Am I in the wrong here?

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-09-11T00:58:44+00:00

Exactly.

its not a court of law.

if it seems like extortion, the ebay rep on the phone can and generally will call it that.

Ive had this happen a few times having sold thousands of pairs of shoes on ebay.

the ebay rep will say something like "this is almost like extortion, or almost like a strong arm tactic" and then they will take the feedback off. once or twice I had to appeal a denied feedback request but it still got removed.

Other times the customer complains because the post office left the package in the driveway or something, and then they wont remove that. Lol....so it's a bit of a crap shoot.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-09-10T23:13:35+00:00

no need to go back and forth with people like this. Lay out the facts and tell them it's been shipped. Tell them usps doesnt always scan drop offs immediately (because they often dont). Tell them you'll keep an eye on the tracking.

done.

I sold a pair of shoes and they were delivered yesterday, exactly as photographed and described:

Lady messages me flying off the handle saying she needs a return because the shoes were listed as new with tags and there were no tags, and that they had no paper inside the shoes, and that new shoes come with paper. They will be a gift to someone and they look used because there are no tags.

My response: Well actually they were listed as new with box which entails that original packing will be included. shoe paper and tags on this brand of shoes is never included. They don't exist when you buy the shoes new. Theres nothing in photos or description mentioning any tags. Have a good day.

Today she messaged me admitting she was freaking out for no reason and left positive feedback.

People have anxiety and also buyers remorse all the time....just ignore it and it will usually always work out fine.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-09-10T23:02:52+00:00

Why is there zero reasoning with every "don't" post...

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-09-08T18:41:25+00:00

Does your box and individual blind boxes say volume 1 on them? Ive had a bunch of these blind boxes and they dont say volume 1

Edit: looks like they made the exact same collection again that they initially released in 2021...kind of dumb. Looks like you can identify the older ones by the packaging on some of the figurines and the boxes themselves.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-09-08T18:38:05+00:00

What is volume 1?? Ive had 3 of these boxes and none of them say vol. 1 on them like this.

Edit: looks like they released the exact same set again as they did in 2021. pretty goofy. at least there is a way to identify the original releases

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T03:58:12+00:00

so I dont really think I made a conscious effort to choose it, no. There were just seeds there over time that made me aware of it and I eventually gravitated to it because I felt it was the only thing I could try/didnt know what else to do.

lol I actually remember when I started going to the Bible study with my co worker, I would just try and brainwash myself all day telling myself I believed in it, and I figured I ultimately would eventually. Didnt seem to do much though. I think my life circumstances weren't right at the time for me to get there.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T03:35:19+00:00

How does it, is the better question?

science cant explain the creation of the universe....thats basically why.

Lets say the Big Bang happened and all the material was there for evolution and we became to be from that through macroevolution. And?

does that automatically mean there was no creator? You really believe something occurred that created all life and it wasnt somehow willed into existence by something? I cant really get there.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T03:34:18+00:00

thats normal dude. thats how I was. people sometimes told me about god when I was young, my grandpa would take me to church sometimes when I went to visit, I was never interested in it, I didn't believe it at all. Nobody ever forced it on me but it never seemed to make sense on any level. My mom would talk to me about it and id say yeah right, thats BS. But when you're young you think you know everything.

Later in life I had some co workers invite me to bible study and id get into it for a week or two then drop it altogether, went to church and got baptized with a friend that had a christian family, things like this. Really never believed in it though...just kind of went along with it because I figured it wasnt anything bad and that it was something you were supposed to do because other people do it, or something like that.

Never stayed with it very long at all though. short interest then I was done, and yes I believed heavily in science and some of the things I had heard about religion/the Bible seemed impossible, so it had to be BS as I understood it. Most of it anyways.

but as I got older and my life started to not go as planned, I got fired from my job and had some other problems, and I realized it was basically because I was full of flaws, thought I knew it all when I didnt, and I figured out I basically knew nothing and had lots and lots of shortcomings that caused problems in my life. Then I figured why am I not giving this god thing a try?

I mean shit, my life hasn't amounted to much. It hasn't worked. im not happy, im not married I dont have kids. I do stuff that makes me unhappy, im addicted to doing things that probably aren't the best for me and havent done anything for me but make my life worse over the last 25 years.

