glassgrl
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posted on July 13, 2005 10:16:31 AM new
i'm not sure how to respond. bid on something - won. paid - ok, not too swiftly I admit but paid within the timeframe. no repsonse to payment etc. finally emailed the seller asked if it had been shipped and did she have a tracking number and her response?
"Hi. The auction ended June 25th. You paid on the evening of July 4th. We took an extended 4th of July weekend. Your package will be shipped within the next day or two. Purchases that had been paid within the week had been shipped. Laura"
I feel like she thinks she is punishing me or something. I wanted to reply but then I thought - wait it STILL hasn't been shipped. How do I know she won't pee on it or something? A 4th of July weekend is just that - a weekend. Not a week later!
aggghhhhh. just wanted to get it off my chest before I replied to her email. and I guess I won't reply. what a privledged person she must think she is. oh how humble I feel. "within the next day or two..." (meaning IF I feel like it)
Remind me not to get an attitude towards my buyers.....
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on July 13, 2005 10:53:20 AM new
Of course she has lost her seller's protection if you paid with paypal - like that matters.
I would just email a thank you back and wait!!
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ewora
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posted on July 13, 2005 11:30:52 AM new
I don't think it's unreasonable on her part as most people do pay within a few days of winning an item.
However, she should have communicated with you beforehand about her intended extended vacation.
Whenever I am planning a week or more away from home I let my buyers know that if I receive their payment after such and such date their item will not be mailed until my return on such and such date. It's only common courtesy.
[ edited by ewora on Jul 13, 2005 11:31 AM ]
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LtRay
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posted on July 13, 2005 09:49:21 PM new
Did I read that right???
You took 10 days to pay and are now complaining because she is taking 10 days to ship?
If it had been one of your buyers waiting that long to pay, you would have been having fitts about it.
Maybe she just assumed that since you took so long to pay that you did not care how long it took to get the item?
And she did say "extended 4th of July weekend", could mean she took the week off.
Not to mention (but I will[grin]), that if I saw a buyer was about to get a major hurricane coming their way, I would have asked them if they wanted me to wait until the storm was over before I shipped.
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parklane64
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posted on July 13, 2005 09:56:23 PM new
This is what FB is for. A back-handed compliment like, "I finally got it! slow, but sure."
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sparkz
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posted on July 13, 2005 10:21:01 PM new
I agree with Amy. If she were planning to take a week off, she should have put that notice in auctions that were likely to be affected, and definitely in her EOA notices. It's totally unprofessional to keep a customer in the dark in a situation like this.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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mcjane
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posted on July 13, 2005 11:50:02 PM new
If she doesn't want to be bothered responding to payment received that's OK as long as she mails within the next two days.
She didn't & couldn't, she was away & should have made that known beforehand.
I'm with Amy & sparkz.
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glassgrl
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posted on July 14, 2005 02:36:44 AM new
F*ck off ltray.
(you want to know WHY I can say this? Because I finally figured it out that day that you told me to LEAVE YOU ALONE - that if you were my boyfriend instead of my girlfriend that I would have kicked you to the curb a long time ago instead of making excuses for you all these years. And you would of told me the same thing if it were a boyfriend treating me that way. Think about it. A bf that called me and said we'll do so and so only to back out at the last minute. A bf that said LEAVE ME ALONE when you tried to do something nice for him. A bf that you only got to see once or twice a year. NOW do you get it? So I'm just setting both of us free from the heartache. That's what I meant when I said I'm so over it. And I feel better being free than to try hanging onto something that is obiviously not working for me.)
[ edited by glassgrl on Jul 14, 2005 05:06 AM ]
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glassgrl
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posted on July 14, 2005 05:35:19 AM new
{Now that I've gotten THAT off my chest.....}
Here is the ask seller question I sent them:
"I have NOT received this. I included insurance in my payment. Can you tell me when/if this has been shipped and do you have a tracking number?
Laura Beth"
And that was all I asked and Laura's reply is up there ^ and I vented over here. I didn't reply. BUT I woke up to a new email in my inbox this morning! From the husband I guess. Was I part of a discussion you think?
"Dear Ms. Lancaster,
You won the item on June 25th. You paid for the item on July 3rd and inquired about it some three days later. I wrote to you then that we were on vacation and if your payment was made after June 29th, the item would be shipped upon our return. We have not returned and your item went out on Tuesday. I don't recall emailing you in the eight days it took to receive the payment, and, it is custom in many families to vacation around the fourth of July, that is exactly why I ended the auctions on the 25th of June and didn't list anything until we came back. Thank You for your time and understanding, Brian"
I NEVER emailed them three days later asking where it was. He/they NEVER emailed me that they were on vacation.
