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Ugh, had my first really unpleasant experience with eBay purchasing. I had just placed a bid on several Beauty & The Beast fanzines and even more importantly an incredibly rare collection of Beauty & The Beast convention fan videos.
Earlier in the week, I had purchased a significant number of fanzines from the seller who claimed to offer combined shipping. But when I checked out this time yesterday, the combined shipping offer was not available. I contacted them, and they explained to me I had to cancel the order , and then resubmit.
The good news is that I did get my full refund, the seller relisted, and I repurchased it. But once again, the option for combined shipping was not available. In the hours during which we were working together to figure out why it was happening, the Beauty & The Beast DVDs were sold to somebody else. Technically, this was within her rights, and I'm not out any money.
I am now waiting nervously to find out whether the other items I purchased
earlier in the week will actually arrive. Her shipping tracking numbers seem to be off, and there are some items that I did purchase that do not have any associated tracking numbers. I'm fairly confident that I'll be able to get a refund if they do not arrive, but lesson learned. Once I receive the items and it is safe. I'll leave an appropriate review
The saddest part of this, is that I had planned to donate the Beauty & The Beast convention DVDs to the Treasure Chambers historical aarchive, a group of dedicated fans who have been doing amazing work preserving their fandom's history
Check out their work