When Cheap Screws You

Yo boyz,

So I wanted to get an external hard drive, but instead of buying a package deal, I thought I could get a hard drive and a case for cheaper. Turns out I was right. I bought a 160GB HDD from Premier Computers Canada (www.pccanada.com) in Etobicoke as well as an external enclosure for the HDD. Got it home, and the doofus packed the wrong HDD. Took the damn thing back and exchanged it for the right one, got home again, and the piece o' shit enclosure won't deliver power to the hard drive.

So I get on the phone with PC Canada, and tell them they sell shit, and I will be in the next day for a full refund. I hang up, and start removing the hard drive from the enclosure, and the damn thing starts to fall apart on me - no friggin joke. A transitor popped off, and then the IDE cable basically disintegrated on me when I tried to disconnect it from the HDD. Needless to say, I couldn't return it, and had to eat the $50 that it cost me. I went to my local computer store and picked up another enclosure for $80, and it works fine now.

This, on top of the fact that some bastard from the US now has $250 of my money and decided NOT to ship the iPod that they sold me. Turns out I am not the only one this f*cker screwed, either. He signed up on eBay, racked up some positive feedback by selling stuff to other fake accounts, and then buggered off with my money plus at least a few other hundred dollars for some other guy's iPod, and some Tiffany jewelry. My problem is that I didn't go through eBay - s/he claimed to have another iPod available, so I paid for it through PayPal, but not eBay. According to PayPal, they will attempt to recover the money, but it is not guaranteed. I am seriously pissed.

At least if they say things happen in threes, I am done with the bad mojo.

On the plus side, I start a new job in the morning. I am excited. Will let you know how it goes.