xkcd - xtremely krappy...nevermind

Update: Seems as though I am not alone in this

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17346&p=488825&hilit=store#p488825
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16825&p=466072&hilit=store#p466072
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16266&p=443038&hilit=store#p443038

Happy New Year, time for a new post. Flaming time again I believe.

Back in November I decided I wanted to buy a nerdy t-shirt from xkcd, which for those of you who don't know, is a relatively popular webcomic/blog/online shop. They had a notice in their store citing a date by which orders must be placed in order to guarantee delivery before Christmas. Wanting my t-shirt before Christmas I placed my order on November 13th i.e. prior to the aforementioned date. About a month later I mailed the guy to check on the order and he replied:

I'm afraid we are not currently equiped to track international orders.

-davean

Fair enough, still a week or so until Christmas...but sure enough Christmas passed, the new year rang in and still no t-shirt. I mailed the guy again but he didn't reply. A week after that I mailed once more and the fucker continued to ignore my mails. So ultimately I decided to open a dispute on PayPal. I'd done this once before with success so I thought why not. I'm not letting this little prick have my €30 without an e-fight. However, much to my chagrin, PayPal's dispute resolution policy states that the complaint must be made with 45 days of payment. Bollox.

So I guess he wins. I lose. I'm not particularly bothered about not having the t-shirt or losing €30, I'm well aware of the risks of so-called e-commerce. But hopefully someone will read this and decide against buying a t-shirt from this pendejo.