hello everybody
this is an open email to all Mopo members, including abe, who is a Mopo member
and the subject of this email.
A few months ago, I bought a pressbook from him. It was incomplete, I told him
so, he asked me to send it back. There was at the same time another pressbook
I had bid on, but someone else had won it.
A few weeks later, I got an ebay second chance offer of that pressbook. I will
freely admit that I did not notice the fine print, buried at the bottom of the
page, in which the pressbook was recatalogued. This time, abe admitted that
basically the entire pressbook was missing except for its covers and maybe two
pages of text. I incorrectly thought that I was being given a second chance
offer on the item originally offered, which was complete.
When I received the pressbook, I was appalled at its condition, so I wrote to
abe and asked for a refund. He told me that I could return this pressbook back
for a refund, but that I would have to pay for the cost of shipping it back,
basically that it was my fault because I did not read the fine print.
Considering what a piece of junk this pathetic torso of a pressbook I had
bought, I reluctantly ate the cost of shipping it back to him.
In the last few days, we received another shipment of pressbooks from him. A
staff member logged them in and left him positive feedback. Finally, today, as
I looked at them more carefully, I discovered the following, which I had bought:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260182667919&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=016
The description says 14 pages, no cuts or clippings. Once you actually look at
the pressbook, you can clearly see that the final page is p.16 and that pages
5-6 are missing.
If he went to the trouble to count the number of pages, then how could he have
missed the fact that two whole pages were not there?
The pressbook is very large and must be sent flat. If I pay a staff member to
take it to the post office, I could save a few dollars over UPS ground, but
then I have to pay someone to stand in a long holiday line.
Just to get back my miserable $27.89. It will also require some expensive flat
cardboard, since I will send nothing, even a returned item like this, in a
crappy, poorly wrapped package.
As I write this, another Mopo member and friend wrote to me that he had bought
last week, also from abe, a pressbook from American in Paris, catalogued as
complete, but, when he received it, it was seriously cut up and not complete at
all.
Abe, I really think that you should get your act together! Enough is enough.
You are a professional not an amateur and this kind of carelessness is just
simply bad for your reputation and bad for the hobby in general.
Walter Reuben
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