Gymmoms Ramblings
Archive - June 2007

I don't know if Sweet is still here but will someone please explain match ups to me?? Please???

I just don't get it.  Can you blog there?  Is there a benefit to selling there?  Can you sell there?  What is the pull?  I don't get it.  Explain please.

Here is my first blog from July 26th, 2006. Somethings never change! Wow.

Dealing With Unsavory Ebay Feedback Leavers

At one time or another, all of us on Ebay have to deal with the neutral and negative feedbacks that are totally undeserved. I hate it. I received a neutral from a buyer last week and emailed her. Her feedback for me said, ok, in ther form of a neutral. She said, oh sorry. I share my ebay account with my son and he must have left it. I loved my shoes though. When I checked her feedback, I saw she several neutrals for others as well. The sellers then left neutrals for her that said, why are you leaving me a neutral so I saw a pattern, unfortunately it was after I already sold her an item. I left her a negative feedback because even though she apologized to me and told me she loved my item, she did not bother to remove her feedback. I suppose I can ask for a mutual withdrawal, but she so deserves the neg I left her. Had some of the other sellers left neg fdbk for her, maybe she would stop the neutrals. I wish there was a way to stay clear of these buyers. They truly shouldn't be purchasing on Ebay if they are so unhappy with everything they buy. I won't even go into the people who just thrive on leaving negs for no reason. Or leave neg fdbk after trying to scam.

Rough night. No coffee this morning. But ebay put a smile on my face, imagine that!!

Morning!  Had a slow start (still moving at a turtles pace) but when I checked my feedback I smiled bigtime!!  Two buyers both left some really nice feedback.  Take a look.  I imagine the rest of my day will be better.  Haven't had coffee yet though so I might go to Starbucks shortly.  Anyone have anything exciting going on today?

Old timers hello!!! Hello to the old gang of bloggers. Hello to the newer gang too. Stop by to say hi!

I see lots of old friends here this morning.  I saw noelles and kitty and a few others.  And my new friends like Darleen, sunbeam, twinight to name a few.  Don't feel bad if i left you out.  Just stop in!

I have never done anything like this before but this piece of crap buyer deserved it.

I had a new unverified buyer buy a pair of flip flops last night with a buy it now.  Then this morning, they decided to buy a leather jacket with a buy it now.  I emailed them and asked that they kindly get in touch with me before purchasing any further items.  I just got home from dinner a little while ago and checked my auctions and this loser is NARU.  Jeeez Louise~!!!!!!!  I already got my fvf back but I just lost out in almost 5.00 in insertion fees.  I sent a pretty nasty email to this loser.  I NEVER do that but it really pissed me off.  It is too late for me to relist the items now because I don't want my auctions ending after 11pm PST.  I will also lose the whole day tomorrow because I like my auctions to end at night.  What a loser.  I am mighty pissed right now.  Of course I will get over it but I needed to vent to people that understand.  I HATE npb's.  The scurge of the ebay universe.

Ok. Gotta know who is here. A.M. Roll call please!

Gymmomj here!

Good morning all!! Gymmomj finally stopping in to chat.

I have been up since 5am.  It is just after 6:30 now.  I swear my little chihuahua reminds me of when my now 15 yr old daughter was a baby.  As soon as it is light out she starts stirring.  I am down with a cold since yesterday and feel crappy but at least I am in one place and sitting still today.  I have missed you guys.  So wassup witchoo?

It has been forever. How are you, my blog buddies?

I have been really busy with Ebay and life in general.  My kids just left this morning to spend 2 weeks with their dad, stepmom, and their two little sisters to visit his family back east.  They will be at the Jersey shore at a beach house for 8 days.  LUCKY.  This is the longest I will have ever been away from them.  Considering my life is totally focused around them for the past just about 17 years (she'll be turning 17 on Friday without me, sniff sniff) it is going to be weird.  Guess it will give me a taste of what it will be like when she (gasping for air) leaves for college next summer.  Better not go there or I will cry all day thinking about it.  Anyway, should be pretty quiet her for the next two weeks.  I am going to Vegas next weekend with the bfriend.  Should be a blast.  So how the heck you guys?  Have I missed any drama?

Roll call time. I am finally here. So who is here with me?

So I finally get here and the blogs are super quiet.  So tell me, who is here?

We hear it over and over. You can't fix stupid. Vent post. Argh!!!

You guys have heard me whining about my A/C being out on the top floor of my place since Thursday afternoon.  The A/C guy came here on Friday and couldn't get the compressor part on Friday to fix it.  He told me maybe Sat but I wasn't expecting anything and that's good, cause that is exactly what happened on Sat.  NADA.  No calls from the A/C guy, nothing.  Fast forward this morning.  My phone rings right at 8 and the A/C guy says we will be out there first thing.  I say great, thank you!!!  It was a really tough weekend.  He then mentions btw, that someone rang my bell on Sat because they had the compressor and figured they would stop by.  EXCUSE ME!!!  Someone stopped by, like without calling so I could be there?  Now I know you know how to use a telephone because you are on it with me right now.  Don't you think it would have been prudent to CALL me to let me know you had the part?  Don't you think i would have dropped F***ING  EVERYTHING and been there to have my A/C working in the 100 plus degree temps?  I was at Target down the street about 5 minutes tooling around because it was too f***ing hot in my house.  Jeez Louise!  How f***ing dumb.  They stopped by.  Nice of them.  So for 2 more days, we suffered needlessly in a hot house.  Had to have the windows open which bring me to number 2 idiot.  My neighbor who is pretty close, is out talking on his phone at 5:20am this morning in his backyard in a loud booming voice.  Like DUDE, other people live here too.  You are alone in that house.  Talk INSIDE if you have speak loudly.  There are other people around.  Since my windows and bedroom door were open, my dogs went tearing ass to the backyard yapping it up.  I had to chase them, get them back in and you know that was it for my sleep.  Well, what sleep?  It was too hot.  Anyway, they should be here soon to fix the A/C.  Too bad they can't fix the STUPID TOO.  Thanks for listening.......

