Ebay grief. Again.

*sigh*

Why do I always have trouble with ebay? Grrrr.

Seriously, I don't buy that much from ebay sellers.. but when I do, it seems like half the transactions I make go wrong.
This time, it's a SCSI card I purchased for about 15 pounds. It simply hasn't arrived after 10 days, and the seller hasn't responded to emails or voicemail enquiring about it, for four days.

He actually has a decent feedback rating, appears to speak English competently, and his other recent auctions look normal. No warning bells went off.. So, I'm surprised that this transaction appears to have gone wrong. Oh well, have opened a Paypal dispute, so maybe that'll get his attention.

Meh. I'd have just bought one new, except that new Adaptec cards are so unreasonably expensive.

Weekend update

So, the weekend was good, albeit tiring.
I think I already wrote about Synthetic Culture.. Expensive crap drinks, cheesy music, but good company.
It seems like an awful lot of money to spend, just to drink over carbonated Stella and sit on astroturf with cigerette burns.
Ho hum.

Saturday night was much nicer; We treked out to Walthamstow Marshes, past an "Advanced Water treatment" plant, and finally at the end of the road, came to a park, in the middle of which was the OCB party in full swing.
Quite a large crowd, who were friendly enough, but noticeably different from the sort who frequent the more trancey outdoor doofs. Ran into Kira and co there, who I haven't seen in a very long time. Music was meant to be varied, but ended up seeming like non-stop house and tech-house, which isn't my favourite. Oh well.
Was nice to sit around with friends in a nice location; and thanks to James and Alex for bringing along some nice Pinot Noir :)

Didn't get up to too much on Sunday.. slept away a lot of the day, then finally dropped into the Alwyne that evening with Kate and Michelle for a couple of Frambozenbiers and some food.

I think I'm going to try and have a quiet weekend next week.. although Venetian Snares are playing on friday..