Why Is It So Hard... (Rant)

Yeah it's amazing that people will make every excuse in the book for taking so long to package something up and get it mailed. I probably ship 80-90% of my ebay items within 1 business day, and the other 10-20% no later than 2 business days (usually it only falls back to the 2nd day if I realize I am out of the correct shipping materials). Now if you have something crazy happen like a death in a family, that's one thing, but some sellers just take a laid back approach to shipping items. But like many others here, I have a full time job, I have other real life responsibilities, I go to the gym 4-5 days a week so yeah I am busy. But I don't let that hold me back from providing good service.

I had a buddy who was selling on ebay as well, and was taking 2-4 weeks to ship items. He had worked hard to build up his seller reputation and then suddenly got lazy and made excuse after excuse. I tried telling him that buyers dont really care what's going on in your personal life and that there was no reason he couldn't take 15-20 minutes out of his life to package and mail the items. Needless to say, his ebay account is garbage now and he seems to have given up entirely.

It's strange, but every time I contact a seller about a late delivery, the excuse is always that they were in the hospital. What's up with that?

For whatever reason the PO website and ebay dont always interact well. I've seen packages where if you click the ebay link you get nothing, but if you check on the USPS site it shows. I've also seen ones where it wont show up for a day or two then all of a sudden the tracking will show and its almost to me.

Really not sure whose fault it is the USPS site or ebay, but if its ebay you think theyd be working on it

I've had this happen to me more often than not with the tracking link through ebay. It will show the package was accepted and went to the sorting hub and then 3 or 4 days later with no updates it will be out for delivery and show a couple of stops in sorting facilities the previous day. Sometimes it will be four, five even six scans that all pop up the day it's out for delivery. I guess the bottom line is I get the packages.

I'm not sure it would work but why can't sellers simply say this order will take from 2 to 3 weeks due to a massive amount of recent orders. A few do that and then there is no problems. I recently joined the GM club for road sice assistance. I called and requested additional cards so I could put a card in each car. The lady that answered simple said no problem but expect several weeks for this. And yes it did take two weeks. But it didn't bother me since that is what was stated. Why don't more companies do that? Simply say it will take xxx amount of time. Then no reason to get mad.