Knuckleheads are everywhere!

So, I thought that the internet would have been a bit different than retail, but really, it's not. Knuckleheads are everywhere, and they're reproducing....

So, I am trying to start a little mini business where I sell phone charms on ebay. Well, there was this one woman that bought something of mine, she was/is my first sale ever! Let me start off by saying that I am new to ebay, so I don't know everything, and shipping was a bit confusing for me. (Like Ebay just says to ship the item, but then doesn't specify on instructions)  I listed an item for sale, and added a few pictures for the item. Each picture had phone charms, with different color strings. In the description for the item, I specifically stated that I am only selling the charm with the black string, and that I will sell the others of other colors for another time. Since I haven't sold on ebay before, I don't know exactly what I am doing yet, and don't want to get ahead of myself.
After the person purchased the item, I mailed the item two days later, and then after I had mailed it, she asked me if she could have one of the charms in a different color. I told her that I had already mailed it, so then she says she bought another one of my items. Mind you, this was a conversation that lasted a few days, she bought the second item three days later from the first purchase.
So, I mailed the one item on Saturday March 29. There was a problem with her purchase, it was still pending after a week, and since I am new to ebay, I didn't know I had to check my emails for a purchase confirmation.

As I stated already, I put in the description for the item, that I was only selling the charm with the black strap. It was obvious to me that she did NOT read the description where I said I was only selling the charm with the black strap, I ended up deleting the pictures for the other colored charms to make sure this would not happen again.
I ended up mailing the next item the following week, exactly a week apart because the purchase didn't go through yet, which was my fault because I didn't know of the email confirmation.
On ebay, when you ship the item, you have to click this little button on the item that says you shipped the item. I waited until I had shipped the second item to press the button that says the item was shipped, this would appear on the customer's purchase screen and would say the item was shipped. It doesn't pop up on the customer saying it was shipped though, if they happen to go on their purchase page and specifically look at that particular icon, they will know it was shipped. Which is something that I do when I make a purchase on ebay, this way I know when it is shipped.

Fast forward to two weeks later, I find out that I got good feedback on the first item. It wasn't until minutes later I noticed something funny. The customer opened a case on me for the other item!
On ebay, there is something called a case. A case is when the buyer doesn't get an item and they open a case so they can get their item or money back.
The customer says that she got the first item, but not the other, she also told me she had to go to the post office to retrieve her item. I do not know why it didn't go to her house! As I just mentioned, I sent both items a week apart. It was obvious to me that she did not read the little icon that says when the item was shipped.
If she had noticed the shipped icon, she may not have opened a case in the first place.
Even though she bought the item days apart, for some reason she thought she was going to get both items at the same time, and therefore opened a case on me. I have heard that opening a case on a seller on ebay is very bad, and can hurt the seller. So of course my first customer had to go ahead and hurt my reputation when I have just started!
Not to mention she gave me positive feedback for the one item, and negative for the other, which looks very bizarre since both are from the same person.
I sent her a message explaining that I sent them a week a part and that the item may not have gotten to her house or post office yet, she did not respond to me.  I asked her if she could change the negative feedback she gave me to neutral, she instead gave me positive feedback a few days later, which was nice enough.
For some reason, she never thought about the fact that she bought both items days apart. I don't understand why she would have thought she would get both items at the same time, when she purchased them at different times! Regardless whether or not she saw the little shipping icon, the fact of the matter is, she bought them at two separate times! How in the world would she think that she'd get them both at the same time?

I thought this buyer was cool because she was nice when she messaged me, and she said she would give me good feedback. All she did was backstab me by giving me a bad score, and then asked for her money back when she didn't even wait to contact me to see if I could fix the problem. Yes, she did not contact me at all about this. I would have helped her out, but instead she just decided to do things her way. So, I was screwed out of the money for the one item because I gave her a refund for the second item. I was just so freaked out when it happened that I didn't give it time for her to respond to my message to see if it was just time that she needed for the item to be delivered, but I had to answer in a week or ebay would have made it ugly.
Basically, she got two for the price of one and screwed me out of not only 7 dollars, but also the envelope and stamp that I paid for to deliver the item.  I actually made my other items a little bit more money just so I could get back the money I lost from this whole ordeal.

