Because this is the third time in a row and the fourth if we include a good
friend of mine and all my polite private emails about this have not changed a
thing.
W
----- Original Message -----
From: lobby card invasion
To: Walter Reuben ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] problem
Walter, why didn't you address Abe in private. From your description it does
not appear that Abe was being difficult, why grill him publically?
Zeev
----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Reuben
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:02 PM
Subject: [MOPO] problem
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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