You may have noticed my lack of communication lately due to my school studies. Some of you where aware of this, but still expected me to be checking my emails daily and hoped for timely responses. Last week was my last official week in school until this fall, but still don't expect me to be able to respond to emails frequently because I plan on being in the library reading up and studying over the summer for my fall classes. I'm sorry if this has caused some of you an inconvenience, but I have to prioritize things, and study time is the most important thing on my list at the moment..or for the next year and a half anyway.

I've had a couple people recently win my auctions simply just to get in touch with me, or to get my attention. Please don't do this. It's costing me time and money, and obviously, if I had both of those to give, I wouldn't be so busy with school would I? If you don't hear from me in a timely manner, it's not because you are being ignored. Just respect what I'm going through, and understand how time consuming this can be (which I assume the majority of you are already aware). Thanks for understanding and shoot me an email in the next day or two if you have any questions.

Well, I'll just respond here then.

First of all let me say that you have pulled off something I thought was not possible: make me angry through the internet.

I was aware of your busy school schedule, hey but what do you think I'm doing here, counting peanuts? Everybody has his or her goals in life, but so does everybody have responsibilities. Your goal and priority is studying, mine is too at the moment. That's a thing you have to do for yourself. But there's also a huge thing called social responsibility, you can't just drop that. You do not have the right to ask me to respect your schedule when you are treating me like dirt (yes, I don't have a better word for it). It's your duty to contact me, not the other way around.

This 'thing' has been going on for about 5 months. Last time I made a new post here just to grab your attention, since you don't respond to my emails. Now I've mailed you 4 times since that post and again no response whatsoever...until now. I'll be very honest, I can't understand your 'busy with school' issue and how it restrains you from such a simple thing as replying to an email.

The way you are treating me (and perhaps others) bothers me way more than the transaction. You have let your busy schedule become a hindrance to another. I would never ever knowingly do such a thing to anyone. I hope you are aware of how others are experiencing this. I'll be awaiting your response (either here or through email).

Seriously. It would take less than a minute to acknowledge an e-mail with a response. Even if it's several days later, or if it's just a brief hello-information-goodbye note. Despite classes, work and various shades of family and social lives, it is possible to show a little respect and at least let the person know you received their e-mail.

Well. Isn't this interesting.

You say you don't have time to e-mail people back - and going by Yuv's post it looks like we're talking several months worth of backlog - but if someone wins one of your overpriced auctions you'll give them the time of day; perhaps with a smile? That's just bullshit, plain and simple. This proves that you're just an ignorant "seller" that only gives a damn about the cashmoney.

Mr. S., I suppose you are doing your auctions to help pay your way through school.  That is admirable.  However, because you are running those auctions, you still have business responsiblities to maintain.  You can blow off people you have no business with, but if what Yuvrai is true, you're also blowing off customers that have transactions with you.   It doesn't matter if the transaction is small or large, you have to complete it in a reasonable amount of time.

It sounds like you need to find a better balance of your work-school ratio.

Sorry Yuvraj. Maybe you never should have selected either of those out of print cds as your free gift. I should have just sent you something that I already had and you would have had it eons ago. Just like the guy that was supposed to get me something. I made no special request, and still didn't receive anything, but I didn't place bids on his auctions or brand him publicly. I let it go because I realize he must have something going on in his life keeping him from completing this arrangement, so I have no hard feelings towards him.

I think people here are getting a little misled by your post. I don't feel like explaining it. I know my personal situation, and just felt the need to apologize for being behind on my email responses. BTW, just sent you an email.

You really don't understand my point do you?

First of all, you were the one going public with this announcement of yours and specifically this statement:

This did it for me and moved me to replying here in the open. I mean daily? Monthly. And now again I have to reply here for my defence because:

How is my post misleading? It's exactly what happened and I also expressed my own feelings about it. You are blaming my wantlist for you not emailing me back. I gave you my list of vgm albums I was (still) interested in, 3 oop, 2 inprint. I also specifically said that I really hoped I was not being impolite for putting oop albums on the list and any album would make me very happy. Lateron, I also mentioned very cleary that I didnt want this gift thing to be too much trouble for you.

But like I said it was not about me getting the gift a little late, heck I dont like asking for gifts. You know very well the reason I mailed you on the status of the gift exchange. It was a simple thing, I just wanted to know eventually what you were getting me, since I couldn't order or hunt for anything myself due to a possibility of ending up with a duplicate...but you 'couldnt' reply. That was the ONLY thing that pissed me off.