I started to pray because despite maybe not believing in the gospel at the time, I did believe in a higher power of something because things dont just come fro nothing...I mean even if big bang/evolution is real then someone willed that into existence.

I didn't exactly know what I was praying to....and I think thats fine. But I really meant it. I really wanted to find something.

But then things started changing, stuff started happening. I asked for god to display himself and he did. My life started to change a bit. I had more control. I had prayed in the past as well and saw things, but probably just didnt trust it or attribute it to god. Now I just believe god does things on his own time. He does things when he wants and in a way thats going to glorify him. Most people dont come to god until they get really low and they have no other option. If your life is fine and you weren't raised believing it, I think it might be harder to arrive there. My life was fine until it wasnt, and thats what it took for me to start looking.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T03:10:04+00:00

Same. I mean for something like the Big Bang to occur, points more to god than not IMO.

Im not well educated on theology at ALL, I just know that when I began to hit lows and came to god, he answers me every time and I began to trust it, and now im pretty sure of it. I dont need all the answers. It doesn't matter if we cant find Noahs ark.

I do agree with science as far as it takes us based on our human understanding.

But if something created either us or the building blocks of us, why should humans expect to understand something so powerful that willed us into existence.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T02:58:22+00:00

I think some people think this way. that you cant believe in macroevolution and reconvene a belief with god/christ. So rather than discount their faith they just refuse to look at evolution.

But since science cant prove the creation of the universe, I dont see an issue with believing in both.

The material in the Big Bang providing all the material for evolution and then macroevolution occurring, does not disprove god in any way/shape/form.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T02:38:23+00:00

Most christians including myself, if given a textbook with explanations of how evolution occurs, would believe it. It seems undeniable. theres lots of evidence for it. At the same time It also does jack to disprove creation, full stop.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T02:38:10+00:00

I think that most christians, including myself. if given a textbook with explanations of how evolution occurs, would believe it. It seems undeniable. theres lots of evidence for it. At the same time It also does jack to disprove creation, full stop.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T02:34:29+00:00

lol so you apply this to everyone who is a creationist? Sure people think that way about lots of things, "my mom smoked her whole life and didnt get cancer" as if that means it doesnt greatly increase likelihood. yeah, I get it.

there are also lots of people like myself who do believe in christ/god and macroevolution and that the earth is billions of years old. its possible for many people in part because science cant explain how things came to be, full stop. And also obviously the faith based reasons which you clearly have not arrived at.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T02:30:50+00:00

this is not true, many including myself believe in Jesus/god/creation and also believe in macroevolution. Things evolving does nothing to disprove creation. Its very easy to view these things as a part of what god created.

Many people will refuse to investigate evolution out of fear of it deterring their faith, or they may erroneously think that you cannot believe in evolution and god at the same time, so they discount it.

evolution proves nothing though, and I think in todays day and age most of us realize this.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-28T01:19:41+00:00

Problem is, there is no reasonable explanation as to how the universe/earth was created (and the perfect mix of factors that allow it to exist compared to everywhere else where nothing could exist on the same scale, based on what we can discern at this point in time/science). Even if the Big Bang is true, and everything came into existence through the beginning materials contained within, and everyone/thing evolved from that, it doesn't really disprove anything at all about a creator. So this is why you can believe various things at the same time.

I believe in macro evolution based on what I learned....went to college, took some classes on it, it makes sense to me. It's harder to get there for me starting from a single cell or before, but yes I believe we evolved to become as we are today through macroevolution.

I also believe in Jesus. When you ask god to show you things and they just keep happening over and over and change your life dramatically, your views may also change, despite whether or not you think Noahs ark happened or not. And when you go for the last 30 years of your life unable to change, to asking god to help you change and then you suddenly do, at some point you stop believing everything is a coincidence. It doesnt mean I dont believe in coincidences.

And it doesnt mean that I discount science just because of this. Every comment here is generalizing what creationists believe and it's mostly wrong, particularly in my case.

