Buying a MacBook Pro. Part two. The last one.
In my previous post, I wrote about my first attempt to buy a laptop on ebay.
Let me remind you that the seller refused to send me the paid goods and made a refund, while I waited for the money to come to the account. Next, I’ll tell you how the story of the refund ended, about repeated attempts to purchase - or rather, even more about the problems that I encountered. Maybe someone will help in the future.
I must say right away that I never bought a laptop in the states, I took it from my hands in Moscow. So this is not a succes story. When buying, I ran into a number of problems that in the end I got tired of fighting with them and preferred to overpay. Let me also remind you that I needed a 17-rack, with a resolution of 1900 to 1200. And preferably a video card with 512 megabytes of memory.
It all started with the following - having received a notification that paypal started the procedure for returning money from the seller’s account, I calmed down and continued to study lots on ebay. Calmed down in vain - after five days a letter came that the seller’s account does not have enough funds and they will try again in 3-5 days. After honestly having waited 5 days and not having received money, I wrote to the paypal support with a question - are they trying to cheat me? What I got advice to still open a claim. Which I did. Just a few hours later I received a response from the seller that it was a paypal error - they didn’t withdraw money from the paypal account but from the card account — where there was no money and that the money will be in the next couple of days. I don’t know if it was true or not, but after a couple of days a notice came from paypal that they received the money and transferred it to my bank for transfer to the card. It was December 28th. At VTB25, I was "pleased" that because of the holidays I would not receive money before January 11, and I calmly conscience celebrated the new year.
The money I received on the account is true January 7th. And then I decided to buy it in the online store.
Normal, comparable to ebay prices were only in PowerMax. For example, here . But they accept from Russia only bank transfer. In general, this suited me, but the problem was again in VBT24. The money was on Visa ec @ ard. You cannot transfer money from it, you can only close the account, wait 45 days (!!!) and receive the money. But the method was found - you need to open an additional Visa Electron card to ec @ ard (i.e., link it to the same account), and then even in Telebank it will be possible already from it (and therefore with ec @ ard since there is only one account ) transfer money to the account. Well, shoot at an ATM.
Having left an application for opening a card (5-7 working days), I began to consider other possibilities. At this time, a refurbrished model for reasonable money appeared in the Apple Store - $ 1999.
At first I had to put up with the fact that upon delivery to California (namely, there lives a person who was supposed to bring me a laptop to Russia), I have to pay a tax of +167 dollars. But I decided to buy it all the same. But not so simple. When registering there, you need to specify a billing adress - and you can not choose a different country except the USA. When they make a request to withdraw funds from a credit card, they also transfer this address, and the bank rejects the transaction. At least VTB24. Dead end.
All this time, I also continued to send requests to sellers of lots on ebay - whether they will be able to send goods to an unconfirmed address. The truth has changed the wording. I asked if they could send the goods to my business address (the address of a well-known company in California), then I specified that it would not be comformed. Somewhere on the 20th attempt, one of the sellers agreed. True, this was his first lot - which was somewhat annoying. Nevertheless, I won this lot and tried to make a payment - but it wasn’t there. It turned out that visa ec @ ard in VTB24 has a limit on the maximum amount of transactions per month (the same on the maximum transaction) - 60 thousand rubles. Let me remind you that the card is tied to a dollar account. If before NG I had enough of this for my eyes, then already in January, due to the growth of the dollar, the limit was not enough. It is impossible to increase the limit. Moreover, this limit was increased only in November last year, and before that it was 500 (!!!) dollars. And in the bank branch they still do not know about it. I explained the situation to the seller - he quickly offered to pay how much is now, and the rest in 7 days when another month comes. In general, I tend to trust people, but in this case I decided to check - and I started correspondence with the paypal support. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. I explained the situation to the seller - he quickly offered to pay how much is now, and the rest in 7 days when another month comes. In general, I tend to trust people, but in this case I decided to check - and I started correspondence with the paypal support. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. I explained the situation to the seller - he quickly offered to pay how much is now, and the rest in 7 days when another month comes. In general, I tend to trust people, but in this case I decided to check - and I started correspondence with the paypal support. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine.
While I corresponded with the support, the seller lost interest in me and put up the lot again.
Well, then in the ru_macsale community , I saw a proposal for a laptop that I needed for 2300, almost new, from Canada - and took it from a person. Finita la comedy.
He did the engraving at the company on the Savelovsky market - 600 rubles, but the truth was messed up - I asked in the lower right corner, made up-right. The backlight through the Russian letters shines through - the truth is a little more dim.
From unpleasant surprises - this is a very small angle of opening the screen. In fact, I can’t work while lying down - I’m used to opening my laptop degrees by 170 and putting it on my stomach resting on my knee. So you can fully print. But this is not for everybody. But the fact that the screen is very light is no longer pleasant. Almost every time you carry a laptop, the cover strives to close.
Of the pleasant laptops, it is narrower than my acer seed, lighter.
Installed Vista. While I’m moving from my desktop slowly. Here is the final month, I’m leaving for free swimming.
I will develop for MacOS shareware, and games for the iPhone. So if you are missing the axis of a small utility under the poppy - wellcome with the idea. I promise 5% of the first year of sales :)
I’m getting used to it on MacOS ... a lot of things are not clear ... But probably this is still a matter of habit.
PS I would be grateful if you give a link to any benevolent community where you could ask simple questions to the switcher? Google search is somehow difficult. I am writing a simple question "How to increase system fonts in mac os", I get a bunch of links to flames where the fonts are better.
