.
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