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Thibaut Cousin
Message #1 Posted by Glenn McEnroe on 13 Mar 2002, 1:00 a.m.

Have any of you purchased items from Thibaut Cousin? I bought an HP41 timer module from him, sent him the money in Belgium. He emailed me that he forgot my shipping address. I sent that to him. He emailed me that he sent it out Feb 19, 2002. I still haven't received it. Sent him an email several days ago, no response. But he has managed to post a new add to HP Museum in classified section with other items he is offering. If you read this Thibaut, please reply to my email.

Thanks, Glenn

      
Re: Thibaut Cousin
Message #2 Posted by Massimo Gnerucci (Italy) on 13 Mar 2002, 1:59 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Glenn McEnroe

Yes, I bought a 71B from him last year. The item was as described and he was a nice and courteous seller. The calc was delivered in a few days and properly packaged. Sometimes I have to wait more than two months for some items... shipping is really slow when your package get overwhelmed in a stack: it's a LIFO world out there.

Stay assured: Thibaut is easily trackable... he works in a well-known watch corporation, posts here regularly, has his own site...

This is just a hobby for him, not his way to make a living.

It just happens to have to wait sometimes.

Massimo

      
Re: Thibaut Cousin
Message #3 Posted by Thibaut.be on 13 Mar 2002, 2:46 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Glenn McEnroe

Hi Glenn,

Don't worry, your item has been shipped by registered mail. I will track this for you.

As you can see, my item list does not include your module.

I received the mail you sent on Monday yesterday.

Please keep me informed, but I'm not sure this forum is the best place.

Thibaut

      
Deliveries from Overseas
Message #4 Posted by Todd Garabedian (CT, USA) on 13 Mar 2002, 10:33 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Glenn McEnroe

Just FYI,

I recently completed a transaction on a 29C with a seller in Germany. The delivery from Germany to Connecticut took over a month. The long shipping time was no fault of the seller... likely it was due to (a) the Christmas rush, (b) slowed mail from overseas (e.g., closer scrutiny by the US Customs Department) due to terrorist attacks here in the US.

I've experienced similar delays with work-related packages coming from Europe by regular mail. Overnight courier seems to be a lot faster (at least for documents).

Todd

            
Re: Deliveries from Overseas
Message #5 Posted by Glenn McEnroe on 13 Mar 2002, 11:58 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Todd Garabedian (CT, USA)

It looks like Thibaut reads this forum and responds to it faster than he does emails :-). Thanks for the reply Thibaut, I will keep you posted when it arrives. I was just a little bit frustrated that I received no reply via email.

Glenn

                  
Re: Deliveries from Overseas
Message #6 Posted by Glenn McEnroe on 13 Mar 2002, 2:10 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by Glenn McEnroe

I tried to send you 2 emails this morning Thibaut. I guess there is a problem with mail deliver. I received this response:

The original message was received at Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:06:35 -0200 (GMT-0200) from localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <Thibaut.Cousin@bel.swatchgroup.com>

----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 <Thibaut.Cousin@bel.swatchgroup.com>... Cannot send 8-bit data to 7-bit destination 501 <Thibaut.Cousin@bel.swatchgroup.com>... Data format error

----- Original message follows -----

Received: by tschaikowsky.eta.ch; (8.8.8/1.3/10May95) id RAA14832; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:06:35 -0200 (GMT-0200) From: <gamcenroe@attbi.com> Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com by tschaikowsky.eta.ch (smtpxd); id XA15902 Received: from rwcrwbc55 ([204.127.198.44]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020313190801.MLGX2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55> for <Thibaut.Cousin@bel.swatchgroup.com>; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:08:01 +0000 Received: from [199.89.163.190] by rwcrwbc55; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:08:00 +0000 To: <Thibaut.Cousin@bel.swatchgroup.com> Subject: RE: Time module Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:08:00 +0000 X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Nov 29 2001) Message-Id: <20020313190801.MLGX2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55>

Thanks for your reply Thibaut. I thought you might see my email if I posted on HP Museum, because you recently placed a classified ad there and I had not receive a reply from you. I will let you know when the timer module arrives and if you get some tracking info that would be good as well.

Glenn

            
Re: Deliveries from Overseas
Message #7 Posted by Andreas Müller (GER) on 13 Mar 2002, 4:44 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by Todd Garabedian (CT, USA)

Hi Todd, you are so right. Exactly the same happened to me exept in the opposite direction; The parcdel from Canada to Germany took over 5 weeks.

Regards, Andreas

            
Re: Deliveries from Overseas
Message #8 Posted by Bill Smith on 13 Mar 2002, 11:13 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by Todd Garabedian (CT, USA)

interesting to hear of shipping problems.

i recently sent small packages of hardware (PCMCIA cards) by 1st class USPS mail to both Canada and the Netherlands. they were received within 5 days. some of my intranational stuff doesn't go that fast.

                  
Re: Deliveries from Overseas
Message #9 Posted by Massimo Gnerucci (Italy) on 14 Mar 2002, 2:02 a.m.,
in response to message #8 by Bill Smith

Yes, I too had a package delivered from Canada in 4 days last month... as I said before: is a LIFO world. Sometimes (very rarely) you're lucky, sometimes you're not.

Greetings,

Massimo

            
Re: Deliveries from Overseas
Message #10 Posted by Matthias Wehrli on 14 Mar 2002, 12:19 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Todd Garabedian (CT, USA)

Hi.. I often buy items in the U.S. I allways takes longer than the USPS says...Airmail take approximatly 10 days, surface mail (for the bigger items you know) takes more than 2 month (instead of 4-6 weeks)!! I stopped getting frightned.. Best think as a seller is to take a picture of the parcel and send this to the buyer.. I'm glad when a seller sends me this..

                  
Re: Deliveries from Overseas
Message #11 Posted by Raymond Hellstern on 14 Mar 2002, 8:56 a.m.,
in response to message #10 by Matthias Wehrli

Hi,

yesterday (Wednesday) I received a parcel from the U.S. which was sent Wednesday or Thursday last week. That was not bad.

Raymond

      
Why are you posting this here?
Message #12 Posted by Mike on 14 Mar 2002, 9:33 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Glenn McEnroe

This is not an eBay customer service.

I have lots of transactions between the U.S. and Europe. I have seen items shipped that take as long as 2 months to show up.

I have seen this kind of post before. My feeling is that people that make these kind of posts are trying to punish someone. There is no need to post this kind of thing here.

There is no answer that you can get here that is going to change anything that will happen, one way or the other.

The only thing you hope to accomplish put pressure on someone. I can see by one of your other posts that you recognize that he is here and you hope to get a response from him.

It seems that you are worrying about nothing. What happens, happens!

I think this kind of post is uncalled for.

            
Re: Why are you posting this here?
Message #13 Posted by Glenn McEnroe on 17 Mar 2002, 6:48 p.m.,
in response to message #12 by Mike

First of all you obviously didnt read the original post clearly. This was not an ebay purchase so has no business on an ebay message board. The purchase originated from advertisement which appeared here. Given that, I wanted to explore what other buyers experience with overseas shipment was and from this seller. I see nothing wrong with that. You obviously have taken this to an extreme not intended by my original post.

Glenn


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