If she thought my item took forever, then she would not want to order the things I buy on ebay to make my charms, sometimes they take up to a month to receive!

It would have been nice if Ebay had some section where it tells you exactly what to do step by step, if they do, I missed it, otherwise the item going to the customer's post office may not have happened. Without any direction, I get lost pretty easily and I could have avoided the entire situation.

I did learn a few things though.

• Be very specific when listing an item, if you show multiple items, but only sell one item in that listing. it may confuse the customer and they may think that you are selling more kinds of items in one listing, or that they get to pick, when they don't.

• People don't read! So, even if you make a specific statement in the bio of the listing, does not mean they will read it..which is also why you must be specific with pictures and the title name.

• Always send a message to the customer when you have shipped the item! This way they do not get confused on anything and specifically know when the item was shipped!

I'm very bummed about my first online sale being good and bad, but at least it is a learning experience and I can find out what to do so I can do it the right time for the next time.

How to make money online!

This is a blog post on how to make money online! *Insert people saying yay here*.

• Sell things to online stores such as Ebay, Amazon, Etsy and ArtFire. Sell things that you've had laying around the house, or make something awesome to sell online!

• Join sites that allow you to make money for posting on forums.  Such as "Post Loop".

• Create a blog on sites such as blogger and wordpress,  make money by putting ads on your blog. Each view is like 2 cents, so if you get lot's of views, you can make a little money on the side.
Or get a Patreon, and allow visitors to donate to you.

• Make a youtube account, if you're good and get lot's of views you can become a youtube partner and make some money!

• This one is a tricky one, but if you join sites like Inbox Dollars, you can do surveys and stuff and eventually make some extra pocket cash.
These sites can be tricky though, you have to be careful and make sure the site is legit. The following I found.

Inbox Dollars
Nature Bucks
Opinion Outpost
Shutterstock
Survey Lion

• Survey sites! Survey sites where you take surveys and make money by doing them!

• Fivver, is a site where you can do anything for 5 dollars!

 For other ideas, check out this link

Throwback Thursday! Post One.

Okay, so I am probably going to start making a blog post every Thursday, instead of any day of the week. This is for two reasons. 1. I work in retail, and get Thursdays off the most (I haven't worked a Thursday for three months!) 2. I forgot the second reason, but reason 1 was good enough imo.

Today I am going to do a Throwback Thursday because, I don't have material for this week, and it's already 11 PM.

I do have 7 drafts however, I figure it's easier to edit a post each day, than to just take an hour to make it (For the bigger ones it takes an hour, this post is like 5 minutes).
If curious, I have the following titles I am working on in my drafts folder on the blog.
Must Play: Kya Dark Lineage, Must Play: Chrono Cross, Why I don't like Politics, What I think about Guns, The Many times I was verbally harassed in retail, Teen Wolf is the new Supernatural and Idiots are Everywhere. The last one I will be posting next week. These titles will be posts in the future, just as long as I am not eaten by the deadly zombie potato monster that is hiding under my bed!

So, for Throwback Thursday. I was reminded about my old friends, back when I used to live near New York City. I had my cousin, and two other people, my one friend was the only girl in the group, and I had known for a while that she moved to Florida (Which is now pronounced Flow-Rye-Duuuh, FYI :P
If you don't get the reference, just watch the video on youtube titled Awkward by Miles Jai, which I did post on this blog.)
But, it's so amazing how time flies, and how you knew people, and they aren't in your life anymore, but there is still a string that still attaches you to them. You haven't lost them completely, and you want to hold onto that string, and never let go! I was surprised to find out that she is bi and has a girlfriend, I was like... how did I not know this?

Here is Throwback Thursday's video of the day. This is a video by Venetian Princess that I originally saw in 2009. It's a Taylor Swift Parody titled : Just a Zombie.

The real me? Now in lemon flavor!

You've never seen such a "beautifal lamon" before!

Okay, so this took me almost a year to write.. like I started this post in Summer of 2013 and it is now spring of 2014... I gotta get it together, you know?!

What people see online and what people see In "ze" real world, they are both me, but at the same time they're not.
People that I know In Real Life tend to be confused, and utterly shocked when they friend me on facebook and see how more open I am.
My Real Life Persona - IRL I am rather shy, quiet and reserved. I don't usually speak my mind and there are tons of things that I want to tell people, but I never do.
My humor IRL is more sarcastic and dry humor.