Good morning bloggers. It is a beautiful day here in the desert! At least I think it will be. Still cloudy at 6:12 am. Hope it stays that way!

I hope it stays cloudy because my upstairs A/C is still down.  I sure hope they get the compressor and come and fix it today.  It is pretty hot here in AZ and one most definitely needs their A/C working right.  This is for my upstairs where all the bedrooms are.  I have not slept well since it went on Thurs afternoon.  Either choose and hot rooms or the couch.  I do have an air mattress but no one can find the pump to blow it up so I will go and replace that today.  I am one tired puppy.  Anyway, not sure when the A/C guys are in but I will start trying to call at 8.  In the meantime, I have a pot of coffee brewing to wake me up.  So wassup withchoo?

Over 40? Under 40? Betcha can't do this perfectly!!! Funny stuff from Gymmomj

The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School
of Psychiatry at Harvard University . Take your time and see if you
can read each line aloud without a mistake. The average person over
40 years of age cannot do it!

1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fart cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.

Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down
and betcha' you cannot resist passing it on.___


Oh my goodness, there's a whole lotta watchin' goin' on!!

Now I would sure love some of those folks who are watchin' to start buyin'!  I have a feeling it is going to be a great weekend.  Then again, sometimes when there are tons of watchers, that is all they do.  So how's your Sat going?

OMG!!! It is so hot upstairs. We are going to be fighting for the couch downstairs!!!

OMG.  It is so frikkin hot.  My upstairs A/C unit went on the fritz yesterday afternoon and they came out to fix it this morning.  The compressor is gone (I have a home warranty so it will be replaced) but they did not have one and still might not tomorrow either.  Oh, did I foget to tell you I live in Phoenix, FORT STINKIN' AZ?  It was over 100 today and it is 87 up here right now.  Sheeee-ittttt.  So my daughter already claimed the couch downstairs but I just might blow up the air mattress and put it in the basement.  I have 3 levels, three A/C units.  It would be the top floor that goes out before a weekend.  HELP!! Get the ice.

Hey. I just noticed my feedback is where it should be on the blogs.

Guess ebay fixed their glitch that had me 5173 for what seemed forever.  Yay.

Anyone having issues receiving auction ended emails from ebay? I am not getting them.

I had 10 auctions end tonight and did not receive one "auction ended" email.  I received a couple of questions which is more important of course but it makes me wonder if I am not getting some other emails.  Whenever possible, i always have my buyers email me directly and not thru ebay's email system.  I have noticed not getting a few in the last few days as well.  It is amazing how many messages are floating around in cyberspace.  So anyone else having this issue.

Hello from Fort Stinkin Desert. Actually, it is a bit cooler today. How are you?

Morning.  I actually have a few minutes to sit down and chat.  What's new in your neck of the woods.  I had some periodontal surgery yesterday on the upper left, and I am in a bit of hurt this morning but i will survive.  In two weeks we will do the lower right and then a ton of other stuff.  Should be done by October!  I hate having dental work done but I am seeing one of the best out there in the AZ area.  
Ebay sales are plodding along and I have some really great stuff listed.  Hope it picks up a bit.  

Now I know there are more than 5 of you here on the blogs right now so let's try that again. SUNDAY ROLL CALL!!!

Are you moseying or lurking this morning!!!!  I am actually kinda crawling.  So what word would describe you this morning (or afternoon or evening depending what part of the world you are blogging from)?

Sunday roll call. Who is moseying or lurking about!!

Happy Sunday!  I am incredibly groggy from a great party at my place last night.  It was so much fun and had a pretty good turn out.  Don't think I am going to be doing much today.  I might go and look for some new eyeglass frames.  I am tired of mine.  Exciting, I know.  So who is here???

Murphy's Law!!!! Gymmomj is S.OL. LOL!! Well I am not really laughing. ARGH!!!

So here's the deal.  Since paypal is down and I have several packages to ship, AND I HATE paying for deliv conf, I decided to try to go directly to the USPS website.  I have two working computers mind you, a PC and a MAC.  I go thru the sign up crap on my MAC and get to a point where it won't let me go further but my MAC is connected to my laser printer which is what I use to print my labels.  So, I go to my PC to do the sign up thing again, and get that done.  Now my PC has windows vista so it isn't compatible with my laser printer yet because HP doesn't have the drivers available yet.  Another story of a computer tantrum post, trust me!!  Anyway, my PC came with a free crappy little suck the ink out in 4 copies printer but it is a printer.  Well, barely.  So I am signed up now and go on my MAC to print the labels. Guess what.  Can't use my browser.  It is Safari and the USPS only is compatible with Explorer or Netscape which of course is not compatible with the MAC.  I sign on again with my PC, get to the test print because this browser IS Explorer and you guessed it, the shit ass crappy printer is out of ink.  So I am S O FRIGGIN L.  I am laughing because otherwise both computers would be going right out my 2nd story window.  Guess it is off to the damn p.o. and I will have to pay for deliv conf on each package.  Please tell me you feel my pain!!!

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