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i’m just too depressed right now. i couldn’t be bothered writing about it anymore.

last night, i just read from my e-mail (it was dated just this past Saturday):

I will ask Lindsay to send you any information that she has.

Unfortunately, it’s not our responsibility if the package doesn’t arrive, so
we can’t replace the items or refund your money. We don’t have extra
photosets, and the money was used to buy your sets and send the package.
It’s something that you will have to take up with the postal service,
because there’s nothing that we can do about it. Sorry.

~Jamie

i’m really angry. i’m really really angry. so i immediately posted this on my LJ…:

i’m angry. i’m really angry right now.

there is recently development concerning those still missing Rikkai photosets, and i’m certainly disgusted at how this is all turning out.

i already want to write an open letter to the tenipuri_myu comm already to warn people of certain sellers that claim reliability but do not take responsibility for lost packages, but I’m still holding out now waiting for:
1)certain things promised to me by the sellers,
2) result of the more thorough post office’s search tomorrow,
3)those sellers to clean up their act — meaning, place proper disclaimer for packages and stop claiming reliability of service they don’t take responsibility if it is lost anyway.
4)still trying to exhaust all diplomatic channels available that this would not turn out TO BE A VERY UGLY WEB WAR. as in, i’m still trying to be at least calm and nice.

because i’m certainly going to fight this war, even at the risk of being banned from tenipuri_myu because of the havoc i’d most likely seem to spread=___=;;. though i don’t see why i should be, as i feel like i’m the victim here. my only fault was that i had believed in what turned out to be false advertising.

so to those who are in my f-list who are also part of tenipuri_myu, how should i properly address this? should i go to the mods first about this before spamming in all comms my “beware” open letter?? (if there are any mods at all??)



AND A GENERAL QUESTION TO ALL: if you were the seller/servicer and offered a product/service, of course you wouldn’t market yourself as unreliable, right?

and for example, the customer believed in your claims in reliability, and you as the seller/servicer sent out a $96 rare package to a customer by SAL. BUT IT DIDN’T ARRIVE AT THE CUSTOMER’S END — what will you do?

will you refund the money? send a replacement? or just wash your hands free of this? because, it is sent by SAL after all — apparently the most unreliable shipping service ever. and you have put a very vague disclaimer on the reliability of SAL as a shipping option.

somebody, please tell me >__< ???


because, basically, it’s as if i had just been told at the face, “Sorry, you believed in us anyway, so it’s your loss. We don’t have anything to do with that anymore. Just say bye bye to your $96 already!”


if the post office comes out negative tomorrow, and i still don’t get the stuff from the sellers as promised, i’d more likely…. i don’t know. as much as i don’t want to lash out and just spam at all comms those sellers are in, i… *frustrated*

…and went straight to bed. i’m really that pissed.

but today, i’ll be contacting my post office. if the result of the search comes negative (as in the package did not arrive at the post office at all — how do i even know those girls have really sent it out?? or it already left the Japanese post office? they didn’t even keep its receipt >.<! ), i’ll definitely ask them about the next step i’ll take to at least get my $96 back.

i will also try my best to see if Lindsay will at least message me back. obviously that Jamie had already washed her hands off this. i’ll be seeing if her partner would actually do the same.

i’m also currently piling up all my bullets. i’ll be taking these to the mod of tenipuri_myu, and the other comm Lindsay is in, to consult them first on the appropriate action. i’ll also give those sellers one last appeal even if that would sound that i’m practically begging, which i hate and piece of my mind.

if all else couldn’t help me, I’LL DEFINITELY SPAM in the comms. as this is definitely injustice. i’m definitely going to lose some in doing so, and I don’t know if I’ll gain my $96 back in the process which is all i’m concerned about.

lots of people would most likely prefer to turn a blind eye on this and not even attempt to advise me on what to do.

i’m alone. and i just seemingly lost $96 to thin air.

so to kedi_kedi, i really appreciate it ;___;.

…i sound like i’m about to die *bitter laugh*.

maybe i am. with the exception of some packages arriving for me and some simple little things i got to work which makes me happy for a while, i’m just so recently stressed out. work, family, life… it’s already taking its toll on me, that i’m frequently cranky now. i’m just secluding myself further now, just so i wouldn’t accidentally snap at anyone. it’s actually a miracle i still manage to try… just try… to stay calm and think strategy.

though i’m already thinking murder.

