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View attachment 874699 friends! Hoping everyone is safe and healthy today. About a month ago, I ordered an rba for one of my AIO's from sourcemore. Took about two weeks for it to finally ship. Then it sat in the dispatch center for another 6 days. Finally gets to Los Angeles usps a few days ago and has been sitting there. Yesterday, I get these. How on earth does a package leave the same usps center twice on the same day?

"Hello Rob Bond,

Your item departed our USPS facility in LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER on March 14, 2020 at 8:52 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination."

and then later...

"Hello Rob Bond,

Your item departed our USPS facility in LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER on March 14, 2020 at 7:05 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination."

And still no :censored: delivery date.o_O:mad::-x:nah: Ordered the same rba plus some replacement coils from FT on 1/28/2020, and still no movement at all from them. Sent them an email 5 days ago and still no response.


Still better than that time (and it was the one and only time because i poolisted Nude) i ordered nic from Nude Nic

Overcharged me on the shipping - their website didnt save the freight option properly in the cookie so as you progressed through the purchasing steps, behind the scenes, on their webserver, it chose the most expensive freight option, which you werent aware of until after they'd billed you. Seems it only affected places where freight was expensive to send to...like australia. I believe i called it [emoji2398]Auto-Gouge on my email to them (i went on to find out they did this on purpose as they were in cahoots with the freight company). Was promised the overcharge would be refunded within 48 hours

Two weeks later, having heard nothing form them i sent another email, asking where a) my order was and b) where my (overcharge) refund was. Was given a tracking code

Checked tracking code and it didnt exist yet

A week later tracking code changed to active and package in L.A. it said,hmm maybe ill get my order...eventually

No response from Nude to any emails....

A week later tracking code changed to active and package in Australia....but they'd obviously given me somebody elses tracking number to string me along, which worked up until hit Australia, and was then diverted to Perth.

At which point the jig was really up

No emails from Nude after they sent the false tracking number, send about a dozen attempts

Had to dispute the charge with my bank, who thankfully could see no package had ever been sent to me and gave me the money back a week later.

About 3 weeks later (2 months after i placed the order) i get a notice from my local post office that a package from Nude is there. I declined to accept it so that Nude would get it back, at their expense. Other people told me i should have kept it and the money, but i dont roll like that. They hadnt even realised id challenged the payment to them and gotten my money back.

I even sent Nude an email saying that id reversed the payment and declined to accept the package and it was on the way back to them. Like earlier, i never heard back from them

Bunch of clowns

Better still than my first ever nic order ever, from MFS, they had done what i came to find out from others here, and sent the oldest brownest nic they could find..."no one here will buy that, we'll send it to the aussies, they wont return it because the postage is outrageous".....first vape company on my poolist
 
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Morning all!

DIL wants me to watch the kids a few days. They are ALL picky eaters, which normally I don’t mind, but I don’t have anything in the house they’ll eat.

I told her, bring groceries- I’ll pay for them, but I do not have the energy to face the crowds for them lol.

On my home forum, a member suggested that people, in these troubling times, should:

keep their snotty parasites at home

I replied that i wanted kids absent from shopping centres in normal times, and suggested that a compromise might be that:

People should only be allowed to take kids out in public if they put them in vacuum sealed bags

Yes, im single ladies
 

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We had a run on grocery stores here. One of our Costcos made national news. I went and stocked up on food on Friday morning. Good thing I did; by Friday night moat places were cleaned out. I wasn't going to stoxkpile as much as I did but figured I had better because the way people are hoarding, we wouldn't be able to get anything later.
That's what's known as a run on a grocery store...shame on you :D:D:D
 

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View attachment 874699 friends! Hoping everyone is safe and healthy today.

About a month ago, I ordered an rba for one of my AIO's from Sourcemore. Took about two weeks for it to finally ship. Then it sat in the dispatch center for another 6 days. Finally gets to Los Angeles usps a few days ago and has been sitting there. Yesterday, I get these. How on earth does a package leave the same usps center twice on the same day?

"Hello Rob Bond,

Your item departed our USPS facility in LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER on March 14, 2020 at 8:52 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination."

and then later...

"Hello Rob Bond,

Your item departed our USPS facility in LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER on March 14, 2020 at 7:05 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination."

And still no :censored: delivery date.o_O:mad::-x:nah: Ordered the same rba plus some replacement coils from FT on 1/28/2020, and still no movement at all from them. Sent them an email 5 days ago and still no response.
Maybe there are two packages..hope you're well Rob :)
 

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You could try the favorites of most kids, PB&J, Grilled Cheese, Tomato soup, and Cereal just to name a few.

I raised two picky eaters, and they’d eat peanut butter, but none of those other things. I’m just not familiar with what they get day to day. Easier for mom, and she doesn’t mind.
 