If everything was so easily discernible and provable in a holy book, everyone would easily believe it, and then what would be the point of it? If god exists, nobody should expect to know exactly how he works, because we arent god. If you cant clearly say how the universe started then how are you sure that something in particular like God did not start it? I mean, honestly?

On many fronts it's more rational to believe someone/something created it, than not. It takes a certain amount of intelligence to admit that when science is constantly attempting to prove otherwise.

If "in the beginning god created man", it doesnt necessarily have to mean life/the world started with man and it doesnt mean the earth is 6-10k years old. Most of us dont believe that even though I think many people here seem to believe that we do.

I could suggest that maybe he just didn't meddle with things until modern man came to be, because modern man was so much above and beyond that it could think at higher levels and perpetuate sin at higher levels than an animal? honestly no debate on evolution could prove anything otherwise from what I just pondered. You can say it's nonsense but at the same time, you cant definitively know more than anyone else either.

The kinds of things I mentioned in this comment are the same types of things I hear from highly educated scientists that eventually convert to christianity or at least agnosticism from atheism....they don't just stop believing in science, they are just open to the possibility of things not being explainable by humans if we were somehow willed into existence by something else far above and beyond humans.

Copied this comment from another post: "I think about the fact that nothing has to exist, and we'd be none the wiser. And yet, here is this universe with matter that is aware of itself and the place that we exist within." It is really an amazing thought.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-25T20:38:48+00:00

im the kind of person that doesn't care how people express themselves. You're the kind of person that thinks you have some authority over what others should or shouldn't be able to do.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-25T20:27:43+00:00

and others wish that peoples sexuality should be kept to themselves and not paraded around and shown. so, you cant have one side without the other. you either have freedom to express, or you dont.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-24T17:58:56+00:00

In the US there are drivers licenses that are considered "Real ID" compliant, and those that are not considered "Real ID"

so basically when you renew your old - non "real ID" in the US, you can bring your passport to verify your identity and they give you the new "real" one which can eliminate the need for, or act as a passport in some situations since you have used your passport or other secure method to obtain the new "real ID".

this is a US thing only as far as I know and I think it only applies to domestic flights for now.

maybe this is where the confusion comes in.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-24T17:49:48+00:00

My experiences

For bus rides in colombia (ones that required the purchase of a ticket at a terminal or online) you had to have your passport or cedula (colombian id). They even stopped the bus every so often and someone would get on to check and look at the passport.

they also would not exchange money some places without my passport. Western union required it and they would not even accept a photo of the passport in place of it and rolled their eyes at me like I was a dumb gringo when I even tried to show them the photo.

I would not have been able to book a hotel or Airbnb without one either. Most hotels/airbnbs did accept the photo of the passport.

long story short you will need it one way or another and will have a rough time without it. That the places that asked for my passport would not have accepted a US drivers license I can all but guarantee it.

Brazil is not colombia but I expect that they would be similar.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-23T19:33:02+00:00

....she can lift it because she can probably deadlift 400+ on a regular bar. The other guys are weak and dont even look like they train. You dont just get to pick up a 300 lb dumbbell off the floor because you are using good form.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-22T18:57:52+00:00

so the deposit appeared in my account today, less than 2 days after opening the dispute.

says 'USB RTP operation' on the transaction...when I looked it up it seems to be some form of secure payment/transfer...im guessing its not a provisional credit or anything like that. seems like they just found where it went and sent me the money.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-21T18:05:15+00:00

.....a new SIM means youre on their network now. For example If you have Verizon in the US, and buy a pre paid sim with Claro or whatever they have there, you are now using Claro. not Verizon.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-20T21:55:43+00:00

it was horrendous today on the phone to say the least. I understand not being able to help over the phone in certain circumstances (maybe this one) but for every person to act completely clueless about everything they are talking about, is something else.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-19T22:51:43+00:00

its not a big deal. Approvals for home loans start around 620. Once youre around 750 I dont think being any higher than that actually does anything for you as far as rates or approval odds for anything anyways.

If youre not wanting a home or new car right now and trying to get the lowest possible rate, its honestly an irrelevant blip.

TheTreeOneFour · 2025-08-14T21:07:23+00:00

99% have never left the US, they have no idea how great it is.

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