| allnameswereout |
2008-12-09 18:13 |
Re: The Pandora Cluster Bleep
Actually, at this point, you will have to pay more than 304.11 USD (don't use $ sign; alone it means nothing) because of the exchange rates. These depend on your bank though. The exchange rates they used depend on their bank.
However why did their bank issue a refund?
If it is possible to deny transactions from banks you could put this bank on there.
And the 'it isn't our fault' is a bit finger pointing. If it is their banks fault and not theirs they should take another bank. And they could inform their customers about this.
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Originally Posted by fms
(Post 248134)
Well, it is about a lesson now: Never ever preorder anything from shady little startups that have no previous record of hardware manufacturing or design. And it does not matter how many "open source" stickers are plastered over their web page. If you are betting money, at least make good bets.
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Indeed. And consider to not jump on the early adopter bandwagon.
Actually, I can 'pre-order' here too, and have done this succesfully. However this was done in real life, and in trust of each other. I say I want X, the store doesn't have it. They say: well, we can order it for you, but then please pre-pay Y amount (usually a couple of tens, with more expensive things this rises; its something like 5-10% of the total; def not more than 33%). For this I receive a receipt. Once they have it, the remaining debt is immediately fullfilled at the moment the transaction takes place.
Likewise, don't send something unless you have received payment. I sometimes receive something while I haven't even paid yet, or payed on the very day I received it. For example yesterday (monday) I received something I paid for sunday... |
