More "waiting for" than "pre-ordered", but:
Me &
CranberryRiddles (a 'silent-site-member' here - who I've known for a long time from other places); have been putting together a somewhat sizeable "order" (I'm buying/he's selling) of a bunch of games 'n' guides for close to a year now.
Turns out that once every November, his work brings him to my area.
So, to cut-out shipping costs, do a face-to-face transaction instead of anonymously through the mail, and really (for me, at least) I was pretty psyched about meeting someone irl that I've only known on-line for a long time...we decided to just meet-up and take care of everything while he was here for work...
...of course...SANDY fucked that up for us quite nicely
At any rate, we should be completing the deal any day dow (him sending & me paying). I guess that one way of looking at Sandy as a *GOOD* thing (other than the Toyota that I'd been trying to sell for months (w/ NO interest shown in it) for $8,000...being totaled-out by my insurance company for $11,000 (they even paid very quickly & towed it away pretty fast, too)) - would also be that this whole order (~$500 worth) will now be "Christmas-Listed" to my g/f & family rather than me paying for it out of my own pocket
Pretty psyched for the incoming/new items!
Feeling bad for whoever ends up doing all of the gift-wrapping for all of this...yep...my family's funny like that...even if someone already knows *exactly* what they're getting...they still bother taking the time to wrap it all up
*Random* P.S.:
After towing away the totaled car - my insurance company asked me if I'd be interested in buying it back from them for
$2,000?!
Anyone here work in insurance or knowledgeable enough about it that can explain to me why a company would pay me $11,000 to total the car...and then give me the option to buy it back (potentially re-selling it "again" for more) for
$9,000 *LESS* than what they'd just paid?
It seems ridiculous to me
