Rant on shipping
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Big Barn
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Which reminds me. I mailed a Skip the Dishes certificate for that lunch I supposedly owe you
Here is the tracking number. wa8t4evr-skr
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I've found in the past year or so USPS tracking is a novelty. It gets dropped off half way across the US and the next update maybe a week later is "out for delivery"
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I had a $300 "k" size oxygen cylinder on order from UPS, an order from Ebay, it disappeared from the box it was in!. the seller made good on it though, and it finally arrived, but it still bugs me how it disappeared from it's cardboard box!. I ordered zener diodes from Ebay, they were from China, over 3 months later, they still haven't arrived, and the seller keeps on trying to make me wait longer!!.. I kept on telling him I want a refund!!..
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If you have already communicated with the vendor you can now open a dispute with eBay. I can almost guarantee you will have it resolved in a few days.
Diggin It
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When companies started using computerized shipping and order fulfillment systems. Your item may not even be at their facility at all. It may be in another warehouse somewhere else in the country. When you get good tracking, check the origination city to see if it's where the company is or not.
The AMZ free ship thing was once explained to me this way:
Empty truck trailer is parked at the dock Monday (for example). There may be several based on destination regions. Packages are loaded as orders come in and the truck(s) sit until filled. When fully loaded, the truck moves out. If you place your order that same Monday (for example), but there aren't enough orders going to your region to fill the truck until Friday (for example), your order sits on that truck all week. It has technically been 'shipped', but hasn't started moving. If you place your order Friday and it happens to be one of the last that goes on the truck before the doors close, it could ship and travel the same day.
I once had an order arrive within 36 hours of placing it.
A lot of companies are now using third party fulfillment services that use similar systems.
What has gotten me rethinking mail orders is that they will offer free shipping if you spend "X" dollars, but then you receive several packages over the course of several days. I won't ask UPS to come down my road in winter so have them sent to a local drop-off point. Yet I then need to travel to get there, and every package costs me $2.00 to pick up. There goes my free shipping...
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I buy a lot of stuff off eBay. Lately I have been getting sellers claim the order was shipped then come back days later saying it was out of stock. They charge my Paypal as soon as I place the order. Some of them have the nerve to claim I canceled the order. During the whole process they will have my money for 8 to 10 days and I won't have what I ordered. Then I have to start shopping for the item again.
Diggin It
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^^ The seller never had it at all. They 'dropship'. They list an item they don't have. You buy it. They then place the order with another site, probably AMZ. That order gets cancelled for some reason and you're out in the cold.
