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Published: September 6th 2007
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Flo, Me and Vinca
Flo, Me and Vinca at my friend Kev's flatwarming So since my last blog entry the have been some High's and some Low's, but Gran Tour/trip HQ is still in motion heading for d-day and i could not contain the excitement if i had the worlds largest jam jar...lol
As per previous entry's i have been a regular user of Ebay and Paypal, but a recent awful incident has soured my relationship and i would heed anyone reading out there to tread with caution using either service provider. it all boils down to me wanting to purchase an Ipod 80gb video for my impending travels and as i had purchased an Ipod for my friend from Ebay and my sister had gotten hers from Ebay i did not consider the consequences.
Im the sort of person that wont get anything unless i have the money and so i bid and won a black ipod on Ebay and paid straight up and few days go past and no response from the seller and no delivery of the Ipod. so i then email the seller several times and get a BS answer that he is away and will post on his return and then at the start of the following week i message again and i get a BS reply advising paypal have held the money and he will not post til he has the money. So i contact my bank and the money has gone, but they can not return it as it was an authorized payment and not taken fraudulently although id paid for goods and not received them which i term as theft. I then contact paypal (took 10 mins to get though and i only have a mobile and so it cost be about £4) they said payment had gone through and any issue with payment was at his end😞, so i emailed him again saying i wanted my Ipod as no payment issues and no response, got his phone number and no answer, i escalated the claim with ebay and then they told me he was no longer a member and that they had delisted all his items but after i had already won and paid. But they could not refund me, even though it was there fault and i would need to raise it with paypal and so i did raise with paypal and it took ten days and alot of money in phone calls and eventually they gave a refund, but not a full refund, i had paid £190.50 and only got back £150.
So i decided to get an Ipod from Amazon and will it cost a bit more, £203 to be precise, but i had faith from using the extra money was worth the security of getting what i paid for. So i got my Ipod yesterday and loaded it up in readiness for my computer to go to my friend who has bought my PC off me and well sods law prevails as yesterday they announced a new line up of Ipods and i got of got a new generation 80gb from amazon for £159..........lol, well we all live and learn and im perfectly happy with my Ipod.
My work sucks more than usual as i seem to be getting everyone elses work dumped on me aswell as my own and so im wishing the days away...........lol, well only two months and 19 days to go and another 29 days on top of that until i leave blighty.
Im going to visit my girlfriend in Denmark in a few weeks time and she will be on the road for her birthday for Christmas, so i had got a book as one pressie and i was planning to get a maglite for my Trip and turns out she would like one and so as her second pressie i got her a girlie purpley blue maglite and myself a silver maglite and a pretzl head torch. I don't think the is much more i need to get for my trip.
Pretty much now its just a few injections and deposits down on my Inca Trail trek and Amazon Trek and then deciding whether to get a greyhound discovery pass or an amtrak pass when i navigate across the US.
Im still undecided whether to get a LAN airpass and get some extra flights in South America and maximize my time there, well thats still on my to do list and will get ticked off in the last couple of months as i weigh up pros and cons and see how much cash i have to take away and not forgetting the all important insurance..........lol
I think with my trip to Denmark this month, that it will be a cheap beans on toast month, although life is still good and the bank holiday weekend i went to a flat warming party and ended up in a club after. So im not having a totally boring penny pinching time.....lmao
So my yellow fever and whatever else at the travel clinic is on the 12.09.07 and my Hep B booster is planned for the 24.09.07 and then i have to have another Hep B booster in October. I had purchased a sleeping bag for the trip (impulse buy as it was in the sale) and it is a good bag, however i think it will take up too much room and so im considering taking an older bag i have which i think i can get to compress pretty small, its only a two season bag and does not have a great temp range, however i think i will use a bag maybe a couple of times and then i can dump it without a care and so less weight later on.
I have my Lonely Planet guides now and so i have been doing some more reading and deciding which places i can include and which places to dismiss and i think by the time i go it will all be sorted, although its like anything subject to change and when im there i may add stuff and skip stuff for another time.
Well thats it for now............Ciao😊
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