by Burn » Thu Feb 06, 2020 5:46 am
- Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings to randomly click things in the Admin Panel to see what it breaks."
You ever have one of those random thoughts like "Is it possible for Wolverine to get circumcised?" or "Does Morgan Freeman's voice sound better in his own head?" or you know "Did Burn ever get a non-stinky Whirl?"
The answer to all three is ... no. (Seriously, Morgan Freeman's voice can't possibly get any more awesome)
Now you're probably wondering what drugs I'm on, and why the **** I'm resurrecting this thread.
You don't want to know what drugs I'm on, and as for the resurrection, it's because ... UPDATE TIME!
Back at the start of December a guy put a Generations Whirl up for sale on one of the B/S/T Australian Transformer Facebook groups which I'm part of. I asked the obvious question.
"Does he stink?"
Now this generally confuses the **** out of people until I reference this entire **** thread. Once I'd explained the story and confirmed that I was not an idiot out to troll him (I'm just an idiot ... I'm selective in my trolling) we got to talking and he made the offer of $30AUD plus $15 postage.
Now that was a bloody bargain. Plus he'd confirmed that Whirl, did in fact, not stink.
With price and postage sorted, payment should have been easy yeah?
No ... he "didn't have Paypal" ("I've been burned by them too much"). He wanted me to pay directly into his bank account. That was instantly a deal breaker for me, and I said as much.
Suddenly though, Paypal was available.
I took a day to think things over because my gut instinct was screaming that something wasn't right here. But I took the plunge, paid the money and gave him my address.
He thanked me, then said once he'd transferred the money from Paypal to his bank account he'd get it posted.
One week later Whirl arrived.
NOT.
I gave him another week before asking how he was going with posting Whirl out.
There was no response.
Another six days later, I sent another message asking if he was posting Whirl any time soon and telling him I was losing confidence in him.
No response.
Soon after this I contacted one of the group Admins and asked if I could call the guy out.
He already knew who I was going to call out because others had contacted him as well.
Over the next few days and a few back and forths with the Admin I found out the guy was apparently in hospital awaiting surgery, it was around this time that I received a message from his partner on his account advising me of such.
She knew there were deals in the pipe line, but had no idea what was what, she asked me if I could tell her what Whirl looked like and what he came with. So I sent her a link to an Amazon listing of Whirl.
And that was the last I heard from either the seller or his Mrs.
The Admin did post an update a week or so ago telling us that he hasn't had any further contact either.
TL:DR
Burn tried to get Whirl for a third time but third time was not the charm because the seller is either dodgy or in bad health. Burn is now out $45AUD and still has no non-stinky Whirl.