We have been forced this week to make an ammendment to the popular, “GAS Rule Book”. After referring to Rule #23: “Never Ever Tell Your Spouse”, we followup with Rule #23b: “Never Ever Use Your Wife’s Ebay Account to Buy a Guitar”. I know it might seem obvious to most people, but after receiveing the following message yesterday, I thought it would be prudent to pass this along to my fellow GAS addicts. Read and learn:
Dear Seller,
I am writing to ask you to please cancel this purchase. My husband who has no experience (or business in my opinion) on ebay was tooling around on our shared computer and apparently mistakenly bought this guitar. Because I was already logged into eBay earlier that day, he met no resistance and says since he didn’t have to enter a credit card he thought it was like Amazon and he could just “look around”. I know, I know….. It doesn’t make sense to me either. But I do know the man reads nothing so it could happen.Anyway… So, since this purchase is attached to me and not him and since I will be made to suffer with the bad rating and possibly getting kicked off eBay – which would make me very sad – I am hoping you will be kind to us.
Believe me he is being made to pay for this at home. So please put an end to his suffering and let me out of this purchase. I appeal to you kind person?. Please! Sincerely, (name deleted)
So there you go folks. Yes, we cancelled the order but something tells me this man won’t see the end to his suffering anytime soon.
Remeber, be careful out there.
Although you can hardly blame the guy, he was after one of these:
The Classic 12 (12-string) guitar from Eastwood Guitars
Can you say, “whipped”??
I can remember a time when I used to conceal the new acquistions inside those travel-type clothes bags and hang ’em in the long-term walk-in closet until the time was right to “introduce” them to the… ah… family. After nearly 4 decades of marriage, the Mrs. doesn’t much notice the new ones anymore.
ps…Fed Ex advised they are delivering my Greenburst Classic 6 this afternoon. This is just between you and me, okay?
It sounds like this guy has some growing up to do. Hopefully he has apologized to his wife, learned the basics of online shopping, and moved on with his life. (Neil, I hope you didn’t mean to imply that it’s somehow unreasonable for a wife to call out her husband on this sort of behavior. We all want more guitars; our wives shouldn’t be made pay for them without their consent….)
SMALL-TIME SELLERS BEWARE: I have “followed” Mike Robinson since shortly after he first appeared on the internet (back when Jesus was a baby) and he is a very Good person, but not everyone has the volume and success to absorb the time, cost and problems of people simply backing-out of a transaction already in progress, because “the dog ate the paycheck” or an unforeseen “emergency picnic” popped up, or the ‘old lady’ or ‘old man’ needs some “Midol” or “Viagra”. I always advise a Buyer that for his / her protection I will send a veryfying email to the email address listed for the ebay or Pay Pal account the Buyer desires to purchase from, and that the shipping address the Buyer desires must match the address listed at ebay and / or Pay Pal. That usually puts a screeching halt to scam attempts ….or wakes up eggheads using someone else’s accounts (although using someone else’s account is sometimes authorized and good). If there is a discrepency between those account addresses then using the registered addresses I inform the Buyer that special arrangements authorization must be made by those accounts owner from the email address for those accounts, and. ~~~~~~~ But of course that will not cure someone dumb enough to leave their accounts wide open for someone else to use, especially someone else with a bad or momentary case of G.A.S. ~~~~~~~ If I receive a ‘back-out’ email like the one above that Mike received, after the aforesaid precautions are taken, then I insist that arrangements be made on the telephone by all concerned, to make sure that the ‘back-out’ reasons (or excuse) holds water. ~~~~~~~ Aloha, DT~
We absolutely need the G.A.S. rule book published. This would be both a humanitarian service and a survival guide.
I used to sneak around behind my wife’s back and spend money on gear. After about 15 years of delayed arguments and grief I decided that it was time to get some peace in the house, and here’s how I did it. First, I held off on making any purchases for about 6 months. Next, I started buying gear for my son, while announcing my intention to my wife before the purchases. After some time doing that, I would pre-declare my plans, I.e.: “The next time I get a few bucks together, I want to buy that pedal…” to the wifey. And now I just say I’m buying something when I do it, and the grief is over! We’re going on 30 years married and my music room is jam-packed!
Try it, you won’t regret it, fellas.
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