My First eBay Purchase

This is the story of how I bought my first item through ebay (http://www.ebay.com/). I'm new at buying through the internet, well not a typical newbie at least... I've already had my paypal account for a year. As I'm a big fan of RPG games, I would like to try and buy an original playstation game that I adore so much back in my psone days that is The Legend Of Dragoon. I already played this game once but I lost the cd. As I browse through ebay for this item, I stumbled upon the game on sale by the seller egameuniverse. The title of the item was "LEGEND OF DRAGOON PLAYSTATION 1&2 PS2 RARE GAME NEW". I saw the feedback from of the seller at 98.2% Positive. And I said to myself.. as this game doesn't cost me much at USD16.98 (shipping calculated), why don't I make this my first purchase.. hmmm. So, I go on and bid for the item and later I found out that I was the winner of the bid. So I go on to pay for the item through paypal and hours later my order was processed (that was quite fast). That was on the 28th of August 2007.

After waiting for about a week, my item finally arrived at my mailbox on the 5th of September 2007. By the way, I'm living in Malaysia and the item is located in US. And I thought to myself that this is a serious businessman, he delivers what he promised.

The item was shipped by UPS. To my surprised, the item was like forcefully put in my mailbox. (I live in an apartment so everyone can see the item in the post box as we all share the same post box area) If someone is with a devious intention in mind, they can easily snatch the item from my mailbox. I thought that if you order a package by UPS, they will ask for your acknowledgement of receipt and ask for your signature, delivering the item into the palm of your hand. Understand that I'm a working man and my time at home would be after 6.30pm. But to say that no one is at home is a lame excuse as my mom is staying with me and she's in the house 24/7. My wife showed some displeasement with how the package was delivered but she tried her very best to hide her emotions.

But as I said to you readers on the first paragraph, this is my first purchased through ebay and I don't know zit about international shipping, pardon my ignorance.

The package with a foam plastic inside. Nevertheless, the package arrived and I'm eager to test my new game.

Tadaa... The Legend Of Dragoon - from faraway land - US :)

The game is definitely sealed and rare (greatest hits version) In a very good condition (new) and tempting.... ahh... good times... good times... As I was reminiscing some old memories while opening the package....

I saw some debris (as shown in the above picture) And as I carefully examine the CD case and content. I found out that the Debris had came from the cd holder of the plastic case. This could be caused by the UPS people in which I think they just throw the items here and there without realizing the value of the content inside haisshhh... that's two down for the UPS

A closeup of the Debris

Finally I would like to extend my thanks to egameuniverse for being such a good seller and would urge UPS to be a bit gentle in handling goods as there are valued goods cherished by ones' soul eventhough its just a small box with a cheap shipping cost.

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