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He sent those messages more than 5 months after I paid for the item, and only after I kicked up a fuss here. Hardly communicative, even if the last few messages did legitimately go missing.

Okay, since the issue is that I screenshotted off a desktop instead of a phone, here are mobile screenshots, taken about 5 minutes ago:

Yes, because as I said, I did this to try and get some of the cash back that I lost. In order to recoup the cost of the DMG, and the cost of the pins, I have to make at least £290. In any event, it might be less than 10% going to charity, but how much of the Game Boy sale went to charity? About 0% - so not sure criticising in that area makes much sense.

It's not that funny. The reason the email is the same is because it is me. I haven't tried to hide that at all. I've actively promoted it under my name all over the place, so it's hardly a revelation. When I realised that I wasn't going to get my cash back from Josh, I decided to release a pin to try and recoup my losses, and to raise a bit of money for an LGBTQ charity at the same time. Josh doesn't sell pins, nor does he own the rights to the rainbow flag or the Game Boy design, so not sure what you think you have discovered here.

As for the actual DMG, I received a customs notice today to pay import tax for the item, which I've done. We'll see what sort of condition it appears in when it arrives on Monday. If it appears fine, then I'll gladly post pictures here and update.

The fact that other people have treated you shittilly in the past doesn't justify other shitty behaviour. That's a bizarre argument.

Err, okay. Your post above contains some glaring omissions and inaccuracies, so let's try and make what actually happened clear:

1. Payment: It was you that said I couldn't use Facebook payments, not me, so it's bizarre that you are claiming otherwise - especially since you sent me a screenshot showing that. In any event, you received the money - through a direct bank transfer. TransferWise acts as a middle man to avoid exorbitant international fees. I did everything I could to try and get the cash to you since you wouldn't take PayPal. Bank transfers are only an issue for the buyer - not the seller. Precisely because of this issue that we are now having. I have zero recourse except to try and get you to stick to your word.

p.s. I'm not sure who in the UK you managed to send cash to using the Facebook payment service before me since it clearly wasn't available here before December: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/sci … -uk-launch

2. E-mail address: You already have my e-mail address - from the bank transfer that I sent you.

3. Messages: I posted publicly only after you failed to respond to me for weeks, and followed up as the episode dragged on for months because you hadn't bothered to reply to me via any of the mediums. I posted here, in the ChipTunes = Win Facebook group, on your wall... and Brandon H messaged you directly. I still didn't get a reply, or an e-mail on the address that you had for me.

4. From your screenshots, you claim to have sent me tracking information for a package after May the 1st (you can see the dates on my screenshots below, which make the timeline clearer). The tracking info you provided says the package was posted out yesterday - so what's the deal with that? It still took you another month to actually send it out after I asked for an update.

Here are my Facebook messages, since we are apparently posting them:

Isn't it interesting that there was no issue with your messages sending until there was a problem? It's also strange that you managed to reply fine to Brandon apparently, but your messages to me somehow got lost.

In any event, even if your messages weren't getting through, this has been going on for months. You knew it hadn't arrived, and you didn't make any effort to try and resolve the situation. You could have sent a refund or posted out a new DMG weeks ago and it would have arrived by now. Or e-mailed me... or replied to any of the forum or Facebook posts when you figured out there was an issue.

I have (finally) received the tracking info now via DM here, which shows that you posted the item out yesterday - only after I posted here, again - not back at the beginning of May as your weird screenshots above claim. Why didn't you post it out weeks or months ago? How could you have given me a tracking number before yesterday if you didn't post it out before then Even if you did have the tracking number for weeks, why didn't you post it out until yesterday when you said you already had? This whole thing stinks, and I don't trust you at all. At best it doesn't seem like you care, even if the messages weren't coming through.

FWIW, I have been extremely patient and convivial throughout this whole sordid episode, and given you the benefit of the doubt every step of the way until now. I am (rightfully) pissed off at this point. It should not have been this much of an issue to get you to do something, or for you to make some sort of effort to contact me properly and find a resolution. I posted on the Chiptunes = Win thread weeks ago and you never bothered to reply then, when you clearly saw it - long before the comments were closed.

You shouldn't be taking people's money if you aren't going to care about dealing with them properly. This should have been sorted out months ago, when your Facebook messages hadn't started to experience their mysterious disappearing act. As far as I'm concerned, now that you've finally given a response and provided a tracking number, there's nothing else to be said so long as it turns up in an acceptable condition. It really shouldn't have been this hard.

Aye. Given how long it's been, sadly I can only conclude that I've been scammed. Should have known when he said he couldn't use PayPal. Dodgy as fuck.

Had an awesome time at this!

I put together a wee 'tour diary' esque video with clips of some of the artists:

Been listening through this morning. Nice work! I really like:

https://aanaaanaaanadaily.bandcamp.com/ … g-it-alone

It's different from the usual chip/electronic stuff, which is nice to hear.

Yeah. For me, I like to try and support independent artists' music, but paying £5-10 for a digital only release isn't as rewarding as actually having something physical - even if I don't end up even listening to the cassettes that often. I think of it more as a solid piece of artwork than the musical delivery mechanism, if that makes sense. I think a lot of people are probably the same. It's why I prefer to do the releases in small batches, and spend time hand painting them all etc, as it makes them more unique than just whacking on a printed label.

Pretty good. I've sold a bunch of tapes, and gotten to work with some really cool artists. Like I said, it's really awesome to get orders in from Japan and Australia and all over the world - something that wasn't really as visible when it was download only releases in the past. My one problem is that each release takes up quite a bit of time to put together, so I can't really do as much as I would like to.