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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#27,981
Whew. Back at work today. Feel like I've been in the midst of a full on panic attack non stop for the past 36 hours. How much can one white man's heart take I ask you?!?!?!?

Never really had a panic attack before. Maybe this is what it feels like? Like body-buzzing really hard with your heart pounding in yer ears?
 
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Muddslide said:
Whew. Back at work today. Feel like I've been in the midst of a full on panic attack non stop for the past 36 hours. How much can one white man's heart take I ask you?!?!?!?

Never really had a panic attack before. Maybe this is what it feels like? Like body-buzzing really hard with your heart pounding in yer ears?
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You're at work man, relax :D

Buy this stuff, drink it, and try not to talk to people too much.
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Squanch72 said:
You're at work man, relax :D

Buy this stuff, drink it, and try not to talk to people too much.
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Haha. Well, I got my boss breathing down my neck, all kinds of programs and such I have to plan that are coming up this week.

Dammit, I'm a Youth Services Librarian in a town of under 20K. NOTHING about my work should be stressful, but thanks to my boss it's nothing BUT stress.

We all know people who make life/things harder than need be. She is the worst one of those I have ever dealt with. I could go on and on. And on. But I won't bore with the details.

Think I need an I.V. drip of valerian root. And a stiff whisky, splash o' water.
 
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#27,984
STILL having Reverb issues getting that Daddy-O. It should have arrived a week ago, and the guy said it should be here today or tomorrow. Shipping info still says "Pre-Shipment". Already got Reverb involved, and if this thing doesn't show up tomorrow I'm getting Paypal involved and getting my money back. Forget this guy!
 
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kleinenenten said:
STILL having Reverb issues getting that Daddy-O. It should have arrived a week ago, and the guy said it should be here today or tomorrow. Shipping info still says "Pre-Shipment". Already got Reverb involved, and if this thing doesn't show up tomorrow I'm getting Paypal involved and getting my money back. Forget this guy!
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The fact that there's so much confusion says to me that the guy is just flaking. I sell on Reverb and unless it's a Friday afternoon or a week day, I usually have pedals shipped out with tracking info updated to the customer/listing the same day or within 24 hours. It's super easy to input everyone on that site, it even has a little message on the dashboard that doesn't go away until you input shipping info.
 
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Corey Y said:
The fact that there's so much confusion says to me that the guy is just flaking. I sell on Reverb and unless it's a Friday afternoon or a week day, I usually have pedals shipped out with tracking info updated to the customer/listing the same day or within 24 hours. It's super easy to input everyone on that site, it even has a little message on the dashboard that doesn't go away until you input shipping info.
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Well, HE insists the pedal has been shipped. Tracking info says otherwise. We'll see. I'm none too pleased, and better be getting a pedal soon!
 
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kleinenenten said:
Well, HE insists the pedal has been shipped. Tracking info says otherwise. We'll see. I'm none too pleased, and better be getting a pedal soon!
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Hopefully it all gets resolved to your benefit. It usually does if you get PayPal involved, just a lot of waiting around. The only time I've ever been screwed on a deal was on TGP, the guy clearly sold me the pedal, took my money, then forgot all about it and sold it to someone else. He put me off for weeks and weeks, on the second to last possible day I sent it to PayPal and after all their waiting time was done where they left it open for mediation, I just got my money back. Never had any problems on Reverb so far, but I've sold a lot more than I've purchased on there.
 
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Blank_0101 said:
if he shipped extra slow via the post office to be a cheapskate it doesn't come with a legit tracking number, it says its gonna ship and then says it arrived.
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2-Day Priority, have the number, says "Pre-Shipment". Has said that for a week now. He insists he shipped it and used that number. I've asked if he has a different number. Nothing. I've had packages magically appear without warning, but this one hasn't been one.
 
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Sometimes if you're shipping a short distance, tracking on USPS Priority Mail doesn't even update until it just about arrives, but that isn't typical. It will at least say it's shipped and an ETA within 24 hours, typically. Hard to say, maybe some people are just helpless f*ckups. I never have any issues when shipping stuff USPS, never had any complaints or issues.
 
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If he got a shipping label online and hasn't dropped it off yet, that would come up without having any actual tracking info. If you get a tracking number from shipping it at the post office, it usually goes into the system immediately and has some kind of info like "dropped off (date)".
 
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Corey Y said:
If he got a shipping label online and hasn't dropped it off yet, that would come up without having any actual tracking info. If you get a tracking number from shipping it at the post office, it usually goes into the system immediately and has some kind of info like "dropped off (date)".
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That's pretty much exactly what USPS told me when I called them. As far as they know, he's never shipped it. At least not under the tracking number I have!
 
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Looks like it's the waiting game then. If you lodge a complaint with PayPal they give a preset amount of time for the seller to work it out with you. If they don't respond, after that time lapses they just issue you a refund.
 
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kleinenenten said:
2-Day Priority, have the number, says "Pre-Shipment". Has said that for a week now. He insists he shipped it and used that number. I've asked if he has a different number. Nothing. I've had packages magically appear without warning, but this one hasn't been one.
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Did you get tracking info from Reverb or did he email/send it to you separately? IF he didn't input the tracking info into the Reverb.com website, then it would be possible that you're seeing the "pre-shipment" language, even though he sent it out already. I learned this the hard way selling stuff on Reverb, I initially would email tracking numbers direct to the buyer, but until I entered the tracking and shipping info on the Reverb.com website it wouldn't show that it shipped.

So, it's possible that he shipped you the pedal, it's hung up in shipping hell for whatever reason, and because he didn't fill out his shipping info on Reverb.com it's still showing that it hasn't shipped yet.
 
#28,000
The new singer flaked on us which means I still have to use my voice. I'm getting more and more comfortable with it, but I still suck. The guys want me to get some grit going in my singing, but all I can offer at the moment is clean voice.
Practices started going pretty good, we've got like 3 new songs in fragments. We're also re-working an old one form scratch. Now we just have to put it together, which, from my experience, is the hardest part.
I'm still hoping that we'll record at least a demo this year.
Oh well, at least now we practice regularly, so that's a good start.

I have a feeling we should have started this like 10 years ago, everyone at the practice space look at us like we're some midlife crisis dudes :D
 
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