My purchase from Zenloc arrived in the time frame he said as described... the problem being that we forgot to mention one thing: power supplies for Europe sometimes don't work so well in USA... oh well... Still was great to do business with, and if my power company provided me with just one plug that did what I need, I'm rather sure it would have been well worth the cost. :/ Would do business again.
My transaction with Toastbucket was a lengthy and convoluted one. I'll start this by saying that I would do business with him again... now for the story...
Back in November Toast put a RROD Halo 3 xbox 360 up for sale... I expressed an interest and we eventually agreed upon a price.
I paid said price in full, however Toast had some delays shipping and I soon needed money again, so we agreed for him to send back 2/3 of the price, leaving 1/3 as a deposit, and agreeing that I would send $5 extra when I could pay as a fee for holding it.
This was in December.
Jump to February.
I now had the agreed upon funds, so I sent him a PM and threw them his way in late February. At the same time, I sent money to Zenloc for a Power Supply.
Zenloc is in Amsterdam. His product arrived first, in the meantime, I continue to check the post office every day for the little yellow slip saying I got a package.
I PM Toast a couple of times asking him about it, he says he hasn't had a chance to ship and offers to return some of the money. I don't respond to the offer, declining it because Toast is a bro.
I wait a bit and PM him again, by this time it's been almost a month since I paid him. I'm kinda annoyed, and it kinda shows... I try to not be too much of an ass.
He eventually tells me he shipped it out, and included a few goodies to make up for the wait. I wait 3 days and check the post office again... I do this several days. 5 days have passed now, and I'm starting to get a bit suspicious, seeing as shipping from post office to post office is usually pretty Dang fast.
I don't say anything.
A week after the day he says he sent it I get a little yellow slip in my PO Box and get super excited...
Go to the service desk...
Get a box that looks like it's been beat to Heck and back, the lady at the desk says "Yeah, if that's an xbox, I doubt it works anymore..."
I say it's ok, I'll make it work.
It turns out the delay is because he sent it to an old address and the Post Office had to forward it. Yay moving twice since December.
I take it home, and open the package. Inside, Toastbucket had included almost as much in awesome goodies as I paid to him.
The xbox was in the described RROD condition, and surprisingly no cosmetic damage had been done. Everything was packed decently, but it really could have used a bigger box.
I immediately kick my girlfriend out and get the screwdrivers out. 3 hours and a trip to ACE to get some goo gone later, I had a working Halo 3 Edition Xbox 360 and a ton of goodies.
Long story short: I'm slow to pay sometimes, and Toast is slow to ship sometimes, but Toast is significantly more awesome than me about it.
I would definitely deal with Toast again. He's awesome.