Let me remind you that the seller refused to send me the paid goods and made a refund, while I waited for the money to come to the account. Next, I’ll tell you how the story of the refund ended, about repeated attempts to purchase - or rather, even more about the problems that I encountered. Maybe someone will help in the future.
I must say right away that I never bought a laptop in the states, I took it from my hands in Moscow. So this is not a succes story. When buying, I ran into a number of problems that in the end I got tired of fighting with them and preferred to overpay. Let me also remind you that I needed a 17-rack, with a resolution of 1900 to 1200. And preferably a video card with 512 megabytes of memory.
It all started with the following - having received a notification that paypal started the procedure for returning money from the seller’s account, I calmed down and continued to study lots on ebay. Calmed down in vain - after five days a letter came that the seller’s account does not have enough funds and they will try again in 3-5 days. After honestly having waited 5 days and not having received money, I wrote to the paypal support with a question - are they trying to cheat me? What I got advice to still open a claim. Which I did. Just a few hours later I received a response from the seller that it was a paypal error - they didn’t withdraw money from the paypal account but from the card account — where there was no money and that the money will be in the next couple of days. I don’t know if it was true or not, but after a couple of days a notice came from paypal that they received the money and transferred it to my bank for transfer to the card. It was December 28th. At VTB25, I was "pleased" that because of the holidays I would not receive money before January 11, and I calmly conscience celebrated the new year.
The money I received on the account is true January 7th. And then I decided to buy it in the online store.
Normal, comparable to ebay prices were only in PowerMax. For example, here . But they accept from Russia only bank transfer. In general, this suited me, but the problem was again in VBT24. The money was on Visa ec @ ard. You cannot transfer money from it, you can only close the account, wait 45 days (!!!) and receive the money. But the method was found - you need to open an additional Visa Electron card to ec @ ard (i.e., link it to the same account), and then even in Telebank it will be possible already from it (and therefore with ec @ ard since there is only one account ) transfer money to the account. Well, shoot at an ATM.
Having left an application for opening a card (5-7 working days), I began to consider other possibilities. At this time, a refurbrished model for reasonable money appeared in the Apple Store - $ 1999.
At first I had to put up with the fact that upon delivery to California (namely, there lives a person who was supposed to bring me a laptop to Russia), I have to pay a tax of +167 dollars. But I decided to buy it all the same. But not so simple. When registering there, you need to specify a billing adress - and you can not choose a different country except the USA. When they make a request to withdraw funds from a credit card, they also transfer this address, and the bank rejects the transaction. At least VTB24. Dead end.
All this time, I also continued to send requests to sellers of lots on ebay - whether they will be able to send goods to an unconfirmed address. The truth has changed the wording. I asked if they could send the goods to my business address (the address of a well-known company in California), then I specified that it would not be comformed. Somewhere on the 20th attempt, one of the sellers agreed. True, this was his first lot - which was somewhat annoying. Nevertheless, I won this lot and tried to make a payment - but it wasn’t there. It turned out that visa ec @ ard in VTB24 has a limit on the maximum amount of transactions per month (the same on the maximum transaction) - 60 thousand rubles. Let me remind you that the card is tied to a dollar account. If before NG I had enough of this for my eyes, then already in January, due to the growth of the dollar, the limit was not enough. It is impossible to increase the limit. Moreover, this limit was increased only in November last year, and before that it was 500 (!!!) dollars. And in the bank branch they still do not know about it. I explained the situation to the seller - he quickly offered to pay how much is now, and the rest in 7 days when another month comes. In general, I tend to trust people, but in this case I decided to check - and I started correspondence with the paypal support. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. I explained the situation to the seller - he quickly offered to pay how much is now, and the rest in 7 days when another month comes. In general, I tend to trust people, but in this case I decided to check - and I started correspondence with the paypal support. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. I explained the situation to the seller - he quickly offered to pay how much is now, and the rest in 7 days when another month comes. In general, I tend to trust people, but in this case I decided to check - and I started correspondence with the paypal support. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine. The question was - will buyer protection plan work if I make a payment in installments. It should be noted that the support does not respond quickly - from a day to two. And not clearly. I spent five days to get my problems across, but it seems I still did not understand. The meaning of the answers was one - they say pay only through the link "pay" on ebay and everything will be fine.
While I corresponded with the support, the seller lost interest in me and put up the lot again.
Well, then in the ru_macsale community , I saw a proposal for a laptop that I needed for 2300, almost new, from Canada - and took it from a person. Finita la comedy.
He did the engraving at the company on the Savelovsky market - 600 rubles, but the truth was messed up - I asked in the lower right corner, made up-right. The backlight through the Russian letters shines through - the truth is a little more dim.
From unpleasant surprises - this is a very small angle of opening the screen. In fact, I can’t work while lying down - I’m used to opening my laptop degrees by 170 and putting it on my stomach resting on my knee. So you can fully print. But this is not for everybody. But the fact that the screen is very light is no longer pleasant. Almost every time you carry a laptop, the cover strives to close.
Of the pleasant laptops, it is narrower than my acer seed, lighter.
Installed Vista. While I’m moving from my desktop slowly. Here is the final month, I’m leaving for free swimming.
I will develop for MacOS shareware, and games for the iPhone. So if you are missing the axis of a small utility under the poppy - wellcome with the idea. I promise 5% of the first year of sales :)
I’m getting used to it on MacOS ... a lot of things are not clear ... But probably this is still a matter of habit.
PS I would be grateful if you give a link to any benevolent community where you could ask simple questions to the switcher? Google search is somehow difficult. I am writing a simple question "How to increase system fonts in mac os", I get a bunch of links to flames where the fonts are better.