I hope I could be as honorable (sorry, honourable) as you under similar circumstances. BTW, I thought the receiving person was responsible for any duties, not the sender or shipper. At least, that is how it was when I Fed Ex'd something to Canada recently.

 

They are, but he gave me his personal or business UPS account to use for shipping. When his UPS bill came in and he didn't pay it, they come after the sender since i was the guy who went to UPS and said "Use this account to ship this item" (this was according to UPS) The bill would have the combination of the shipping fees, plus the duties

After multiple emails from him saying it was resolved (and he told me to ignore the calls since it was resolved....which in hindsight,,,shouldn't have) it went to a collection agency...which this was the first time i've ever dealt with one....and for the record.....they are dou**bag's, but that's what they get paid to be!

 

Hate to hear about your problems. I can relate with in laws. I have a three day max with mine and vice versa.

As for that guy stiffing you; that blows as well. Keep your chin up.

 

Wow, that sucks. Never heard of that before. That's some security, MS has going.

J

 

Exactly what I said. The funny part is MS says there was a password reset request on my account and it wasn't me doing it. I never even got an email to my live account which you usually get with a password reset

So however did this was able to reset my password, re-assign my gamertag to a new xbox, and to make matters worse, were able to see the ph number and name associated with my account (hence the phone call from the punk)

When they finally fixed it, the MS guy on the phone said he couldn't guarantee that this wouldn't happen again......AND IT DID... A WEEK LATER!!!!

I really don't care about the gamertag,, i'm more concerned about how easy it is to steal someones account and get access to their personal info!

 

Make sure the Live ID you use for your account has a strong password. With 25 million subscribers, there are some weak passwords..

..and yes I have a vested interest in the success of Xbox Live.

 

It does....my profession is network security,...a very long password containing numbers, symbols, letters and more.....

I can still log on to my Live ID with my original password, so that was never changed, the only problem is it's no longer associated with my Gamertag

I log into the Xbox Live site using my Live ID, but as indicated, when i do that now it asks me if i want to create a new gamertag


Which is what makes this extra frustrating.....there is nothing on my end i could have done, something is wonky on the MS side

 

Did you wire money to that Nigerian bank account like the email said?

 

lol.....but i got a personal guarantee from the Prince himself!!!!!

 

btw,,,,so do i...I've been a member since 2002 (actually the day it came out), which might be why i've been a target, my gamertag is a 4 letter word......and no, not that one

 

If you want to save your credit, talk to the collection agency, and work a deal. I had an issue with Dell a number of years ago. They shipped me a computer for work, and I didn't hear anything about it for 3 years. I finally get a call from a collection agancy, and I am surprised, that this has gone so long with out hearing from them. I call Dell and talk to a guy in the accounting department (he was a total A hole), he tells me that he tried to call a person on and off for the 3 years with no call backs. I said the person you are looking for left the company left the company 2 weeks after the computer arrived, why didn't you ask for someone else? He responded, I don't know, so will you pay the bill. I asked, what about the guy at the collections aganecy that actually called the right guy, he said that it was too bad for him. I replied, I will call you back. I called the collections guy and told him what the Dell guy said, he told me that if I offered him 50 cents on the dollar, that he would accept that and close the file with out any issue with my companies credit history. I told him it was a done deal.

The icing on the cake, was when I called the guy at Dell and told him I settled it with the credit guy, and that I only paid 50 cents on the dollar....that was one pissed guy!

Sorry to hear about your bad day, and I agree that the Porsche will always put a smile on my face.

 

I totally agree about the Porsche. I drove my aunt's 997.2 C2S vert over spring break while she was in the hospital. No matter what happened....that car always put a smile on my face. The exhaust note, the lightning fast shifts from the PDK, it was great

 

tough week.. good thing u have a porsche, huh?

higher the RPM, bigger the smile !

bro, i respect that u r not making a big deal out of the UPS/collection..

however, if he said it was resolved.. it should have been resolved. I personally do not take well to lies..

IMO, u give the guy few days to make it right.. if he still doesn't, u should call him out here in the forum.

BOL

 

911 for the keeps !!!

 

So I'm always trying to explain my feelings for the 911 to the wife and she never gets it. You said it so simply and accurately that I had to read your post to her. Her only response: "I hope these guys still feel that strongly about their wives after that kinda miles too!".