Great Weekend

A while ago, we had a fantastic weekend with Mom and Dad. On Friday we had Mom and Dad Nigh visit from Sun Prairie. They came up on Friday evening. We went to Godfather's Pizza for dinner and talked about politics and sports. The pizza was really good despite how eccentrically the place was decorated. We had some good conversation about how delightful it is that Ned Yost is no longer managing the Brewers and about how impressed we all were by Aaron Rogers (who has since been less than impressive.) After we ate dinner, we came back to the apartment to rest and digest a bit. We watched a few Rifftrax clips on YouTube (Our favorite- The Matrix- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1TULRXHpTk).

And...since we last wrote we have seen the end to a very frustrating experience with eBay. We didn't want to write about it until after it had been resolved since we didn't want to run the risk of further aggravating an already tense situation. So...here is the tale: so, mom had given us a bunch of American Girl dolls to auction off on eBay so we had some extra spending cash. Well, a few of the dolls were duplicates. So, when taking pictures of the dolls to put on eBay, Lisa would only take a picture of one of the duplicates because...it's the same doll, why would I take a picture of the same doll twice? Well, we listed one such doll about a month ago. This doll happened to be one of the dolls that Becky had on display in her room. Never played with, never tossed around...just had out of the box on display in a smoke free home. Apparently this doll was less the tag that was on the doll that we took a picture of, which was a mint in the box doll. Again, however, we didn't feel like this was an issue since the doll was in great shape and...most importantly, it was the same doll. So, it sold. We shipped it off the day after labor day and thought that was the end of it. A week and a half later we got an e-mail from the buyer demanding that we send along the tag. We replied that we didn't have any such tag and they said that they were going to try to get us kicked off eBay and that they would go to the post office and get us charged with mail fraud. We are suddenly dealing with this aggressively vindictive person who was all bent out of shape because the doll we sent was "not the doll pictured." We even relented that we had not pictured the exact same doll but emphasized that it was the same doll!!! This was not enough. They wanted a full refund of their money plus an additional $10 for shipping. At this point we mentioned that they had neither contacted us or shipped back the doll within the 7 day period described in eBay's return policy. They said that they had contacted eBay and that eBay had sided with them in saying that we "misrepresented our item"...but we knew that this wasn't the case since we hadn't heard anything from eBay to that effect. So, we finally went to PayPal who has since determined that we should refund the original price paid and the buyer will be responsible for shipping. We are ecstatic that this is finally going to be over...but, just a little miffed that we had to deal with this idiot in the first place.

Anyway...sorry it has been so long. Life has been a bit nutty.