The Dye-Sub Cub Scout guide to "always be prepared"

[chongsta]

So......all is well and im loving my "new" Epson B1100. The Uber-Mod Paul sorted me out a profile for it about 7 months ago and again...im loving my prints. My mugs are happy, my phone cases are happy and my Dye-Sub life in general is making money and...im happy.

and then one day my prints came out all weird colours!....banding, streaks, lack of everything. hmmmmmmm

So i do a nozzle check and im missing a few hits here and there, nothing to get worried about so i do a clean and all is well...im happy again. yay!

an hour or 2 later and then the same happens again..."hmmmm" im thinking....another clean does the trick...and then...."oh dear, this aint right". I remove the CISS and do a forced clean with actual solvents to really push the badness out...it worked... yay...for 20 mins!...

Im in trouble!

Quick...eBay! get another printer. Its the middle of november and hell season is looming fast. So i quickly find another B1100 but alas the seller is saying that its "local pick up only"...i say 'bah' to that and contact said seller and ask him to end the auction quickly and i will pay £100 English pounds for his printer if he ends it now. The seller agrees to this offer and we talk nicely over the length of 4 emails ranging from..."end it now"...to...."I will arrange pick up from my private courier firm called Parcels2Go", he agrees and all is well. In the meantime the season of hell decides that it wants to come a few weeks earlier than normal and that weekend i get approx 200 orders....with no printer!

I arrange the pick up from said seller, but i check the tracking and it appears that it hasnt been picked up. I message him and no reply, i arrange another pick up and again....no pick up. i now have around 400 orders and a dead B1100 with very nasty flashing lights that tell me its...dead! (btw i googled the hell out of the flashing lights and all i got was..."its dead mate")

im now more than worried, so i look for another B1100 quickly and i find one...yay!...again local pick up...'bah'. I message the seller and repeat the mantra "end it now and i will pay top dollar for it now!", he agrees on £100 + postage. So now i have two B1100's on the way, lucky me yeh?....nope!

I speak with the second seller on the phone and explain the problem i have ("problem" is a mild word here), he sympathizes with me and assures me that if i arrange pick up he will "sort it". And thus i call him to arrange an address and then he tells me that "oh its a bit difficult mate, ya see someone else just offered me £250 for both the printer and the heat press i have"...where the heat press came from is a mystery so i brazenly say "ok...i'll give you £120 for the printer....you know thats well over the price for what it is but i just NEED IT NOW....YESTERDAY"....he agrees and accepts my over the top offer. Phew...coooool....i got my a printer at last. I call him later coz he's in work and i respect that he cant talk because...'he's in work'. After 5;30 i call him, no answer, i leave THE most polite message that im "in the shit" and i REALLY need to sort this out because i now have approx 2billion orders to fulfill. He sends me a text at 9am the NEXT day to say that his girlfriend is now sorting it out!..."ok" i think...so 4;30pm he finally texts me and says " oh mate, me and the missus are going away for the weekend, can we sort this out on monday?"

At that point i did not answer! I was about to become the UK's next most wanted notorious serial killer for anyone with an Epson B1100!!!!!!!! I shit you not!!!!

I now have no hair left, or patience, or anything resembling decency! BUT....i do have around 600 orders with the usual eBayers calling me the Son of Satan, scurge of the earth, the worst seller in history, "im reporting you to ebay because i can" etc etc etc etc. I also have about 15 Disputes open because eBay has now decided that "we" will take care of your problems for you dear customer!....crapola!

Then a light from above shone on me and reminded me that i have not one...but two Brother DCP195 printers that i always kept for back up. So i plug them in...press print....and total crap comes out. Why? because im now using totally different bloody inks than before! My screams cannot be heard past cardiff! (spits)

The Brothers were rubbish the first time around, so why would they work now? Im desperado city big time. I put the call out to my online rivals/competition who we've both helped eachother out in times of need. He helps me with my now 2.4 billion orders, only problem is that i have to prepare my work onto a USB stick and travel a 10 mile round trip for every print run. At last im clearing the backlog of orders. The two gimps from eBay have rightly had escalated disputes raised against them and for once i CANNOT wait to leave negative feedbacks.

I bought a new Epson 1500W from PC World, then downloaded the official profiles and guess what...they're crap! Once again the úber-mod paul comes to my rescue and gives me a proper profile!

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and so.....the moral of this story is... (and its multi-threaded)

1. Make sure you have a PROPER back up plan when you're printer goes tits-up!
2. Make sure you know when Christmas is so that when the crap hits the fan - you have a back up plan and refer back to number 1
3. Don't buy from sellers who say "local pick only" and also check that they are real human beings!.
4. Don't rely on another seller of the same printer to do you any favours even though you're paying over the odds for a printer worth £80
5. Refer to point 1 again always - its a winner
6. Don't believe eBay customers when they say your are 'scum', you are merely 'scum' without a printer! There's a difference!
7. Can't be arsed....when im on my death bed and someone says "that printer episode in your life...was it worth it?"....just say "hell no!"


and here endeth my last 2 months of hell.

Au revoirs
Dave

[chongsta]

....its laughable is what it is!

[chongsta]

just got this from ebay....

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Good news. We issued you with a full refund of £90.00 on 07 Dec, 2013. The refund includes the purchase price plus original P&P and has been credited to your PayPal account. Please log in to PayPal and view the history page if you don't see it in your PayPal balance.

Decision:
This case has been decided in your favour.

Comments:
We apologise for the inconvenience caused and have issued you a refund for this case.


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yay....negative incoming


Peace!