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I used to be somewhat crazy about NIN. I will now occasionally listen to one of their records, broken if I want something angry, or downward spiral if I want to drive my car faster. I have some NIN bootlegs which I never listen to anymore, so I decided to post them on eBay (try here, or here if interested). One asshole bid with multiple accounts, one of which had negative (-1) and another with zero feedback. He may have actually been legit, but I tend to doubt it, so I canceled his bids. At this point I was thinking NIN fans are a bunch of roguish, poorly bred, hoodlums.

Then today, I'm getting home and I get a message from somebody in Canada wanting to buy the CD. I don't ship to Canada, because the one time I did, the guy was a real asshole, and it was a hassle filling out the extra paperwork. This is what the guy had to say:

hello, i'm very interested in bidding for this item in particular the purest feeling, and i was curious if you would be willing to ship to canada, my girlfriend is a huge fan of nin, and she's been looking for a copy of the purest feeling for some time, and i would like to get her a copy, but you are the only one selling the album, and unfortunately it says for the united states only, if you could possibly see to mailing to canada i would gladly bid on it and pay for any extra charges in shipping it, as you can see i have a 100 ositive feedback and i pay for my auctions promptly, thank you for your time.

My usual response is "I'm sorry I don't ship to Canada." However, I was touched by the personal touch in this request, so I told him I would ship to Canada for him if he won the auction. I mean, if my girlfriend wanted a CD and the only way to get it were to purchase it from someone in Canada, I would hope that our neighbors to the north would oblige. The point is moot, since I am decidedly single, but the thought follows anyway.

After responding to this guys e-mail, I decided that I shouldn't be so hard on NIN fans, because this guy had been much more of a gentleman than the other buyers I had dealt with in the NIN CDs I was selling (as compared with my other sales). Then it occurred to me that he wasn't a good reason to change my mind after all, because he isn't a NIN fan; his girlfriend is.

Still, I'll give his girlfriend the benefit of the doubt and we will just say she's all right too.