Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Oct. 15th, 2003 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockI have just had my first really unpleasant eBay experience. It had to happen eventually, I mean law of averages and all that, but it is still a really shitty way to start the day. See this fuck-tard (and I'm being gracious here) has been spamming my personal email account all morning long (had 3 copies of the same invoice waiting for me this morning when I got here, apparently they've sent one every hour on the hour. Mind you I get in at 8 a.m.), and has sent me two very rude emails trying to make me out to be the idiot here.
Now call me crazy, but usually when one receives an invoice with the "Pay Now" button on it, one should be able to expect that they can use it, yes? And sure enough this person does have an account set up to do just that. However, it's not the right account. They informed me this morning that I a) should've received automated emails from Paypal telling me there was a problem (which I didn't) and b) should have emailed them first as the invoice clearly states. Only, it doesn't say that anywhere on it.
Now I've been an eBay seller in the past and I've worked retail, you expect that customers will sometimes make mistakes or not clearly read all the instructions. It's your job to then be calm and polite, that's part of what being a seller is all about. This person clearly doesn't come from that school of thought, and I'm sorry but spamming me first thing in the morning when I've still got a day and a half to even contact you in the first place seems a bit much.
I will never do business with this person again and I'm really considering leaving nasty feedback. The only thing keeping me from doing it right now is a) I want the item and b) they'll undoubtedly go and leave me nasty feedback and I really don't want that. Ponder...
http://marriageprotectionweek.com
Allow me to quote a bit of Mark Morford 'cause he pretty much sums up my opinion on this rampant stupidity:
This is the BushCo way. This is the neoconservative creed. Invent a bogus threat, inject black smears of fear, hint that something church approved and "family friendly" is in danger and that wee innocent
children and cute puppies are about to be tattooed and/or made to wear lots of leather chaps and eyeliner, and if we don't stand up to the Big Bad Evil, society as we know it will, very literally, crumble...
In fact, much like the church and the concept of "family" and Jenna Bush, marriage needs to be busted wide open. Marriage needs to be allowed to move and progress and dance as the culture moves, as
consciousness progresses, as times and mores change, recognizing along the way that what might have been some toxic nuclear-family ideal in 1953 holds nearly zero relevance today, and in fact only makes us more uptight and rigid and confused...
This is the only way. Evolve or die, honey. Because it's exactly when you try to force-fit love's modern, ever-evolving mutations into archaic, increasingly bitter boxes of ideology and Right wing-approved blandness and sactimony that the culture suffers most. Legislating love
is never the answer. Hey, just ask your neighborhood Catholic priest.
So. Let us redefine this week. Let us claim it right back from the hounds of fearful conservatism. Let us call it "Shut the Hell Up and Get Your Damn Conservative Agenda Out of My Love Life Week." In fact, let us make it a month. A year. An agenda of our own.
Nothing in this world makes me want to go grab a boy/boi or a girl/grrrl, jump over a broomstick with them, adopt a bunch of kids and raise them to run in the woods naked chanting hymns to the old gods, than this kind of neo-con Right-wing fundamentalist Christian bullshit. I got yer repression right here, assholes.
Now call me crazy, but usually when one receives an invoice with the "Pay Now" button on it, one should be able to expect that they can use it, yes? And sure enough this person does have an account set up to do just that. However, it's not the right account. They informed me this morning that I a) should've received automated emails from Paypal telling me there was a problem (which I didn't) and b) should have emailed them first as the invoice clearly states. Only, it doesn't say that anywhere on it.
Now I've been an eBay seller in the past and I've worked retail, you expect that customers will sometimes make mistakes or not clearly read all the instructions. It's your job to then be calm and polite, that's part of what being a seller is all about. This person clearly doesn't come from that school of thought, and I'm sorry but spamming me first thing in the morning when I've still got a day and a half to even contact you in the first place seems a bit much.
