You know what I frigging hate? Asshole ebay sellers who enjoy the courtesy I offer them of an instantaneous online payment (via PayPal), and then take their sweet time getting around to shipping whatever it was I paid them for. Witness this auction…
As I've said I'm working on two new caches which I was hoping to hide this weekend if not sooner. The only thing I actually need now is the ammo boxes. No problem right? The auction ended on May 21. It includes no shipping price, so I had to e-mail the guy at end-of-auction and request a total.
On May 22 I heard back from him, and I paid him the total amount ($43) via PayPal, an instantaneous service which allows people to exchange money for goods online. I figured I'd have the item in about 5 days or so.
But by 3:30 PM on May 31 (nine days later) I was tired of drumming my fingers and waiting, so I fired off a quick e-mail.
Hi. You received a paypal payment from me on May-22 for 5 of these ammo boxes. It is now May-31 and I have neither received this item or any confirmation that it has shipped. In my experience, first class mail from Texas to Massachusetts should take about 5 days. When was this item shipped?
A couple of hours later (5:42 PM) I got the following message back:
I will email you a tracking number this afternoon. I am at work right now and the tracking number is at home.
I figured, sweet! Since he already had a tracking number I probably would be getting my package any day now. I didn't hear back from him until the next morning:
The ammo cans were shipped fed ex ground. The tracking number is [omitted].
So I promptly checked the FedEx website:
Tracking number [omitted] Ship date May 31, 2005 Estimated delivery Jun 6, 2005
Thanks a lot, dickweed.
Wow, that's annoying. I only had one really badly delayed auction and that turned out to be because of a funeral. The seller notified me of the reason and I got the item a week or so later.
Why lie? He had to know you were going to see the ship date?
BTW – you have a copy/paste error in the post. It looks like the section from “You know what I hate” to “Fed Ex website:” is in there back-to-back.
That happen to me too Bri but when I refreshed it went away.
Lady Lav
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
C*******A!
Well, you can leave him neutral or negative feedback. What was his feedback rating? I know my SIL ebays more than I do and she won't do business with anybody whose feedback is less than 99.8%. (I don't know if she looks at the amount of feedback, too.) I've used that guideline of hers and I haven't had any disappointments yet, but I don't ebay that much.
Yeah, he had good feedback: