I have been avoiding this thread for a bit now because I'm trying my hardest to not doubt the intentions of some collectors here. But I'm afraid I have to cut my loss and move on, enough time has been given for a reasonable reply/payment and I have received neither of it.
As some of you might have known, I have been helping a few collectors here to order directly from Taobao CM Warehouse (and other taobao shops) and shipped from China since I'm temporarily posted in China. Understand that a lot of you missed out on getting the arms set and I thought I could extend some help given the language advantages I have, all for a bit of coffee/tea money that I could use to get through the day.
Any potential buyer/seller please be aware of @bruin1773 (or Ke***). He has refused to contact or make the remaining shipping payment (including sending Paypal payment request for his easy payment in case he missed the conversation here) despite constant reminders over DMs:
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I have given enough time for a reply and I see that he's active on the forum so I was hoping that he was just busy and had no time to reply, understandable given I had to ditch sending out the parcels for the rest of the buyers that went through me at the very last minute. For bruin case I have also helped him sourced alternative Arm Set A (for AC Cloud headsculpt) because it was out of stock from CM Warehouse at that time and a lot of shops are selling at scalpers pricing which is frankly ridiculous. However once the item was ordered it was dead silence from him until the parcel had reached his side in US.
Now not only do I have no idea whether he received the parcel (or not) even though the parcel is delivered, I also lost my trust in anyone who took a long time to reply to me in DMs asking over the Arm Set. I try my hardest to not doubt anyone's intentions but the moment the DMs took longer than a day or two for any replies is when I start to think whether this person will there to pay me the remaining shipping fee when it comes to it. It's not about the money ($24 is maybe little to some) but the principle behind this. Not to mention now my coffee money isn't even enough to cover for this extra shipping cost that I have sustained.
As such, I have made the decision to not continue ordering for anyone in this forum as I simply couldn't take another risk of such incident happening again. I have considered insisting full payment (including shipping) for future orders but I don't think it's fair for other collectors who may experience currency/postage fluctuations. I'm sorry that it has to turn out this way but I hope you guys can find better alternatives without the seller fleecing you.
That said, I enjoyed my conversations with peeps over this order and other items that you reached out to me seeing if I could help, I hope you guys get what you want eventually.