it’s so early in the morning, and already i’m thinking like this. *bitter smile*

> as i’ve promised you, I am updating now on my trip to Customs.
>
> The people at SAL would still have to look at their own
> records, if a package from you really arrived. They just ran
> out of time looking through the Small Parcels next, as most
> likely these could have been mixed with the Airmails and it
> was already Friday noon by the time they finished 1/3 of
> everything. No business days on weekends.
>
> They will continue the search on Monday morning. I will
> still be updating you.
>
> If you can read this, they are also requesting for 1) the
> weight of the pack. And 2) the exact address of Lindsay
> Sartoris, 3)what was the kind of envelope used and 3)from
> where in Tokyo it was sent. Such information would be very
> useful. and kind of info could help.
>
> If after Monday it is still not found, I would be asking
> for a replacement of the same photos, or a refund.
>
> Thanks. Hoping for your immediate response.

this whole fiasco is practically eating me up >__<. it’s once again one-way communication too =___=;;;… they’re busy.

but at least i’m doing something at my end. that’s enough to smooth my conscience a bit. i would hate myself if i had done nothing at all.

i hate holding on to hope. but i still hold on to any kind of hope. until hope itself lets me go.

like at work. damn i know my stats aren’t enough. i don’t know why the hell they’re stretching this out longer though. i know that if ever i pass, it would be because some people veted for me, not because i reached the numbers.

why can’t they just tell us the results already??? this whole thing is already too painful >___<… i hate hoping for nothing…

dammit no time to watch better-quality IkePara 7.23 >__<… to cheer myself up a bit *rushing for work*

EDIT: this was supposed to be posted last night. but…. i was really in a hurry =___=. though… i think i really liked my schedule last night *____*…

replies for yesterday’s note (i had posted it in their latest sales posts, which, i feel, angered one=___=;;):

from one:

Subject: Re: Missing Rikkai photosets
xxx will mail you the copy of the receipt soon.
I have email her to send it to you.
sorry for making you wait.

the other:

I just want to let you know that I’ve tried to be helpful, but you are
really trying my patience. Please understand that I don’t have the time to
reply to emails every day, even when they are from close friends, and
posting around acting as if I am ignoring you is not really the right way to
ask for a reply. I’ve been overly accomodating to you when there was not
even any fault on my part, so you need to learn to have more patience,
please.

I can’t scan the sample receipt for you right now, because I have been in
the process of reformatting my computer’s hard drive and only recently got
it back up. Add that I am working full-time right now and have one other job
in addition and am looking for another. So I understand that you have a lot
of time and you are worried, but July is the most busy time of the year for
me.

I will scan the receipt as soon as I can get the time and the correct
software for my scanner. Keep in mind that I am out of the house most of the
day and only home for a small while, which I am usually working on other
projects. Maybe a photograph would work better, which I have attached for
you. This was for one package, mailed last week, to someone in America if I
remember correctly. There isn’t any information that identifies whom it was
to or what it was, as I explained to you earlier.

Hopefully this helps you. I don’t think that it’s any use at Customs,
however.

~xxx

i’m still thinking of a good comeback to this. i’m just letting my anger stew for a while.

thankfully today’s my day-off. WHICH IS RARE. AND I’M ALSO BUSY.

i don’t want to think this is a contest on who has the most patience =____=…. but i think i have been patient enough. i mean i had already waited for two months, didn’t i? and i had been replying as prompt as i can to any e-mail though i’m busy myself and so stressed out with the latest events at work… almost like i feel like i’m a dog begging for attention.

i almost feel sorry that the other one’s taking the most of the brunt of my anger *bitter smile* that she seemed to have snapped herself.

but i have to be firm from this point on. excuses on inaction from either of our side at this point almost seem irrelevant — i feel like i’m running out of time to remedy this situation, which is until the 29th, wherein the next Tenimyu would happen again. (where, possibly, the past photosets could be put on sale…)

…i try not to hope for a replacement from them though. everything’s just so bleak at this point…

my reply to a lone reply on my LJ post (which is, also the post yesterday):

how do i do it for 2 foreigners living?/currently in Japan?

and how do i stake a claim at a $96 package sent by SAL (omg)? the disclaimer into the possibility of this being lost in that shipping method is vague, and i just went with the reputation and claims of reliability (and i see that i have paid for that dearly >_<..)– but i still have a right to fight for is, don’t i?

a $96 package being lost is just… =___=

and i recently received a reply that i have been “trying” her patience though she had been very accommodating (yes, she is) and she is very busy and me “posting around acting as if” she’s ignoring me “is not really the right way to ask for a reply” — well, it’s been a week since the last e-mail, no replies, and they have put up these sales posts, so i don’t really know what else but to snap at this point *rueful laugh*. and yes, I’M also busy.

