Friday, January 15, 2010

Your eBay item has been shipped (Right on the next day you paid).

Dear buyer,
Thanks so much for purchasing with us.
We have shipped the following item to you,right on the NEXT WORKING DAY you paid.
You should be receiving it in 7~15 WORKING days when shipping to UK,US,AU,and 7~21 WORKING days to EU,15~30 WORKING days to other countries as we state in the list.

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Well, you say that, but the fact is, that is a blatant lie. I paid for the item immediately after clicking "Buy It Now" and waited NINE DAYS before this e-mail arrived in my inbox. In fact, I bought another item from a different seller the day after this e-mail arrived, and I received the item today. As for the first item? Not here yet. Granted, it was a $2 case for my phone, but no positive reviews to be left here... I probably wouldn't have cared if it weren't for the e-mail with emphasis on "NEXT WORKING DAY."

The listing also said the case would be two pieces: one for the top half and another for the bottom. It isn't. It's just one piece for the bottom. For $2 it's not worth starting up a fuss.

The item that I ordered ten days after the case was a screen protector. I received it today and inside the packaging, there were two protectors. I thought, "oh, how nice of them" and proceeded to apply the protector.

I then found out why the package included two.

The screen protector is EXACTLY the same size as the area that can possibly be protected. This sounds like a good thing.

It isn't.

What this means in practice is that surgical precision is required in the placement of the screen protector. The edge of the screen on a Motorola Droid has plastic that is raised just slightly and if the protector edge sits on this, it doesn't adhere to the screen.

After much cajoling, the only things I got to adhere to were some dust particles on the sticky side of the screen protector. This caused bubbles to form, and the first protector was tossed.

Fortunately I was able to apply the second one almost properly, but this is by far the most difficult screen protector I have ever used.

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