My Online Persona - Online, I'm not afraid of anyone or anything. I'm open about almost everything, my interests, personal life, sexuality, just about everything.
My humor Online can be sarcastic and dry at times, but I am more random funny. (Like in the title)

After I get comfortable with someone, I do start to open up. But it can take years for me to be extremely comfortable with someone, there are things I won't say, even if I know the end result will be a good one. (For example, if I know someone knows my sexuality, I may be afraid to talk to them about who I like, or just certain things in general. Even though I know their response would be something positive.) [I still do this in 2019, I got to get a grip on myself and be me]
It took me two years just to open up to two of my friends from college, that I've known for almost four years. I have no problem talking to them (My college friends) about dirty things, but only after I said to myself that these are my friends and they like me no matter what and like me for who I am.
As the days go on, I am getting more comfortable with the people I surround myself. Even newer ones, it just takes some time, so that is a good thing.

There is a difference between face to face and a computer screen, some people such as myself are more comfortable with being behind a computer, rather than right in front of someone.
It's just easier for certain people to express who they are online, than it is IRL (In Real Life).
I am a big one of these, as people tend to be surprised that I am not shy, and quiet online. When on the internet, I'm more outgoing, and I have no problem telling people about certain aspects of myself that I am shy to tell people IRL.
I'm afraid of people and social interaction, and I am not very good at it. I am not sure why I'm so much better online, but I am and most of my friends online and some IRL are the same way too.

It's just how some people are.

I think the reason why I'm better with online conversation, is because I have a chance to sit down, and think about what to see. In the real world, you have to come up with a response right away. My brain just can't always do that, and I tend to say stupid things, or things I don't mean, because of it. 

There are many sides of myself that most people do not see! To many people in person, I might show 10-20% of my personality. To my friends, I show about 95%.

Many people see me as the "innocent one", but I have dirty thoughts just like everyone else! I just usually keep it to myself. But I'll tell you right now, my mind is like a gay porn 24/7.... just imagine it now... A beautiful mountain side with the sun setting, when all of a sudden this incredibly sexy man wearing no clothes and a muscular body just walks on screen with abs that could crack a walnut. Then, comes another man, just as hot as the first... well they start making out and then other things happen that I will refrain from saying because this is a PG blog, not a rated A for adult!  I had a blog like that once and I don't update that one anymore for reasons. (It was controlling my life like a controlling spouse who doesn't let you watch tv after 10 pm!).
Some other things I do involves pairing random guys, or guys I work with, together in my mind and make them make out. Kind of like fandom's shipping concept except with real people. (I'm horrible I know: PS. I rarely ever do this. But I do sometimes ship people together).

An old drawing of the perverted me that was inside my head! I used to imagine myself as different people, with different color schemes, that all represented different personalities.

If I could be the me that is inside of me, the one in my imagination. I would be a total flirt, no doubt about it. There are all of these scenario's I think of, but I can never act upon them because I am way too shy to act on them.
I do sexualized men, look at their butts, muscular bodies and wonder what they look like naked, as well as imagining them making out with me (And possibly others).
I also get angry when I see a cute guy with a woman, I get jealous and say in my head that he needs to lose the zero and get with the hero.

Let me tell you this one time, we had this security guard at my job. Who doesn't work there anymore. I had a crush  on him. One day, he was telling everyone that he had been with his girlfriend for 5 months.  For whatever reason the manager kept telling everyone that it was his anniversary with his girlfriend, so of course she goes to me "Did you know it is his 5 month anniversary with his chick?" I just kind of looked at her with no expression ( At least I don't think I had an expression) But in all honesty, I felt really sad when she said that to me. I just walked away, this manager has no idea that I am gay or that I like him, so I know she didn't say it to upset me or anything. (Eventually she did know, and actually had no idea I liked him. Apparently my flirt game wasn't strong enough, because he would have told her I was flirting with him. lol
I thought of something I could have said when she asked me, which most people who don't know me that well, would be absolutely shocked! But, this thought came to mind that day.