maybe i should just go ask for a refund? i think they won’t have time to shop around if ever i’d ask for a replacement? i mean, just basing it from the length of time between their replies =____=…

maybe i should just ask for a refund. or… i don’t know. they seem to be the only ones doing the myu service anyway =___=, so…

i’ll just reply the girls back later when i’m calmer, then i’ll just go to Customs today with that scan. and go to work tonight right after that =___=.

this day is going to be so crappy and futile, i could just feel it.

somehow, i feel this is all but a case of misconception. leading to misunderstanding. and then… to anger.

i just don’t know why at their latest sales posts though they still don’t put the disclaimer that SAL HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING LOST though, and they wouldn’t be responsible if it gets lost (as it’s already “out of their hands”, as they have constantly disclaimed to me).

this is why… i really should not trust in people so much. i’ve always had bad experiences with doing that, so i still don’t know why the hell i’m still doing it >___<…

EDIT:

my reply e-mail. ETA: 3:14am:

i’m sorry if i seem to be trying your patience already. but it has been a week, i just snapped because i don’t know what to think of anymore at the lack of replies, and i don’t even know for sure if all my e-mails actually reach you. so i didn’t have a choice anymore but to post at the most accessible location.

i’m also a firm believer of efficient after-sales customer service, most specially if the certain service did not actually reach the customer, like in my case. i had my own editing business once, so i uphold this rule.

and i know you’re busy. i’m also busy myself, i do not have a lot of time on my hands, i’m also juggling between jobs and various stresses and working nights even. i practically just sacrifice some of my eating and sleeping time for some internet time.

but this is a problem hanging on both of our heads, and i just want it to be over with. and i don’t want this to stress us both further by prolonging it. because i have already waited two long months already.

i still thank you for the picture. that will do. do not stress yourself scanning that receipt anymore as that is just the same thing. i know it’s futile and wouldn’t be of much use, but still it’s enough to show at Customs if they would feign ignorance.

i will be going to Customs today (and will be going to work right after. as i’ve said, i work nights). i’ll be e-mailing you then right after work on how it went, and the next plan of action. so that e-mail would be Saturday morning — i’m just almost in the same timezone as Japan. i still hope for your immediate reply.

thanks. and sorry again.

her reply… that much-awaited reply… is enough to placate me anyway. though once again i’m accused of something. so i still said sorry.

EDIT 2: ETA 5:06am:

btw, my Devil May Cry Devil Material Collection arrived yesterday ^.^! just saying:

Missing Rikkai photosets

i really feel appalled and frustrated that up to now you haven’t been messaging me back concerning this. You offered that you would send me at least a pic of a non-related Japanese PO slip that I could show Customs, but i have been waiting for almost a week and still no e-mail back from you. your last e-mail had been on the 15th, and i replied back on the 17th.

and once again, i had messaged yesterday, but still no reply. i don’t want to think you’re purposefully ignoring me and avoiding resolving the issue.

if you must e-mail me just to tell me that you wouldn’t be sending a pic after all of the PO stub, why wouldn’t you do so asap? i know we are all busy, but this thing is dragging out too long already, and i just want to go to Customs now to get it over with. it has been two months… this is already unreasonable and frustrating for me.

sorry if my last e-mail already appears nasty to you, and this post also is. and sorry if i have to resort to spamming this sales post. but i think leaving your customers hanging over a certain unresolved transaction with you is just so wrong. and there is no other way to contact you. you don’t reply to my e-mails anymore.

can’t you guys at least message me back??

if those girls are going to erase this comment on their sales post and still resort to inaction within a week (yes, i still manage to have that little patience), THIS MEANS WAR >= (.

i’m not revealing their lj usernames yet. but if you are in the same circle as me, you most likely know who is offering shopping of myu goods the most, right? *shrug*

i’ve been ranting about this issue for two fucking months already, nobody can stop me now.

even if the marketplace’s online, unbound by any laws and where people could just easily ignore you and go into hiding anytime they mess up, i’ll still wage war if i have to…

i just wonder what else could i do, this time for myself, aside from put up warning signs for people looking to do transactions with those certain people. i just… don’t know anymore. this seems like i’m about to ruin someone’s reputation, but…

it’s a friggin $96. i don’t sound nice anymore, do i?

hi Jamie,

I thought you were going to send me that scan? I have been waiting for almost a week for that and I want to go to Customs already to finalize this.

I hope you wouldn’t run away from this issue. I am sorry for seeming to sound so irate, but I really feel upset over the whole thing and I just want this over with on my end. So if you are sending that scan, please send that now. If not, at least e-mail me asap.

