Want to hear a funny story?
I have one.
It's quite long but I'm sure you'll all enojoy it.
About a month back, me and a fellow forum member you all know very well, DEROO, agreed for a card trade.
I was sending him a bunch of Zoro and Robin cards I had (including some Rs and SR from miracle battle sets) in exchange for 2 Omega Rare Blackbeard cards.
We wanted to have a trade back in March 2010,
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but something on his end went wrong and he had computer problems and all and it didnt't happen.
He was the one to come and ask me for a trade first in both cases.
Now it was all talked out and set and we agreed to send cards on the same day.
I sent my part out and Deroo said he recived them about 2 weeks back. All good. I even sold him some of the other cards I had later on but that's another story.
Now back to his part of the trade.
Here's a picture of him showing me the omega rare cards he was suppousted to send me, via email
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As you can see picture is pretty big, not something you can find on YAJ, very confident.
Then, he sent the cards out.
Since it was an equal trade, we agreed that each pays for shipping on his own and that we ship with a tracking number.
I provided him a tracking, but he didn't.
He said that instead he payed 14$ for fast airmail, but it had no option of tracking. Kind of weird since priority airmail is suppousted to have tracking anyway just like EMS. Also sending it that way was a waste of money since nothing gets here faster then 3 weeks anyway. But ok, thanks for that, no tracking - fine, it'll get here eventually.
I didn't doubt any of his words, but for some reason he took a picture of him at the post with a cheque.
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I belive you, man, no need for sending me a photo-proof that you sent an envelope via airmail to RUSSIA. But, eh, yes, you definitely did.
He kept asking me quite frequently for the past 2 weeks if I got cards yet, very often. I told him not to worry, that it takes up to a month time usually anyway, but he seemed very pushy on it.
And I finally did get his letter today.
Here's the envelope.
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You can see I circled my adress line with red, we'll be back to that later on. I don't really look into envelopes and boxes I get at first, I was joyfully opening it up - I was pretty happy I got it and that I'll finally have my 2 omega rares I've looked for for such a long time.
So I opened it up and
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and more
and finally
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Errr… what is this?
3 cards, regulars of Franky, Boa Marigold and Hannyabal from set 1?
All of which I have myself x4 each?
Errrrrrrrr... weird?
Shaking the envelope more, checking everything, nope, nothing else in.
I was literally sitting there speechless for about 5 minutes and trying to understand what just happend. It sure was a weird feeling.
Ok, perhaps people make mistakes.
I once sent 2 guys each other boxes (they were twin-brothers with the same family name and initials though, but eh).
But did somebody REALLY buy 3 shitty regulars of Franky, Marigold and Hannyabal and payed 14$ for the shipping while cards alltogether are worth 10 cents at best?
Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery doubtfull.
I wrote Deroo the following email:
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And he sent me a reply, and here's more of our conversation:
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Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~
Um.
Yeah.
Now, let's go back to the envelope for a bit.
I went into looking more into it and…
Something was off.
And by something i mean... 50% of my adress.
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My surname is Obiedkova, not O b e i k o v a.
And I'm Alina, not Alinal.
My apartament number is FAR from 39.
And the first part of zipcode is absolutely wrong.
WOW.
Either someone's very bad at writing…
or was trying to make the letter to get lost.
Since the city was writen correctly and my post-office workers know me very well it got into my hands without any problems or delays.
But would it ever get to me if it was otherwise? I don't think so...
And this is how it is.
Hope you had a good laugh.
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