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Dear Fashion Truth,

I've been meaning to write about this for a long time, but never got around to it.
It was a month ago (I think), when I saw this top in Lush Serendipity that I was interested in.
I e-mailed LS, and we managed to set the time and place for COD.
Then, I decided to change the COD location, and she said okay, her partner will meet me instead.

Unfortunately, on that day, my class ended late, but even so, I rushed to the COD location, which is about 50 minutes away from my college.
I managed to reach about 5 minutes before our agreed COD time, just to have her partner call me and say he's not coming, because "he does not want to be stuck in a jam". He KNEW there would be a jam at that area in th evening. If I could make it from so far away, why couldn't he? Or at least, why didn't he call earlier to let me know?
I was quite unhappy about it, but there was nothing I could do, so I agreed to meet him at a later time.
He promised to be there at 9pm, whereas my class finishes shortly after 9.
Again, I rushed out as soon as my class ended, to find that he was not waiting where he promised.
I gave him about 10 minutes, then I msged him, asking where he was. No reply.
I waited another 10 minutes, then I called him. Couldn't get through. So I msged him again, and AGAIN no reply.
By 9.40, I was the only one standing in near darkness, in our agreed location, waiting for him.
By 9.50,I was damn pissed and fed up so I left. I messaged LS, and all she said was "omg sorry, want to set up another meeting time?" or something close to that.
As I was still pretty pissed off, I did not reply.

The next day, I received a call from her partner in the evening, and without a single word of explanation or apology, he just said 'Hi,when do you want to meet up again?'.
Are you kidding?!? Did he really think I was still interested in doing business with him? No, is the right answer.
I told him I wasn't free and he said okay, let me know when you're free, then he hung up.

After that, I didn't hear a single word from either one of them.
Needless to say, I never got that top. Nor did I ever visit their site again.

What I'm trying to say is, as a buyer, I have done COD's with Ancient Orchids, Clothesbucket, etc and I never let the sellers wait for me. I was always the one to be there earlier, and I would expect them to be on time. Even if they're late, they would call or message to let me know. At least then I wouldn't be waiting in vain for nobody.


-Anonymous-


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from Lush Serendipity

I would like to apologize for all inconvenience caused.technical hiccup with my partner.And sorry for the misunderstanding caused.