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Noah
to Ralph
Oct 21 (2 days ago)
hi. i received this book today. however, it was listed as a hardcover and you sent me a paperback.
noah
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Ralph
to me
Oct 21 (2 days ago)
Fist I can't believe it got there so fast. second,
AHHHHHHHHHHHH1 I was listing so many books I guess i
got dizzy.Sorry about that. What do you want me to
do? You want to return it and I'll reimbust you for
the postage. I guess that is the only this I could do
besides a full refund. My first 2 sales asfter a
hiatus and both are disasters. The other I lised as
new, but it was used. I'm waiting to hear from her.
Anyway I have to get to work. My apologies.
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Noah
to Ralph
Oct 21 (2 days ago)
hey. i actually would really like a refund. i could send it back if you really wanted, but i'd rather not have to pack this up and mail it back if i don't have to...
let me know.
noah
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Ralph
to me
Oct 22 (1 day ago)
I just checked the post for that particular book. I
did not state that it was a hard cover. I used the
ISBN # and it posts the description. But if I went
there I would be trying to pass the blame and I should
have double checked it. But after posting so many
book, with more to follow, and rushing to do other
things I let it slip. So in the end it was my
fault. Again my apologies.
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Noah
to Ralph
Oct 22 (1 day ago)
i understand how it happened. is that a yes on the refund, then?
thanks.
noah
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Ralph
to me
6:37 pm (49 minutes ago)
I am sure the little refund is a big deal for
you.Personally, I cannot be bothered, BUT I am going
to find out why that Book was listed as the hardcover
edition.I find it hard to believe there was a hard
cover of that book. If a hard cover exists I will send
you the refund. I can't believe I am doing this for
$4. Maybe I should consider selling on Amazon, Amazon
has a better class of people than eBASY. I don't even
shop on eBAY. It's a total waste of time.
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Ralph Conforti
to me
7:09 pm (17 minutes ago)
Are you sure a hardcover exists because I do think so.
The reason the softcover edition stated hardcover is
because the publishers want the readers to know there
was no hardcover.I will check Borders or something.
They have access to all that information. In the
meantime, next time you go to the post office to buy
stamps, or whatever, or does your mommy do that for
you, put the book in a manilla envelope and send it
back media mail. Maybe if you whine enoughy Mommy or
daddy can take care of that for you too!
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Noah
to Ralph
7:20 pm (5 minutes ago)
hey ralph, since ebay is such a fucking confusing thing for you, i would guess searching Half.com is, too. so here's a link http://search.half.ebay.com/drown_W0QQ to see that Drown was, in fact, printed in hardcover in its first printing in 1996. i have no idea why you're being such a complete dick about this mistake you made. the auction CLEARLY stated HARDCOVER. you did not list it as paperback, and the only reason i bid on it was because it was a hardcover edition. if you can't handle listing things properly, then you should just sell them to a used bookstore.
you are the one who offered me a refund, i just accepted and then you ignored the issue. now you resort to being verbally abusive towards me.
please issue a refund so i don't have to deal with you anymore.
thanks,
noah
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Ralph
to me
9:29 pm (1 hour ago)
Listen junior, actually I deal well with most people,
except maybe whiny yuppi types. Your second to last
email rubbed me the wrong way. Probably if you left
out being so demanding and why you do not like and
are not going to do something you would have received
your money already. Your probably not used to people
saying No to you but I am. When you send me back my
book I will refund your money. Of course, maybe
tomorrow I'll feel different and submit your refund.
Xmas is around the corner. Do you send out gifts to
people? Or does the help do that for you? You could
send it then maybe. Speaking of Xmas, I hope you get
everything you wish for because I could see you
throwing a temper tantrum if you do not.
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Noah
to Ralph
11:03 pm (4 minutes ago)
Mr. Conforti,
Your response to my son Noah's apt email is highly unsatisfactory. You have insulted my family, and you have made assumptions about my own gated community. I am so flustered that I am dictating this to my housekeeper, Maria, right now. Noah Jr. is upset and shaking like a leaf. This is a bloody outrage! It is now 10pm and I should have been asleep hours ago, yet I am up responding to your wickedness. One simple clarification was all that he requested: "is that a yes to a refund, then?" You, Ralph, then sent two emails denying the existence of a hardcover edition of Junot Diaz's Drown. Let me tell you something, Junior: I have been in the book game for many years, and books are always printed in hardcover before a paperback is issued. You would have had to have been raised by a pack of wolves not to know that! You call yourself an eBay seller, decorated with a blue star. HA! I remember when a blue star wouldn't have been placed upon someone from a foreign country, but look now, they are giving them away like Cracker Jack prizes. Foolishness!
Ralph, I am at my wits end. I hereby challenge you to an old fashioned duel on the grounds of my estate. I have cleared some room in my schedule for Sunday in the third week of November. I will have you flown down from San Francisco on the morning of the duel, which will commence at 12pm and I hope that you will abide like the gentleman you may be, but have not shown yourself to be as of yet. I also hope that whatever fast food restaurant you work at to have to supplement your income by selling sham books on eBay will understand if you do not return to work on the subsequent Monday after being stabbed through the heart like a jackal, receiving your well-deserved punishment for all general eBay crookery!
The best to you, good sir!
Mr. Noah Hollis Green III
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Ralph
to me
5:02 pm
You're too funny! Well at least YOU have a sense of
hunor. I was all set to send yur son his refund,
actually I would have done it yesterday, but my
computer is on the blink and I have not be online for
the last day and a half. Now that you promise to kill
me, I am flattered incidentally, I will need the extra
$5 for my hospital bill. You know the hospiatl, I'm
sure, it is called, GENERAL HOSPITAL, sir.
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Ralph
to me
5:04 pm
By the way, thanks for the laugh. Actually I was
feeling kind of bad about the way I wrote to Noah, Jr.
because he is right and I was wrong. Now I don't care.
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Noah
to Ralph
7:18 pm
My stars, Ralph, you are the most indecisive man on Earth! How do you ever manage to get out of bed in the morning to send incorrectly listed books to people? And of course Noah Jr. is right about getting a refund! The Green Family tree is filled with brave warriors and rhetoriticians. It is good to see you are beginning to come around. I took the day off of work to tend to his bedside today, as he has not yet recovered from your nefarious email attack. I actually began to read Drown to him from the paperback, but I got up to answer the phone and came back and accidentally sat down upon it, bending the cover and mangling the pages into some sort of ghastly ugliness. I believe this to be some sort of manufacturing defect that you, the seller, are responsible for. I, personally, have never owned a paperback book before, but I am sure, nonetheless, that it should not bend so damn easily. My gentle bottom is often compared that of a baby's alabaster tush, or a sun dried Egyptian cotton towel, so I'm sure that it had less to do with the book being ruined than of your trying to pass off an inferior product to an unsuspecting bidder.
Let me put it this way, Ralph: Issue a refund of $4 to my son without any further indecisiveness, or prepare to suffer a great deal. I need only make one phone call and I can have you thrown off the deck of any yacht harbored anywhere along the entire western Pacific coastline.
As of now, the duel stands. I am sure that you will need to borrow a sword, too. Let it be known, here and now, that I do not look down on you because of that, and will have one sharpened and ready for you to use on the morning of the duel. However, I can assure you that my sword will be the only sword to taste the sweet red of poisonous blood, come that November noon.
Signed!
Noah Hollis Green III