GARRRRRH!!

Warning, useless rant ahead, who’s only purpose is to vent.

So, I find the perfect laptop on Ebay. It only ships to the US. I’m fine with that, and fairly used to it. I change my Ebay address to my US address and click Buy It Now. The seller has blocked payments from non-US registered PayPal accounts.

Okay, that’s his right, so I shoot them an email asking how to pay (to be fair, the listing said they accepted international payments, just wouldn’t ship internationally). They say Western Union. Cool, no worries.

I hop over to Western Union. Wait in line for an hour (3 people working, only one machine). Get there, and they require ID. Okay, that’s my fault. Run home and get it. Come back. Oh, they don’t take Visa. Or debit. Oh, and they can’t tell me what the total charge is since they can’t calculate exchange rates (laptop’s 1650$ US, I need to know how much to take out CDN).

Go to the bank. First bank didn’t have enough money in the machine. Second bank, I realize my daily cash withdrawal is only 1000$. So I take that out. Why not, right?

I go to Western Union’s site. Oh, I can send money from there. Oh, it’s only 500$ daily limit. Call them up. Oh, none of the agents take visa or debit. Only cash.

@#&%

I’ve sent using Visa before (3 times). Is this a new policy? No, apparently some stores used to break it, but it’s a firm policy now.

So now I’ve got the perfect damn laptop. 1000$ in cash. Lots of money on my Visa. The ability to pay via PayPal and NO WAY TO PAY FOR IT.

#@!%$@#*%#!@#!@$(!@$!@$ !@$ !@$*&#@%# @!$!@$@!$ !@$ !@$ !@$ !@$ !@$!@#$$% !!!!!!!!

Y’know?

Like one of those days where something that should be so simple (normally I pay for Ebay transactions in under 5 minutes) ends up being the biggest pain in the ass and ruining my whole day (not to mention taking up 2 HOURS of my time).

@#%#%!!!!!