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Originally Posted by Maena
I have a good friend who was extremely frustrated by the 6 month that she had to wait for the set of Habibi magazine that she paid Rania to pick up and deliver to her, despite her own consistent attempts at communication about the issue.
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Sorry, one more time... now that this is mentioned public... I feel I need to make an public explanation.
I had my Point of Contact (friend in Portland) pick up 32 sets of Habibi mags for 32 different people that really wanted a set. I told everyone from the start... that those magazines would not mail until I got payment from EVERYONE as I could not ask him to go to the post office every time I got a $30 payment from each person. That was too much to ask. Sooooo... how was I to know that 10 people from those 32 never responded again after begging for their money??? I already fronted $320 ahead of time before receiving any payment from anyone for my friend's $10 fee per set to pick up and stuff and mail (not mentioning storage space he had to use to hold all those mags). It took some people 6 months to send in their $30. $30 seemed like an insignificant amount for some people I realized, but all together, that's $960 that I WAS responsible for. So after 6 months guess what... yes, it was taking forever, I just fronted the rest of the money for all the people who forgot they asked me to get them a set. I EXPLAINED THIS TO EVERYONE IN EMAIL???? I should've never volunteered to do so. In the end, I lost over $300. Some people were so happy to get them in the end, and some people could just complain. Lesson learned by me.