Tuesday, December 23, 2003
God hates me. The evidence, I believe, is to be found in an e-mail I received from a rather piqued-sounding mother complaining that her son hasn't yet received the Grand Theft Auto 3 Strategy Guide she bought from me at auction last week. Well gee lady, d'ya think that maybe the fact that it's fucking Christmas and the busiest time of the year for the postal service might be a factor in your little boy not receiving his "How to Kill Hookers For Fun and Profit" Game guide within a nanosecond of my having sent it? Sheesh...
Of course, another reason for the delay may be my having to send the guide by media mail. (You see, I had no idea how much it would cost to send an item of that size and weight, so I made a ballpark estimate of around 5 dollars, which is what you'd expect to pay to ship something roughly magazine-sized by Priority Mail. For some reason, the gruff and rather disgruntled postal worker I handed the package off to decided to charge me far and above the five dollars I had originally delegated for the cost of shipping, and since I didn't have any extra money on me at the time (and since this was a piffly, ten dollar item, not something I'd want to soak up the difference in shipping for even if I HAD the money on me at the time,) I opted to send it by the cheaper (and slower) media mail rate instead. And then I got the hell out of there, 'cause the postal worker looked like he was about to well, "go postal" on someone, and I, of course, didn't want to be getting caught in the crossfire. I went home, never thinking that this decision would ever come back to haunt me in any way, (but then, I hadn't taken psychotic mothers into account.)
Why am I mad enough about this situation to devote a full weblog entry to it (when I barely ever take the time out to write about important stuff?) It's because I'm mad. I'm mad because I got busted this ONE time when I decided to play it cheap (and all the other times, when I miscalculated the cost of shipping and decided to eat the difference, did I get e-mail from concerned mothers telling me that they noticed the cost of shipping on their packages was higher than the amount they paid me and would I like to have the difference paid back to me? HELL NO. (Hell, there are times when I miscalculated the amount of shipping in the buyer's favor by over ten dollars, and, to preserve my ebay feedback rating, I willingly ate the difference.) Why couldn't God give me this one time for free? Why?
It's because (as I stated before) He hates me. Of course, I don't blame Him for hating me. I really shouldn't have been selling that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Guide in the first place. It's a reprehensible game with no moral footholds, one which I abhor on every philosophical and artistic level, and yet I was willing to sell a strategy guide for it to a young, impressionable, (and probably underage) buyer because of my own personal greed. Serves me right if something were to go awry with this transaction. (And if Piqued Mother were to haul me into court on charges of mail fraud, I know I'd be eminently deserving of such a fate.)
Wait... what kind of mother would buy for her son a strategy guide for a game which glamorizes crime and contains NC-17 levels of violence and mayhem? Maybe I'm not the ONLY one who should be worrying about the whole "God hating me and smiting me with his wrath" thing...
Sunday, December 21, 2003
My Sailor Moon Eternal Costume didn't sell, so I've relisted it here. Maybe Santa Claus, in lieu of giving me presents this year, (and knowing how desperate I am to get rid of it), will place a bid on it. I'm heartily sick of seeing this constant reminder of my own gullibility and stupidity lying around my house. (Although apparently not sick enough to the point where I'd actually agree to sell it at a loss.) I trust and hope that somewhere out there in this vast world, there's someone who wants a size 9 Sailor Moon Eternal Outfit (and who would wouldn't mind buying it for half it's original value.) And if there isn't...well...it's a Sick Sad World, that's all I can say...
I have a ton of video games and other shit still up for sale as well. Buy somethin' will ya?