The STC gift exchange should be about sharing. I made efforts to give my person a nice gift (hope you are happy). Giving is the best part, fortunately I 'got' that.

Last 2 points:
1. I did not bid on your auctions. That's not my style.
2. Please leave this gift exchange for what it is now. Don't send me anything anymore.

Your point is easy..you wanted more contact and I MADE IT CLEAR why there was a delay. This was my first near full time session back to school, and I spent close to 70 hours weekly on study alone, not to mention any other daily resposibilites I had to take care of. As for not responding to your emails, I have 7 messages in my sent items that were sent to you. You knew I was waiting on word from my contact in Japan on what the status was on your cd, along with me being tied up in school, and you still flooded me with emails. How many emails are you going to send asking the same question before you realize your just badgering me?? If you send 300 emails asking the same question, am I to reply to 295 of them stating the same thing?

I tried to get you an oop cd because it would have made it more special. Obviously you were more interested in something oop because your want list consisted of mostly oop titles. 

Everyone started assuming I was taking people's money and not following through in 5-6 months which simply was not the case. This was simply a case of trying to get you an oop gift, but unfortunately it happened at a very bad time.

I established how many times I emailed you back. It seems this whole mess stemmed from more than one issue.

I told you what I had ordered for you. 30 emails asking the same question wasn't going to change that. So you should have went and bought everything else on your list that I didn't say I was getting for you.

Obviously I agree with this because it's something I've been a part of the last 3-4 years and was the one setting it up. Maybe in the future, some of us shouldn't be picky about what we receive and simply give a list of what we have as opposed to what we want. I told the one in charge of getting me something to send whatever. Could be a door knob for all I care. Nothing arrived. I emailed him twice and refrained from further emails.

No it was the other Yuvraj 30 mintues down the road from your mailing address, but then again, I never specifically said it was you that placed a bid on my auction, but the fact that you responded comforts my thoughts on the issue.

The double standards here are amusing, I'll say.

It's pretty funny how Mr.S has had no time for anything with his zillion hours of studying a week, but all of a sudden he's posting in the forums numerous times. I've known Yuvraj for a while now, and it's hard to believe that he has done the things you're implying. Maybe I've been talking with that Yuvraj down the road instead.

Haha, brilliant. I'm going to devastate those statements of yours now:

7 mails sent to me eeh? Well, let me correct this illusionary picture: After I gave you my address to send the cd to on the 10th of december last year, you have sent me exactly 3 emails up till yesterday (not including that 4-word STC message)

The first was a response to my mail inquiring about whether you had sent out the cd already (februari), you stated you'd get back asap. You didn't.
The second mail came 3 weeks later, after I resorted to a STC message 'Mr.S, where are you!?'. Because before that I mailed you twice, one for inquiry, and a second for doublechecking if you had really gotten that first one. No repsonse in 3 weeks that was. So you responded you'd get me this particular cd but needed to check up on the status. On that second mail I responded 'no problem for the late thing, but it's just that I want to know now what you are getting me.
The third came 2 weeks later and only after I mailed you. I still hadn't heard a confirmation from you, so I asked again what you were going to get. You replied (on the third and last mail) that the cd wasn't sure due to the cost, so I responded on 8 march that If that cd was too costly, please dont do it, but just order something off the list and drop me a mail what you got. You'd mail me back within 10 days. You didn't, I tried to contact you 4 times after that. After that I just gave up. Then a few days back I see you posting here! 'What the f*!' *becomes furious*

Don't go saying I mailed you 30 times asking the same thing, even though I knew it. Because I clearly didn't. And you promised you'd respond better after your second mail. Communication on your end was just plain horrible.

Please read properly before posting. I never said you said I placed a bid. I responed to your inquiry. Because you definitely thought it was me. Check your second post up. Oh and you asked me personally through email yesterday. Anyway, about that auction, please do give the link. My eBayname is yvk2001. There is also no person living in the Netherlands that has an eBayname 'Yuvraj', and the name doesnt appear when someone wins an auction right?...this is going to be interesting. Yeah Zane, let's see whether you have been talking to a phoney Yuvraj.

It's amazing how much time I'm putting into something like this. But that should show how pissed off I can become of unhelpfullness and bad communication.