ratwell Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) I went to eBay today to complete a checkout with B&C and all the items in their eBay store are now gone: https://www.ebay.com/usr/myatari https://www.ebay.com/str/Atari-Sales-and-Service/Atari-8-Bit-800-400-XL-XE-/_i.html?_storecat=5 Does anyone know the status of the business? Edited March 15, 2021 by ratwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 I managed to recover an old link from my browser bookmarks and saw this: "The seller is away until Mar 18, 2021." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 I haven't talked to Bruce in quite a while but I did buy an XL keyboard from him just last month via eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuf Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Complaining about eBay fees is like yelling at clouds. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbaeza Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Hi I bought an Atari Paint disk from their eBay store on march 5. Kind regards, Luis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo7 Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 showing no listings hmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) Everything is fine, I communicated with Bruce... it's vacation time is all. Time for family. It's all good! Thank you for editing the first post, as it really was alarming as written. We haven't lost another friend, no tragedies or anything. Still in business. It's a good thing this time, it's family time. Edited March 16, 2021 by _The Doctor__ 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Memory Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 I bought a keyboard from them on the 7th of this month (9 days ago now). Meaning, ordered and paid for a keyboard. No movement showed on ebay until yesterday, when it finally got a tracking number. Same day they showed up as being out until the 18th. I sent a note asking about this, and got a terse reply with nothing but the tracking number. Grrrr. If I knew it was going to take this long, I would have done something different, and may yet. At this point they are incommunicado and my keyboard is still not in the mail - tracking shows "pre-shipment information has been received". I assume they did this to make it harder to cancel? I've bought things from them in the past and had ok experiences but this is not a happy one. If I'm paying $56 for a keyboard in mediocre condition I at least expect communication, if not the actual item! I bought a computer from a seller in Egypt a day later, and despite customs and COVID and weather issues and whatever else is going on, I received it yesterday. It works great! So this isn't an ebay issue nor a mail issue - both are working, in general. In fact, I live in the same state as B&C, so buying from them ought to be quite fast, one would think. Obviously something bad going on over there in B&C-land. Hope they're ok. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Memory Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: Everything is fine, I communicated with Bruce... it's vacation time is all. Time for family. It's all good! Yes well they flaked out well before their vacation. Maybe they just misplaced my order for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 I received an email reply from Bruce and he says "we are closed this week. EBay will be back up Friday." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Strange that they didn't just put their store into vacation mode. This will display a message that the seller is away on vacation until the date you specify, and you can also customize the message that is displayed. Then you don't have to end all your auctions and restart them once you are back. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 Exactly. I only got that kind of message when I opened up a link to an older auction that had already completed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, ratwell said: Exactly. I only got that kind of message when I opened up a link to an older auction that had already completed. Strange that they put their store in vacation mode but ended all the auctions. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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