Below is the content of my previous e-mail to you, if you haven’t received it. This had been last week’s:

i really feel upset right now. i had really want to go to Customs tomorrow, as tomorrow’s my day off. but still there’s no scan from Jamie in sight and I have no money. hell, I don’t even know if my allowance would last me until next week, considering how transport fares are getting increasingly higher lately that it’s all almost like a ripoff =___=. and my printer and scanner just decided to stop working with me too.

nice one there, life=___=. and yes, i’m sarcastic.

i don’t know if behind my back, those girls are laughing at me already. and the nerve that they have set up a sales post once again even when they haven’t resolved this yet…!

i’m really scary when i’m angry…

on other hand, hopefully this is the last day i have this screwy schedule=__=. i hate going home at noon, it just feels like i’m at work for forever. and i hate going to work this late.

i also hate this feeling of still not knowing our status in work. as in, there’s still no results yet on the deliberations, if ever it had already occurred. like, we don’t know if we’re still supposed to be reporting to work or something >.<.

i feel so damn tired.

perhaps the only light in the tunnel today are those IkePara!Masa reports today. the show this time seems hilarious though Masa was reportedly terrified/mortified *hugs!*

i also saw the trailer for Ba-chon’s Twilight Syndrome ~Dead-go-round~ today. alsdkdkgdsllghdfj. the biggest question!: would Ba-chon die in this film??? XD.

yesterday/last night really seemed like the longest day of my life >.<. work was getting boring, customers getting stressing. and once again our team leader has given me a red flag it’s getting pretty…uhh… no comment >.<

i wish for more available times today *pachi*

and i realize, my last post had been… the 100th post 0.0! should i celebrate…?

and, finally! the payment for my Animate orders pushed through. and my stuff had already been preordered ^o^! it’s still pretty meh though that i have to wait until the 16th to get my DL5 dvd (omg there’s already the DL5 cd circulating in the net), because that’s the date Ba-chon’s dvd will be released >.<. and i have to wait 3-5 days for the EMS to get to me too… (or longer if my PO wanks).

…i’m still very angry about my Rikkai photosets, yes. no emails from those girls yet. I think i’ll go to Customs tomorrow anyway, without image scan from there or with. it’s all an exercise in futility going there would give me more fuel to really lash out harder next time though.

and… grr!:

【2巻】ソウル編

発売日：2008年9月19日（金）

omg. and this is the one that Ba-chon would be going in traditional gear. asdfhslhdkghsklgsakgah traditional!Ba-chon is really sexy =3~~~~

;^;… *goodbye my money again…!* why the hell didn’t they just release this in ONE dvd???!?? and why do you Japanese release all the good things at the SAME TIME???

and also, the Rikkai Supporters DVD is also announced! omg *hits head on desk* should i ask for the layaway for Sard to be moved again???

so! revised schedule!:

August – DL5 dvd – Ba-chon’s travelogue dvd

September – Togainu no chi True Blood Original Soundtrack, limited ver. – Ba-chon’s travelogue dvd part 2 (9/19) – Masa’s 1st live STAND UP!! (9/3 — still thinking about this >.<) – Rikkai Supporters DVD vol.8 (9/20)

November – Sweet Pool pc game

those girls responsible for my Rikkai photosets are not yet e-mailing me that pic as promised. no matter how apparently useless the image is. i’m really pissed. i’m still thinking of my next action.

maybe at my latest message i had been too harsh and sarcastic?

…but there is really no other way to go…

on other fronts, aslkdfhsdlfdhsghdlsk i think i’m jealous of Ookawa Genki. He’s got a Russian Blue omg. I’ve always wanted to have a Russian Blue, or a British Shorthair. the cat with that distinct bluish color. yes.

i somehow couldn’t find the link to where i can purchase one though…

and i think i’ll also be following Genki’s site. he’s a real otaku ne~~~ lol. i’m just oogling at his Gundam collection (my only dream was just to complete my GW OVA Endless Waltz three — the Deathscythe, the Heavyarms, and the Wing. the Wing is with the Special version, the one with transparent wings. and yeah, maybe get the convertible MG^^;;;). no matter how scarcely he seems to write^^;;….

and, yes, looking forward! i don’t know if today will be my last day at work. or tomorrow. because it’s deliberation time once again.

…i just want a damn job = ( .

and my schedule for the next 3 days sucks too =____=;;;.

and… my planned purchases releases schedule! (ack, my money >.<…):

August – DL5 dvd – Ba-chon’s travelogue dvd

September – Togainu no chi True Blood Original Soundtrack, limited ver.

November – Sweet Pool pc game

this will be constantly updated >.<…


i don’t know why i couldn’t proceed with the payment with Crescent Shop. i keep on getting this “10412″(?) error. and they’re not replying to my bbs message yet >.<. argh… just when the exchange rate is $1=100.22yen…!