Eris the catgirl is living up to her namesake, Eris the goddess of discord.

I chickened out and ordered another copy of the figurine from HobbyLink. And after a couple of days they sent me an acknowledgement. Only problem is that I loused up their order system, too, and somehow ended up with the default payment system, Paypal.

Now I dislike Paypal more than I think I can express. I don't trust them for beans. They won't take credit cards, or they wouldn't last time I made a serious attempt to deal with them. Instead, they wanted me to give them the access information for my checking account, which effectively meant they could go in and take whatever they wanted, any time they wanted.

Yeah, I know why they do that. You don't have to tell me. But in reducing their risk, they're maximizing mine, and that's not something I'm willing to accept.

Anyway, I've exchanged a few emails with HLJ and I think I've got it straightened out to get my credit card charged instead. I hope.

By tomorrow I think I'll know. I hope so, because if I understand the first email they sent me, then if this hasn't been straightened out by Monday they're going to cancel my order.

By the way, their price is about $30 less than JList's.

Anyway, I haven't had anything like this kind of trouble with mailorder in a long time, and I think it's because Eris is hexing me. Are we really sure she isn't the Greek goddess after all?

UPDATE: It isn't because of Japan. I haven't had any trouble with CDJapan or Amazon JP. My orders with them all went very smoothly.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 07:26 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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