Yay T-shirt!

[asterroc]

I've finally FINALLY received the Music+Science=Sexy T-shirt! They'd stopped talking to me for a bit, but then I called up my Discover card and let them know about it (yay Discover, immediately gave me back the price out of their own pocket, and the contacted PayPal to see about things on their end), and let QCMerch know about it as well, and we agreed that they'd try a third attempt at shipping it to me, but to my office address. And it made it through sometime during the last two weeks while I was at Astrocamp. Yay! I called up Discover card to set everything straight.

So on the end of this all, I'm still baffled as to what happened to the first two attempts. They were both shipped to my home address, and I've never had anything stolen that was shipped to me before. I'm also inclined to trust the people at QC - they seem like real people, and if they were untrustworthy the whole scam would've fallen apart by now. Perhaps there was just some fatal flaw in the shipping method and my address that they had, but then you'd think it'd be returned to sender, so I really don't know. But in the end, I paid for a shirt and got it, and the people at QC apparently took the loss of shipping two extra shirts out into the ether. So go buy stuff from them. Just have it shipped to your workplace, and don't wait 3 months if it doesn't show to say something.

Comments

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

yay! if i had $$ i would buy QC shirts. actually, i do have money, but i don't have a credit card. so...yeah.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Your parents can add you to one of their cards if they're willing. Or if you have a bank account that you control you can setup a paypal account w/ funds in it from that. Though, if you had a bank account you would probably also have a debit card that's backed by a credit company so in effect you would have a credit card.

If you tend to be responsible w/ your money, I'd say get a credit card as soon's you turn 18 (my first was Citibank Mastercard for College Students) so you can build a good credit history. If you tend to NOT be responsible with money, having a credit card might be too strong a temptation. Don't get one, and use your debit card in its place only when you have to.