I will never do business with this person again and I'm really considering leaving nasty feedback. The only thing keeping me from doing it right now is a) I want the item and b) they'll undoubtedly go and leave me nasty feedback and I really don't want that. Ponder...
http://marriageprotectionweek.com
Allow me to quote a bit of Mark Morford 'cause he pretty much sums up my opinion on this rampant stupidity:
This is the BushCo way. This is the neoconservative creed. Invent a bogus threat, inject black smears of fear, hint that something church approved and "family friendly" is in danger and that wee innocent
children and cute puppies are about to be tattooed and/or made to wear lots of leather chaps and eyeliner, and if we don't stand up to the Big Bad Evil, society as we know it will, very literally, crumble...
In fact, much like the church and the concept of "family" and Jenna Bush, marriage needs to be busted wide open. Marriage needs to be allowed to move and progress and dance as the culture moves, as
consciousness progresses, as times and mores change, recognizing along the way that what might have been some toxic nuclear-family ideal in 1953 holds nearly zero relevance today, and in fact only makes us more uptight and rigid and confused...
This is the only way. Evolve or die, honey. Because it's exactly when you try to force-fit love's modern, ever-evolving mutations into archaic, increasingly bitter boxes of ideology and Right wing-approved blandness and sactimony that the culture suffers most. Legislating love
is never the answer. Hey, just ask your neighborhood Catholic priest.
So. Let us redefine this week. Let us claim it right back from the hounds of fearful conservatism. Let us call it "Shut the Hell Up and Get Your Damn Conservative Agenda Out of My Love Life Week." In fact, let us make it a month. A year. An agenda of our own.
Nothing in this world makes me want to go grab a boy/boi or a girl/grrrl, jump over a broomstick with them, adopt a bunch of kids and raise them to run in the woods naked chanting hymns to the old gods, than this kind of neo-con Right-wing fundamentalist Christian bullshit. I got yer repression right here, assholes.
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Date: 2003-10-15 09:19 am (UTC)Get the item, leave the bad feedback or, do like I did once, and leave it as neutral but word out the bad things.
And, if he does leave you nasty feedback, you always have the ability to go in and comment on it.
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Date: 2003-10-15 09:20 am (UTC)And I could easily become a pre-op transsexual.
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Date: 2003-10-15 09:25 am (UTC)I was thinking of just saying "Unpleasant to deal with, not recommended." Not too specific, but does cover the bases pretty well.
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Date: 2003-10-15 09:53 am (UTC)Good luck, hun. :)
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:47 am (UTC)Just want to make it clear that I'm not Christianity-bashing...I have serious issues with some sects, and none with other sect. Brad and I are probably more Buddhist in our beliefs, though we want to honor his Jewish heritage and culture through celebration of Jewish holidays and rituals...and I like decorating during the holidays because it's fun to string pretty shiny things up. So we're a mish-mash... but marriage should never be part of some idiot's political agenda!!! Grrr...
This reinforces to me that separation of Church and State, which is something I'd admired about this country when I first heard about it, is a hypocrisy. Which ticks me off...
Anyway, end of MY rant. :p
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Date: 2003-10-15 11:23 am (UTC)Anyway, end of MY rant. :p
Picture me standing up and applauding, 'cause that's what I'm doing on the inside right now. I'm of the opinion that if you want to say, "Hey you can't get married in or recognized by our church unless you're a member" that's cool. If you say "Hey, you can't get married at all, even by a judge 'cause our God doesn't like you", that's not cool. The civil and legal aspects of marriage come under the heading of "State" as far as I'm concerned, not "Church", and I could've sworn we all decided to seperate those two things a long time ago....
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Date: 2003-10-15 12:02 pm (UTC)hetget me started on Marriage Repression Week. I'm so unhappy.no subject
Date: 2003-10-16 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-16 09:21 am (UTC)What I want to know is, when do we get a "Frolic in the Woods Naked" week or a "Live in Blissful Sin" week? Jeez we pagans really need to get organized :)
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Date: 2003-10-25 12:53 pm (UTC)OK, I'd definitely go pagan for that...