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:lol: the only thing you listed that my kid would eat would be cereal!
Kids are always a wild card. As soon as my son got teeth, he lived on barbecue pork chops. He didn’t even like candy. If I took a bunch of kids to McDonald’s he’d want a salad happy meal lol.

My daughter would eat no fruit except our apples, and sometimes strawberries but only uncut, tops still on. She literally cried if she saw anyone eat a grape.
 

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I agree with you, but when a place that is constantly full of people is empty it can be a bit unsettling.
My friend here said there’s hardly any fares to pick up. He’s gone to pickup and delivery of prepaid grocery/pharmacy orders for people staying home.
Nothing shiny exciting coming. Got 5 packs of 100 prebuilt coils yesterday (no, I didn’t think that one through, at least the boxes are small lol and all together @ $10). MVS finally relented and replaced a returned bum mod, now oos, by breaking up a kit. They wanted me to take a store credit, but they’re out of everything else I could use. And I didn’t want a credit hanging there with deeming, stock outages and people stocking up depleting what they do get quickly. Once I pointed that out, they were willing to break up a kit. Mod should be here tomorrow
 

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Kids are always a wild card. As soon as my son got teeth, he lived on barbecue pork chops. He didn’t even like candy. If I took a bunch of kids to McDonald’s he’d want a salad happy meal lol.

My daughter would eat no fruit except our apples, and sometimes strawberries but only uncut, tops still on. She literally cried if she saw anyone eat a grape.
I have a meat and potato kid! Same thing with the pork chops :lol::w00t::hubba:
 

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Good morning Shiny's
Well the virus is about 80-90 miles up the road creeping down south to us. Packaged meat is getting scarce in the stores that carry good products.

Look at it this way. If there’s no food to be found, the absence of toilet paper won’t be nearly as troublesome.
 

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The world has changed forever. We can now see how fragile the whole system is.

Maybe a new era of self reliance is on the way and countries like Aus that have gradually closed down most manufacturing and left it all to the Chinese will wake up and rebuild essential industries.
 

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Look at it this way. If there’s no food to be found, the absence of toilet paper won’t be nearly as troublesome.
Absence of TP?
No worries. $15 at the hardware store, and never worry again:
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edit: No, I didn't do it...I have an aversion to shockingly cold water in my "sensitive regions." I'd rather use and wash old socks or something!
 
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That's what's known as a run on a grocery store...shame on you :D:D:D
Well, I ended up buying enough food and water for a few weeks. Not enough toilet paper and bottled water for 3 years:). I bought a bottle of Vodka as a tasty disinfectant lol liquor store shelves are full. Didn't expect that...
 

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My friend here said there’s hardly any fares to pick up. He’s gone to pickup and delivery of prepaid grocery/pharmacy orders for people staying home.
Nothing shiny exciting coming. Got 5 packs of 100 prebuilt coils yesterday (no, I didn’t think that one through, at least the boxes are small lol and all together @ $10). MVS finally relented and replaced a returned bum mod, now oos, by breaking up a kit. They wanted me to take a store credit, but they’re out of everything else I could use. And I didn’t want a credit hanging there with deeming, stock outages and people stocking up depleting what they do get quickly. Once I pointed that out, they were willing to break up a kit. Mod should be here tomorrow
Fares have dropped off significantly. I am also on Postmates but haven't done it in a while since it is usually slow. They shut down the entire food and beverage department where I used to work. Everybody got laid off. I had applied back there for a pool job for the summer but that isn't happening. I was also working on joining the Teamsters to work the conventions but that is also done for a while. A friend of mine who has had a business doing events since the 90's is closing shop. Everything has come to a standstill. I had an interview at Dominoes last night as a driver and am waiting for the background check now. I figured I should take whatever I could get before everybody is looking for work. I think they will be really busy and I can get by on that for a while.
 

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The world has changed forever. We can now see how fragile the whole system is.

Maybe a new era of self reliance is on the way and countries like Aus that have gradually closed down most manufacturing and left it all to the Chinese will wake up and rebuild essential industries.

The system has always been fragile, it’s just most of us are not old enough to have lived through other difficult times.

My great grandparents were potato famine immigrants, my mom was a depression baby.

Maybe none of us, personally, have been through anything like this, but it would serve us well to remember that one or more of our predecessors did, and we carry their genes and their strength.

I think you’re right though, that people and countries could become more self-reliant. I hope so.
 

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On my home forum, a member suggested that people, in these troubling times, should:



I replied that i wanted kids absent from shopping centres in normal times, and suggested that a compromise might be that:



Yes, im single ladies
Yeah, took a little offense to this.
However I should keep Emma at home. Shouldn't expose her to idiots paranoid buying TP and water.

My kids are better behaved and cleaner than most adults.
 

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