So I'm into video games and sometimes I just have to have a really hard to find part that is way overpriced now because they don't make it anymore.
Case in point an old joystick made by a now out of business company called Wico. When the company was around (as little as 6 months ago) these joysticks were merely $10 each. Now with the company gone and supplies low, people are hording the parts and charging crazy amounts for them. I decided that for my newest machine, I need a NOS 4 way one. NOS means New Old Stock, which basically means a new, never before used item. It can't be marked New because the company is gone and the item is second hand, but for all intents and purposes, it is new. The next part, the 4 way is very important because it is a different joystick than an 8 way or a 2 way. In a 4 way, the joystick can only move up, down, left or right. In a two way, only left or right and well you get the idea. Simple concept right?
That is what I thought. So I see an ad for a guy selling a NOS Wico 2, 4 or 8 way for $45 shipped. Ouch I thought, $45 is steep, but if you have to have it, you have to have it. I had to have it. I sent the money and a short while later it arrived.
I quickly opened the box so I could check out my new awesome Wico stick and to my surprise, it's an 8 way. Damn, I thought, I emailed this guy 4 times telling him I wanted a 4 way specifically! Well, no big deal, I'll email him and tell him he sent the wrong one.
Well, long story short, this guy first is in denial, tells me there is no such thing as a 4 way, then tells me an 8 way is just like a 4 way with 4 more directions, then ends up calling me a Taliban member.
That is right, this racist idiot pulls out the Taliban card. Jeez if he had half a brain, he would know I'd much rather be in Hezbolla! (I keed, I keed)
Anyway, I figure this guy is some ass who just doesn't know what a 4 way is or just doesn't have one and won't own up to his mistake/deceit. I just resign my self to keeping the NOS 8 way, which I could use down the road for something.
Then it gets ugly. he goes and posts all this shit on a news group, such as my full name and email. Not a big problem because I can always get new emails. And lets face it, Mohammad isn't really that uncommon of a name. The clincher is what he does next however.
He REFUNDS my money, then calls me a MOron (I go by Mo on some news groups to save on typing). THEN he asks me to mail the joystick back on my dime.
That is right, he REFUNDS the money, I now have my money, PLUS his joystick. Then he calls ME a "MOron", THEN he asks me to mail the joystick back using my money to ship it to him.
HAAAAHAAAHAAA HAAAA HA...HAAA,...HA...HA.
That is some funny shit.
Needless to say, it is clear who the MOron is.
Just thought I would rant.
