I feel a little ripped off...

[Mr. Pockets]

Okay, so I bought this SVX parts list thingy on eBay. It was my first eBay purchase ever, and I even set up accounts with eBay and PayPal just for it. Today, two weeks later, I finally received it. I would have had it last week but there was a misunderstanding concerning the address and the seller had to send it twice.

The description of the item called it a 'folder,' so I was expecting a bonafide, heavy-stock Subaru document. What I have here in my hands is a photocopy of the SVX pages from the big Subaru parts book.

I can see in the supplied photo on the auction page what it is, now. But from the description, the separate pages in the photo still fit into my head.

Hey, it's only $15, but if the guy had said 'I photocopied this out of a Subaru manual,' I wouldn't have hit 'buy now' right away. I would have spent five minutes at Ann Arbor Subaru trying to convince the parts guy there to do the same thing, but not for $15.

But if I had not been convinced (deceived, I think), then the seller would not have gotten his money.

Yeah, his sale was fair. But it was cheap in a sucker-punch sort of way. To his credit, the guy did put the pages in a nice 15-cent Kinko's page protector.

End result? Don't bother bidding on this guy's 'parts lists' any more. I'll scan every page of this 'folder' so everyone here can use it.