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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I recently bought a cheap $10 coin via ebay. Seller quickly issued a tracking number, but apparently the package never made it into the system. No further information, and I messaged the seller twice with no response. It's past the estimated receive date. Am in no hurry, and will wait a while before opening a case. I'm watching the sellers feedback to see if he shipped the other coins he sold at that time. The 'no communication' part is the odd thing. Either something happened to the seller, or he didn't appreciate me sniping it at the last second.  I feel it's a $25 coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've had Sellers post tracking numbers and leave feedback and not actually drop off the package at the post office for 3 or 4 days. It is annoying when that happens and the Seller is only fooling himself. ebay catches on pretty quick as to what is going on when they see huge differences between when the tracking number is posted and when the package actually shows up at the post office. |
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Forum Dad
 United States
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There are also instances where it's picked up and just not scanned. A lot of non-postal employee contract carriers don't have scanners at all.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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After I purchase postage and print the packing slip, I could click 'add tracking number' without even packing the coin up. I don't add the tracking number until it's been actually posted, though.
Edited by ArrowsAndRays
09/23/2015 8:16 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've dealt with great sellers and some bums. The ones that immediately post a tracking number but don't drop it off at the post office for several days are just unprofessional. I've got one now that posted one three days ago but I haven't seen a message from the USPS yet.
Hopefully your seller is just delaying sending you your item and is not planning on keeping it and reposting it after you get your $10 back.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Yeah, it's been 8 days. Transaction was on the 16th. Like I said, it's not communicating after I sent them 2 messages, that's thebummer. All they had to say was they were delayed in getting to the post office. Oh well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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ebay won't consider it as received until the status shows delivered. I have seen cases where a package shows no status until it's delivered, but that's not common.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Seller is a dud. No item, no communication, no nuthin', so I started the process through ebay to communicate with seller and get the item. Seller has 4 days to respond. If they don't respond, I'll just take a refund, and move on. Seller is gbok65 Edited by edweather
09/25/2015 01:16 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Does not look like the seller has had shipping problems in the past, but all it takes is a simple call on his part to fix the situation.
Sometimes you can shake a package loose by going to the USPS tracking site and requesting a text or email update on that tracking number. I was told here by a Local USPS delivery supervisor that when you do that it shows up on a list that has to be reviewed each morning.
I don't know the exact process, but I have tried it more than a few times and it seems to shake the package loose.
It could be the seller entered the tracking number manually, then let it sit around a few days before mailing, but 8 days seems odd for no update.
Hopefully you get the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I signed up for email updates on the USPS site, and have had packages go off radar before, but they all had an initial scan into the system. All this package shows is 'shipping label created.' I'm going slow as possible in resolving this hoping something good will happen. A very small deal in the overall scheme of things, but something to talk about anyway   Maybe I'll try sending an email to the seller's paypal email. edit: Things seem to be back on track. So seller finally responded to my email and said he was bedridden since last week, and will get to the PO tomorrow. I responded no problem, get well soon. .....we shall see Edited by edweather
09/25/2015 4:08 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So I opened a case, and ebay refunded my money. Apparently the seller never shipped the coin I won and now has the same coin listed again. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1835-Large-...em419d8d7a0aIt's a small item, and maybe I should just let it go, but I'm tempted to call ebay, especially after the seller gave me a sob story 2 weeks ago on how they were bed ridden and would be shipping the coin any day now. |
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I would ding him with negative rep. Looks like he has 1 already, so add another.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That does call for a negative particularly when the item is re-listed quickly with a $29.00 price tag on the flip.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks, I called ebay and they were happy I reported the suspicious behavior of the seller. The ebay rep suggested that I leave feedback, but oddly the item wasn't on my purchase history anymore probably because of the case being closed, but the ebay rep showed me how to find the item so I could leave feedback. They also suggested I block the seller. I hate leaving negative feedback and have only done it once before, but this seller really asked for it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd leave negative feedback. In this case it won't count against the seller but will serve as a warning to other buyers. Sellers can only get 1 defect per transaction & they got their's in the case process.
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