Good Morning everyone, on this beautiful, sunny, -10C, bright and shining morning! Just having a coffee, while I tell you this story.
I did buy that Athearn Roundhouse RS3 that I had posted a picture of the other day. It was purchased online from my LHS, and I chose to use PayPal. I'm now thinking that was a big mistake!
Yesterday, the LHS called me and told me they could not complete the order because they could not ship to a US address.
WHAT!!! All of a sudden, bells and whistles started going off in my head: I thought for sure a criminal scammer was at work.
I can tell you, evil thoughts entered into my head. I was prepared to spend the rest of the day finding him so I could stomp on his garden flowers and take his daughter out on a date, not to be brought home until the following morning.
Anyway, I wound up arranging a 'safer way to pay' with the LHS, so they could ship the model. Then I contacted PayPal and finally had everything resolved; although it was a difficult, merry-go-round, bunch of bullshit process. No one ever did tell me how an American address got on as my shipping address, when PayPal themselves only list my real, Canadian address.
I will not be using PayPal again, anytime soon.
Enough with the ranting! The day is too fine, and I can now look forward to receiving a new RS3 to look at; because I don't even have a layout yet. That's going to change, though.
Thankyou for all the likes on my simple posts in the past.
With big modelling plans for today (I'm alone today), I'm not going to spend a lot of time with my face planted in this screen. I do come back frequently, and read everything. So, Ill leave you with a photo of some local rail activity, and get on with business for now:
All Have a Great Day!
Guy