watch out! (part ii of a cautionary tale)

so, time to look back at our cheap chinese time piece purchase…

…as i’d previously mentioned.

so, in that last bit i talk about how the cp tracking number had finally updated after a few days so maybe this was legit, which i believe i followed that word with a “?” in the original bit, as ya should under the circumstances. but that was after a few days, whereas this morning we have gone a solid week with zero movement on the tracking sites i’d been using…

so i think it’s safe to say it’s a dead issue. now i have to go about the steps to try and get the charge reversed. they get really fussy when you DID in fact authorize the charge yourself, but you got fucked. i remember back in my dell days a guy sent a laptop to a buddy of mine to “fix” because he had run out of warranty on it so he couldn’t send it to tech support. he had bought it for his kid, and part of the low price point that made it attractive was they bottomed out the service package to something obscenely low, like thirty days. so yeah, you save $200 on the notebook, but after a month any tech support would cost you out of pocket. he complained to amex that we weren’t allowing him to return it, they gave him a full refund, and let him still keep the notebook.

where’s THAT level of service nowadays?

i didn’t purchase this with my amex, but rather my apple card online with the virtual number. as i stated in the past one, it was technically three charges, as it went through first as a double, that was flagged, and finally a real one that i pushed through. all for around forty-six bucks each.

i mean, i guess it COULD still be on the way as it leaves off with “to the transit post office” but the number as of this morning still doesn’t work in the apps for FedEx, UPS, or the USPS so i’m pretty sure i got straight fucked here.