Monthly Archive for February, 2009

Oh the joys of fraud

Published on February 24, 2009 at 07:24. Tags: annoyed, eBay, fraud, headaches, Paypal.

I got an email yesterday, right before Heroes was about to come on about a paypal transaction for eBay fees. I thought that it must be a normal phishing email, but went up to my comp to be able to login to paypal just to be sure. Low and behold, there was indeed a transfer sitting there for over 1300 dollars in eBay fees. I found this very disturbing as I haven’t sold anything on eBay since last July. I start with calling paypal, and was told, there is nothing they can do, and that I should call ebay, but they didn’t have a number etc, so I ask for their supervisor. After another 20 minutes of holding, I get a supervisor on the line, and they tell me that I would need to call eBay. Apparently in that 20 minutes, eBay started a phone bank as the supervisor had a number for me to call. At this point, I am 45 minutes in on my phone calling experience, so I tell the paypal guy that I am going to call eBay on 3 way calling, so that we can get this all worked out, as it seems to be an issue between eBay and paypal. I have to admit, I was kind of surprised they agreed to this, but was glad they did.

We get an eBay rep on the phone, and they say that they see I have made no charges, and eBay did not request any fees. One would thing, as eBay and paypal are owned by the same parent company that this would be sufficient to get this cleared up. The paypal guy essentially was not listening to the eBay rep, and kept saying that it seems like it hasn’t shown up in their records yet. I was told to dispute the fee on the paypal site, and they would investigate. I ask some information on how the process works, as I was about to call my bank and i was told that I needed to let Paypal deal with it first, and I kindly disagreed and said that I would be placing a hold with my bank to prevent any funds from being withdrawn. I figure once the money leaves by account, chances of getting it back are rather slim.

I call my bank and get a hold placed on any withdrawals from my account, and then proceed to call back eBay without Paypal on the line, just to check on some things. I speak to a rep and then to an ebay fraud specialist, as I figure having eBay working on this with Paypal might help to get it resolved in a more expedient fashion, so that I can unfreeze my bank account as soon as possible. As for now, I am in a waiting game for the most part which pisses me off even more. I hate that Paypal is becoming a necessary evil for online commerce for many places, or after this, I would close my account in a heartbeat.

Current Mood: (annoyed)

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It always seems to be raining on my parade

Published on February 17, 2009 at 23:48. Tags: annoyed, harley, motorcycle, quinn.

I finally got in the highway bars for Quinn yesterday, and got them installed today during my lunch. I also had time to get one of the highway pegs installed. I installed the other one once I got home, and right before it started to rain. I didn’t get to do a test ride to see if the pegs are in the right position, and now the forecast is for rain the rest of the week. So far, my luck has not been good whenever I install new parts onto the bike. It is by no way the end of the world, just an annoying coincidence that just doesn’t seem to go away.

I need to plan out some weekend trips to take this year on the bike. I am not sure where I want to go yet, but it will probably end up being trips to visit some members of the fleet. I am sure that would equate to some epic memories that would not soon be forgotten. I still haven’t done any solo trips and I think that it would be a great experience. After I get moved and settled, I really need to look into figuring out when some of these trips might be able to happen.

Current Mood: (irritated)

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It is hard to clean behind a toilet

Published on February 15, 2009 at 12:51. Tags: house, moving.

I have started the packing process, and along with packing comes more intensive cleaning than would occur on a normal basis. I learned this when trying to clean behing my toilet. My master bathroom has a small nook that holds the throne, and there is not an easy way to clean the floor or the back of the bowel etc. I think that I could go my whole life without attempting that again, well until I have moved and have to get the condo ready to rent or sell that is.

Packing is going very slow. This daunting task presents itself as mission impossible, as I pack a box, and it looks like I have not even started. I have been sorting through stuff, and I see a big trip to goodwill in my future, as well as some very full trash cans for the next few weeks.

I think I have decided that the easiest way to deal with some of this stuff is to just mark what I am leaving here when I move. I can then come back and deal with that stuff after I am settled in the new place. I hope this plan works, as I hate having to do work again if I can help it.

Current Mood: (cranky)

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Writing from the iPhone

Published on February 12, 2009 at 21:56. Tags: domain, geekiness, LJ, movies, TV Shows, wordpress.

Well I am close to having my WP all set up how I would like it. I still need to populate the list on links on the side list and do a few other tweaks here and there. After I am done doing that, I really need to either remake my main page, or just use the wordpress to do my entire site. I am also in debate about what to do with my Livejournal when the paid account expires in April. I think that it will probably just go back to a free account and use the WP as my primary outlet.

On a completely unrelated note, I love watching Serenity and seeing the BSG reaver fleet. It is an extra shot of geek that never gets old.

Current Mood: geeky

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Technology Highs and Lows

Published on February 11, 2009 at 20:22. Tags: 360, house, moving, Software.

Well the past couple of days have had a mixture of nice tech, and crappy tech experiences. On the upside, I finally took the time to change the look of my wordpress. My host doesn’t have MySQL 4, so I am having to use a legacy release for now. I am trying to ge them to upgrade the MySQL but I am sure that will be a lengthy process. I have been searching for some templates to use, and most of them are for the most recent WP release. I finally found a version of K2 for the older release, and that solved that predicament.

On the downside, my xbox 360 decided to die on me. I didn’t get the red ring of death, but rather the red quadrant of death. From what I can tell from the net, it is the video heatsync that has gone foul. I need to call M$ and get a send back code so that I can get it repaired. I have gotten into playing the zombie mode of Call of Duty: World at War and this has distracted from what I need to be doing of packing up the stuff I have accumulated over the past 8 years of living here. This is a daunting task that I have not been able to bring myself to do on a regular basis yet.

Part of this process is getting rid of a metric ton of crap that I don’t want to move, so I need to list quite a bit of stuff on ebay and craigslist to get rid of it. Anything geek or costume related I will put up here as well and give friends first dibs. Well it is time to get back to LOST for now.

Current Mood: (apathetic)

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