if you’ve ever tut-tutted over the consequences of big-box stores and online retailers overtaking small businesses, you’ll be heartened to hear that some folks have figured out how to bring those old-fashioned mom-n-pop ideas about customer service into the digital age…with the help of a big ol’ corporation called ebay!
while browsing the auction site for some new shades, my pal josh stumbled across one such example — a listing from a florida-based ebayer who goes by the name of whiteblizzard70.
this goes on for several more paragraphs (see for yourself), but i’ll skip to my favorite part — the postscript.
(josh decided not to bid.)
related: top five musical crimes perpetrated by record store customers
extra credit: how do you get out of an ebay auction? [consumerist.com]
P.S. this post reminded me of another note my friend josh told me about a few months back — a piece of reader mail he’d received as an editor at the music mag blender. granted, most readers who take the time to write in to magazines like blender are at least a little bit…off, to say the least. but the last part of this letter — a response to an “ask blender” column about the urban legend that debbie harry of blondie was once abducted by ted bundy — is genuinely spine-chilling. (passive-aggressive? not so much. creepy? um, yes.)
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310 responses so far ↓
#1 mamacita
Gah — I can’t read the Debbie Harry note. Transcription, please? (Pretty please with a cherry on top.)
Jul 27, 2008 at 12:55 am rating: +2
#2 TuesdayPillow
Yeah I am having a hard time. I think he has the word “cunting” in there but I’m not sure.
p.s. love the ebay note. I would buy from that dude in a second.
Jul 27, 2008 at 1:19 am rating: +2
#3 Canthz_B
Whiteblizzard70 is he Anti-Burger King!
Have it my way or not at all, you inbred nincompoops! I’m here to make money, not a good impression!
Jul 27, 2008 at 1:48 am rating: +6
#4 Rulial
Keith Jesperson is a serial killer known for sending notes to the media signed with happy faces.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/07/28/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hunter_Jesperson
Jul 27, 2008 at 1:53 am rating: 0
#5 brad
That’s some awesome customer service. Would love to see someone take him (and everyone else doing it) to task for somehow thinking that they aren’t responsible for items that never get to the customer’s door.
Jul 27, 2008 at 1:56 am rating: +2
#6 Canthz_B
Good to know that serial killers keep an accurate accounting of who was in their car and who was not…I guess.
But do they really have the right to get pissed if someone asks, “Did you give me a ride once and not kill me? Why was I not worthy?”
Jul 27, 2008 at 2:01 am rating: +4
#7 Canthz_B
Ted Bundy broke Debbie Harry’s Heart of Glass!
Jul 27, 2008 at 2:04 am rating: +1
#8 Canthz_B
Whiteblizzard70, Dude you have a 98.4% positive rating! WTF is there to bitch about besides running out of your meds?
Jul 27, 2008 at 2:12 am rating: +4
#9 zombieBlanco
If you have anger management problems, patience deficiencies, problems with common sense, reading skills problems, high lead or mercury levels & other mental or unresolved personal problems that may negatively impact your demeanor and conduct on this site, Welcome to PAN!
Jul 27, 2008 at 2:15 am rating: +37
#10 Canthz_B
The nice guy who volunteers to walk you to your car after work may be a serial killer?
So much for chivalry on my part!
Jul 27, 2008 at 2:22 am rating: +2
#11 gina
damn, someone needs to tell mr. ebay man to clean his nails & take a chill pill or 10.
Jul 27, 2008 at 2:27 am rating: +4
#12 zombieBlanco
Keith Jesperson killed at least eight people.
Let’s not dishonour the victims, their families and ourselves by commenting on a note that is not appropriate for this site.
Jul 27, 2008 at 2:34 am rating: +13
#13 Sarah
