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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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i got sick again so the financial update and also this thread are late. i'll get the financial update up at a later point, or i might just combine it with january since there's not that much to report as far as i can tell

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I am dealing with a combination of a shitstorm of overreaction and my own stupidity ๐Ÿฅฒ

I sent my niece and nephews a small gift from ebay. I usually message my sister to let her know to expect a package, but this time I just forgot to and got busy with other stuff. So yesterday comes around and I get a call from her saying that getting a hand addressed package to their kids from an address they didn't recognize freaked them out so much that they called the cops, who called the seller to find out who sent it.

Obviously they calmed down once they realized it was me, and I felt really bad about it so I messaged the seller on ebay to apologize for the inconvenience... only somehow without knowing how the goddamn interface on ebay works I managed to flag the message as a CANCEL ORDER REQUEST. So then I had to immediately message him again and be like haha oops no sorry not a cancel request! I don't know how to ebay!

Just kill me, I'm so embarrassed ๐Ÿ˜ญ

PS: if you are wondering if my sister and her husband are extremely sucked into the far right news sphere where everyone is trying to kidnap their kids with fentanyl... the answer is yes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Update: the seller was very understanding and chill about it. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Wow that's definitely an overreaction! If your sister was concerned wouldn't she just open it first, rather than letting the kids see it/do it? Or message people first to check if anyone sent it?

No good deed goes unpunished I guess! Glad it mostly worked out ok