B&S Advice!

[GoldenTribe]

Maybe this is a silly question but you sent it AIR rather than SURFACE, right? Surface (intercontinental) means "boat" which takes months to get anywhere. I'm still waiting for a sweater which I won on eBay on October 4 from a seller in MS (is that Missouri? I get the non-obvious state abbreviations mixed up a lot) and I'm not even on a different continent, so customs & driving speed are the only concerns. I'm confident it will get here and if it doesn't I will wait until close to the last possible day before filing a paypal claim since there's no tracking # and customs is such a slow pain ***********.

That said, I would never ship anything worth more than $100 without tracking, even if it was somebody I had dealt with before. (When I buy anything I care about even on SF I always remind the seller to ship with tracking "for your own protection" because if I pay for something and I don't get it I'm sure as hell filing a claim.)

Lastly, if this buyer filed a paypal claim against you even though you had assured him of shipment, I would consider carefully how generous I was going to be if I decided to refund him anything. Sounds like he didn't give a **** if you were out $600, so if you really did mail it maybe you should take a corresponding approach in return.

 

[NewYorkIslander]

Originally Posted by chestercopperpot

If I knew this was going to happen I just never would've sold it abroad. Has this kind of crap happened to anyone else?

Happened to me with a jacket I sent out from NY to Philly. Luckily I know the buyer pretty well through the sites, so I trust that someone else swiped his package. I sent him a similar replacement jacket from my wardrobe...Was the least i could do.

I do make sure all of my sold items are tracked with delivery confirmation. Most guys here are trustworthy, you'll find the occasional d-bag though, lucky I'be not yet found mine.

 

[SpooPoker]

Rob, I havent bought anything from you?

 

[cioni2k]

Had a pair of sunglasses shipped to me from Turkey from a user on the forums sit in customs for a little under a month. These things can take time

 

[talkhot]

Always when I order something overseas I just forget about it, so when it arrives it feels like I'm getting a present.

 

[SpooPoker]

^ Please check my sales threads then!

 

[chestercopperpot]

Wow...what a day. Thanks for the overwhelming responses. We exchanged emails most of the day as paypal sided with me. I was freaking out as honestly, I just don't wanna be "that guy" y'know. He sent me a rather nasty email later and I had to have my fiancÃ

edit the one in return. Bless her heart she made it sound so nice while I was losing my mind on the other side of the table. Few hours later I get this email. Guess what was delivered this morning?????????????? You guessed it! Wow, I’m embarrassed! Can’t tell you how sorry I am for doubting you. It’s just the whole $600 thing and a month in the mail had me trembling. FINALLY! It hadn't even been a month! If he reads this I hope he knows I got nothing against him, but at least in the future he should trust me. I don't think I'm ever mailing a package to Australia ever again...haha

 

[SpooPoker]

Besides the fact that you had a happy ending here, the best part about this thread is the fact you put it in MC not B&S.