{"id":136,"date":"2008-05-23T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T01:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-09-23T19:41:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:41:04","slug":"results-of-a-cursory-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Results of a Cursory Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around, I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180241443520\">GeekAvailable ordered the replacement part for my computer on eBay<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/offer.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=180241443520\">The part was ordered on 17 May at 13:26:22 <abbr title=\"Pacific Daylight-Savings Time\">PDT<\/abbr><\/a>, about 3 minutes before the call from Rod in which he told me that he'd ordered it on Thursday or on Friday but couldn't find a tracking number for it in his e.mail.<\/p> <p>And he ordered it from <a href=\"http:\/\/feedback.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=originalpartsglobal&&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller&sspagename=VIP:feedback:2:us&iid=180241443520\">originalpartsglobal<\/a>.  Now, if Rod had used <a href=\"http:\/\/toolhaus.org\/\">ToolHaus.org<\/a>, then he might have learned that, while <a href=\"http:\/\/feedback.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=originalpartsglobal&&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller&sspagename=VIP:feedback:2:us&iid=180241443520\">originalpartsglobal<\/a> listed the unit location as <em>Albuquerque<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/toolhaus.org\/cgi-bin\/negs?User=originalpartsglobal&Dirn=Received+by&ref=home\">his merchandise <em>actually ships from China<\/em><\/a>.  Not much chance of it having got to San Diego in 72 hours.  Really, even without <a href=\"http:\/\/toolhaus.org\/\">ToolHaus.org<\/a>, Rod should know better than to rely upon a seller with 63 negatives and 107 neutrals out of 7926 feedback entries in the last year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poking around, I see that GeekAvailable ordered the replacement part for my computer on eBay. The part was ordered on 17 May at 13:26:22 PDT, about 3 minutes before the call from Rod in which he told me that he'd ordered it on Thursday or on Friday but couldn't find a tracking number for it [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,4],"tags":[68,268,214,217,215],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-personal","category-public","tag-computers","tag-geek-available","tag-geekavailable","tag-laptop-repair-san-diego","tag-rodrigo-pereira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}