It's bad enough when you don't get the item you paid for, but it's even worse when the deadbeat seller is your own sorority sister.

It happened to me about 5 or 6 years ago. I had paid $30 or so for an Alpha Gam Gift Pack (misc stuff that she'd collected as a member over the years), and didn't get the item after quite some time.

I contacted her through email, and she said that she was in the process of moving...blah blah blah so she was very busy, and that she would send it to me ASAP -- she knew I was a sister so she even made it clear that she would "never screw over a sister like that".

Then the emails stopped, luckily I had saved all correspondence and eBay messages. Unfortunately this was before the advent of PayPal, so I had sent a cashiers check -- saved the receipt of that too. eBay had done an investigation, but unfortunately I got the same message you did, roqueemae.

So...I contacted my IHQ and told them about my situation. She was from Western Michigan, a chapter which had just recently closed at that time-- and she was considered one of our "lost sisters" because they didn't have up to date info for her. She wasn't even in good standing with the Fraternity.

After a while, I realized there was nothing I could do -- I had to just suck up my loss of $30, I guess.

So imagine my surprise when I get a Priority Mail box filled with this Gift Pack 6 MONTHS AGO. Mind you this was 5 or 6 years ago.

I guess she finally got settled down.