What to do when they ship 16+ days after you paid? UPDATE

[Sweetness]

Re: What to do when they ship 11-12 days after you paid?

Give 1 star on shipping time. 12 days is ridiculous.

This.
+1

Yup! But give him a neutral!

 

[All The Hype]

Re: What to do when they ship 11-12 days after you paid?

I operate on the whole do unto others as you'd want them to do unto you principle, so I usually give the high rating regardless. It's really not that huge a deal, sometimes people forget. I only ding people if they are being dishonest with me.

I happen to completely agree with this statement. People need to get over themselves. The world does not revolve around any one individual and there are circumstances that can prevent people from being able to ship an item. This is a baseball card - not life and death!

I'm not trying to rip the OP - it's the concept in general. Is it worth getting yourself (meaning any individual, not the OP specifically) worked up over and wondering what you should do? Should you even dedicate that much effort into thinking about it?

I get it - you're eager to get the item you paid for. I totally understand, but maybe there was a reason for the delay and I'd give the seller the benefit of the doubt. I don't need to ruin his reputation over it. If I lapsed on an item or forgot about it once in a blue moon, I'd like like to think the buyer would be understanding. I know I'm understanding when someone buys an item and takes two weeks to pay me for it. I don't write in the feedback took forever to pay. Life goes on and there are bigger issues in life (my life anyway), so I just let it go.


Just my feelings.

Just as you say one item isn't worth getting worked up over, one feedback won't single-handedly ruin the seller's reputation.

EBay is a business and each transaction should be treated professionally. I'm all about giving people the benefit of the doubt, but not when they don't even get an item in the mail over two weeks after I paid. That is unprofessional and should be treated as such when leaving feedback.

Leave a positive feedback for getting the item as described and low shipping time DSRs for failing to ship in a timely manner.

And lastly, if there was a reason for the delay, why not contact the buyer? It takes all of thirty seconds to fire off a quick message saying "Sorry about the delay, I had some personal matters to attend to. Card will ship tomorrow." Why not just do that?

 

[hive17]

Live by the sword, die by the sword. If you want to sell on eBay, do it right. 2 stars on shipping time and they still get a positive. Neutrals and negatives are for massive ****-ups, such as NOT getting the item or taking so long that you almost run out of time to file a claim.

I get the idea that it may not be worth it to fret, but if everyone has that attitude, why even have standards? I know when I sell on eBay, I'm at the buyer's beck and call; if I'm not going to get the itme out in 2 days (minus Sunday), they get a message.

Why should I, as a seller, have to watch my ass for every lunatic idiot buying on eBay that doesn't like the bubble mailer I use, and this guy get to ship **** whenever he feels like it with no repercussions.

Also, the ******** flag was thrown when the OP said "I only ship on Fridays/Saturdays" was NOT stated in the auction listing.

Sorry to go a "George Patton" there for a sec...