"If you break up with your girlfriend and realize you like boys, give me a call, I don't bite but I do swallow/suck *Wink*".

Of course not all heterosexual men are secretly bi, gay, pan or heteroflexible, it is merely a crazy pick up line that came to mind.

Now if I was open, and much more sociable, I may have said this or something similar. But because I am shy, quiet and reserved IRL I could never say that even if I wanted to. (That quote also kind of sexual harassment soooo I don't think I would say that, as I would like to keep my jerb...)

Ironically enough, later on in the day (Maybe 10-30 minutes later) Me, the Manager and the guy I like were all re-organizing a shelf with jewelry to make room for new watches. I was standing and putting new stuff on the top of the shelf and my crush was next to me kneeling down putting things away on the bottom shelf, and his face was totally penis level. I was like... "Ohh, this is interesting and ironic!" Then it switched and I was putting something on the bottom shelf and he was putting stuff on the top shelf... XD
It was like some kind of homo-erotic subtext in real life, either that or I am just a pervert no matter the circumstances!

But, I have more sides to myself that most people do not see. Everyone sees the shy quiet kid, it's true that I am shy and quiet. But most people don't know that there is so much more to me than beats the eye! It is sometimes frustrating that people stereotype me, or don't really give me a chance to get to know me as a person. I do sometimes feel left out of the persuasion sometimes at work, school or in social gatherings. Mainly because I am shy and or quiet. (Depends on the situation, If I am comfortable with someone, I am not shy with them, just quiet. Unless I am really good friends with them, otherwise I am neither of them.)

For some reason, I cannot usually show my true form (No, I am not a super saiyan.. not what I meant.).
My true form is the form inside of my head, the form in my head is more talkative, goofy, more assertive, flirty, always knows what to say, how to say it and can always shut an ignorant person's mouth and if you watch anime, basically an anime character.
Of course, I am still devastatingly beautiful whether I am shy me or real me, that does not change. :P
I always have a sense of humor to boot too, it doesn't matter shy or not.

But, sometimes I wish I could show my true form to everyone I know.... that is, if they haven't seen it already.. I don't show my truest of true, but it comes pretty close to my closest friends!

These are the types of people that bug me

There are certain kinds of people that I dislike, and or annoy me.

Here is a list of them.

Indecisive - Yes, sometimes making a decision can be difficult, but constantly not knowing what you want is annoying, especially if you ask someone else to make a decision for you. My brother is indecisive, and it's really annoying because he always asks me to choose things for him. I do not want to, just pick something randomly. Whenever he asks me something I just choose something random so he will stop asking me.

As a person who works in retail, I cannot believe how many people are indecisive. Call me ignorant, but I do not understand why anyone would buy any sort of item, just to return it because you didn't like it. Why buy it in the first place?! I have never bought anything that I didn't want, if you aren't sure if you're going to like it, don't buy it in the first place!

Complainers - Yes, I'm complaining about complainers, I see the hypocrisy here....
I can't exactly tell you why I hate complainers, but I just do. My father is a complainer however, and that drives me insane!
Maybe because I have a more carefree attitude on things, that I rarely complain. But complainers just irk me and annoy me. Like no, just stop being annoying for once and deal with it.
Of course there are two types of complaining, negative and positive. Negative is just rude and nasty, while positive is usually used for something that can help and better someone or something else.

Mean - I have never liked mean people, I think it's because I am a "Highly sensitive person"  (Lookitup).
I have a strong dislike for mean, nasty, rude people and negativity in general. It's a type of person I do not like. I cannot deal with these types of people,I'm a nice person, and I always aspire to deal with people who will be nice to me. If someone gets nasty, I don't have a problem telling them that there is no need to be rude, I work better with positivity.

People who open packages at stores - This isn't necessarily a type of person, it's just really annoying when people open boxes at stores. I work in retail, and it is not cool at all. Not only do people break the items sometimes when they open the boxes, but sometimes the boxes are hard to put back in their original form, not to mention that it can be confusing on how to put the item back in the box.
Sometimes people throw items everywhere, and you have to go on a treasure hunt to find all of the pieces. NOT COOL!!


So, what are types of people that bug you? Anything similar to mine? What about that creepy old lady across the street that watches you while you brush your teeth.. or is that just me... 

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