Here is my business plan that I TRY to stick to. Auctions always end on
thursday, I work on shipping stuff saturday or sunday, and have a batch
of USPS pickup on Monday, and a fedex pickup on tuesday. If somebody
doesnt pay by then then there item goes out the next week. Sometimes I
get really busy and may miss a week myself, which is why clearly say in
my auctions that if you needed the part yesterday buy new, and allow up
14 business days domestic, 45 for international. I usually only do
international 1 time a month. The rest of the week Im at work and have
to squeeze in rounding up new items to list, getting cars stripped etc
the rest of the time.
Steve MacSween wrote:
This is a good point. People buying on eBay have become increasingly
impatient to have their stuff NOW. It's become markedly worse over the last
year. I have to deal with it more than most of you, as shipping from Canada
takes 2-3x your domestic time.
There is a good reason you will see disclaimers in some listings reading
something like "sellers are not responsible for transit time" (comes up
automatically when you specify your shipping cost, in the listing).
What people fail to grasp is that buying from Kaleb or me on eBay isn't the
same as ordering from Amazon.com or some other mail-order outlet with a
dedicated shipping department that cranks stuff out the next day and
probably gets bulk pickups from USPS. I TRY to ship within 48 hours of
payment, but it often takes five to eight days for me to get the item packed
and to the post office.
I've followed this thread on and off and frankly I'm not devestated by what
happened. The seller tried a cheesy ploy and got nailed. Who knows, this may
be a 17-year-old selling this stuff. On the 1-10 scale of possible eBay
FUBARs, this barely gets beyond 2.
mac
on 7/28/06 12:12 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not talking about luther, but I run across people ALL the time who will
bitch about ANYTHING. They didnt like the box, they didnt like the tape.
They wanted bubble wrap. Was your item damaged? NO? Then why bitch?
OR its not delivered quick enough for them. I put in all my auctions to
allow up to 14 BUSINESS days for delivery, and dont email asking where
your item is before that time. This is in case I get busy and get behind.
Bob DuPuy wrote:
I know I should be taking my own advice and let it go, life is too
short, but.. It is not the ebay seller that is the bad actor here but
the buyer. Kaleb take note. If Luther ever orders a used part from you
even if he you give him a great deal, he'll likely find something to
bitch about. There is a little too much schadenfreude in the reaction
below for my taste.
Oh and by the way mail fraud is not trying to get over on the post
office for a couple bucks, but defruading another individual through
the use of the postal service.
Bob DuPuy
going back to skim and delete mode
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