So I've been buying some games for Mark off of Ebay, older games, like SimCity 2000 and Sim Tower, etc. I purchased a copy of SimCity 2000 that came with a copy of the manual.
They arrived in the mail today, and when I opened the package, I literally GAGGED. The envelope was like a ticking cigerette smell time bomb. I'm not useually sensitive to the smell of cigerettes but this was so powerful that I'm going to leave the games in the sack until I can take it to my mothers house and let it air out in her garage for a few days. I probably wouldn't have bought the items if I knew they were from a smoke home, but I didn't want to come off harsh in my letter..
Anyway. I wrote a letter to the ebayer I bought it from, do you guys think this was out of line?
"Hey -----!
This really has nothing todo with the item, so I didn't want to put it in the feedback, but when I opened the package with our game it in, the smell was overwelming. It was sort of unplesant.
I thought maybe letting you know would be a good idea, so that you could put that your items are from a smoking home in your auctions. It wouldn't have prevented me from buying, but the products do smell heavily, the book in particular.
Sorry if this comes off harsh, I don't mean it that way, I just wanted to let you know :) Thank you, we do love the game!"
Was I harsh? I just think it would have been nice if they had warned us ahead of time that the items came from a smoking home. Especially since this person seems to smoke so heavily that I'm actually thinking about throwing the manual away because the smell is so bad.