Here is why I hate the guy who I bought my ps3 from story.
Cliffs: Bought ps3 off ebay from some guy in the same town so i could pick it up and avoid shipping. He wanted me to pay with paypal and was a huge pussy and total fag about waiting for the payment to clear even though I showed I'm I had the funds in all my accounts, he ended up making some lame deal that was the same as jsut paying with paypal
I saw an auction ending for a 20gb that was jsut on the other side of town (small Iowa town, ten mins away). The price was still pretty low and I bid on it. So I shot the guy an email saying that 'Hey I am in town and can i puick it up tonight?" I wanted to pay with a check out of my brokerage account, but he was being a fag and was afraid it would bounce, blah blah blah understandable. He then suggested that I just paypal and meet him at the mall and he can give it to me. I was half way there and he calls me back saying that the transfer would take a couple days to clear and he wanted to wait for that, he said he would cancel the transfer if I could get the cash. Luckily the atm let me take several hundred dollars out at once so I had the cash. When he got to the mall he said he can't cancel the transfer, but I could since I was the sender. The dork brought a laptop and suggested that we drive around and find an unsecured network and i could cancell the transfer in some parking lot. When I finally had a chance to log onto my paypal account I see that there is no way to cancel a payment if it is done by instant bank transfer. At this point he jsut wanted to wait three or four days until it cleared. I was getting pretty pissed at this point. I convince him that I was legit by showing hima bank statement that I had in my car that I had the money in my checking account. Then he wanted all this info on me. I took my DL number, my student id#, my adress, my parens adress, my lisence plate #, and phone number. He wanted my bank account number and soc number, but I wouldn;t go for that. Now the deal was he has all my info, he give me the ps3 and the games that were part of the deal. We let the paypal go through and when it clears he will send me a receipt for the ps3. I still want to know what that reciept is going to do for me, I already got my system.
So in the end we ended up doing what I originally wanted to do to pay for it, and it only took about 2 1/2 hours. I fucking hate that guy. I was thinking of taking money out of the account and calling paypal to say it was bogus or something, but I am not that bad of a person.