However all the other items I paid for that same day I've had for a week. I kept thinking every day that this item would come and that if it didn't, I'd email but then would just forget about it for another day.
I finally went back in and looked at the auction yesterday to make sure I didn't see a "we only ship on Saturdays" or something before I emailed. All I saw was "Expedited shipping service". I guess now I know what expedited means. 
Kind of makes me mad that they would lie about me emailing them though! I did send several emails after the auction but they never responded - which is one reason I took so long to pay. I asked them if they had anything else in that size in Black - and if they did, I thought it'd be easier to have 2 shipped at one time. I started thinking maybe their account was hijacked or something when they didn't reply. The "she" finally replied that their server had been down - never answered my question, so I just went ahead and paid and bought the black somewhere else. That was the last communication I'd had from them until yesterday.
sheesh.
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LtRay
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posted on July 14, 2005 01:07:41 PM new
GG, your comments about how you view our friendship were not appropriate to post to a public board. I know how you feel and you never did understand how I feel, so leave it at that.
My comments on this thread were the same ones I would make to any other poster who tells me that they took 10 days to pay for an item and then wants to complain that the seller did not drop everything they were doing and get the item posted the next day.
My feelings come from personal experiences lately. I am having to travel from FL to KY for weeks at a time to take care of my Father.
When I set up auctions now, I know how much time I need to make sure payments are received and packages can be mailed before I have to go on my next trip.
My TOS says I need to hear from the buyer within 3 days of auction end and I want to know what method of payment they are going to use. This lets me determine if I have enough time to mail the package from home or if I need to lug the item with me to KY and have them mail their payment to Dad's address.
I don't feel I need to tell my buyers my personal business and if they would just meet the conditions of my TOS, there would be no problem.
Needless to say, I am still getting buyers who never contact me within that 3 day window and then I have to worry about the transaction when I should be worrying about my Father instead.
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glassgrl
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posted on July 15, 2005 10:34:55 AM new
Well D = if I start a thread please refrain your lily white self from posting in it. I don't need your comments. I would think you'd have enough sense to do that.
Just pretend I don't exsist - that ought to be easy enough for you!
NOW - are you satisfied - you got to post your rebuttal and you want everybody to feel sorry for you and make me out to be the bad guy.
Folks - I asked her if she wanted to go out on the boat with us for the 4th of July. And she said LEAVE ME ALONE. So I am. I told her that I was sorry that she was having to deal with her father etc but I thought she could use a nice day on the water (which we had).
Again D - if I start a thread please don't post whatever comments you feel like making and I will do the same.
Go rescue the world.
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parklane64
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posted on July 15, 2005 11:09:29 PM new
I don't understand. It's not a full moon. And this is not the GG that is always so helpful.
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glassgrl
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posted on July 16, 2005 01:18:42 PM new
let's just say you don't want to get on my bad side - I'll take you out to the cemetary at midnite and bury you
I just amazed at the audacity of ltray to comment on something she knows nothing about - when she knew I had told her to take me out of her address book and said "don't call me, I'll call you". Essentially - I'm over it.
If you look at the thread you'll see she's the only one that made that kind of a comment. "You took 10 days to pay and are now complaining because she took 10 days to ship?" Meaning what? I'm stupid or just ignorant?
IF I had mailed the payment then it could have taken that long to get there - that still doesn't mean that the seller should thumb their nose and say I'll send it when I feel like it.
And I HAVE had payments take that long and yes - I DO send their item onto them the next day - heck these days with deadbeats I'm glad to GET the payment. I don't send the buyer/customer some snotty lying letter that says that I harrassed them 3 days after I paid about where my item is. I mean REALLY - nobody does that but newbies.
From the Seller - Quote: "We have not returned and your item went out on Tuesday." Tuesday was the 12th. I received THIS email the next day after I started this thread...
This message is to alert you that the following package(s) is(are) due
for delivery by FedEx:
Shipped Date 7/14/2005
Scheduled Arrival Date 7/19/2005
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on July 16, 2005 01:38:35 PM new
why don't you two just right click on each other's handles in here and block the posts from each other? that way, neither of you will have to read what the other says sometimes, ignorance is bliss 
http://stores.ebay.com/postcards-postcards?refid=postcards-postcards
http://www.vintagepostcards.org
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aintrichyet
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posted on July 16, 2005 02:01:27 PM new
parklane64 said: "And this is not the GG that is always so helpful."
glassgrl said "Folks - I asked her if she wanted to go out on the boat with us for the 4th of July. And she said LEAVE ME ALONE. So I am. I told her that I was sorry that she was having to deal with her father etc but I thought she could use a nice day on the water (which we had)."
....... sounds purdy darn 'helpful' to me.
Perhaps this is a rift that will work itself out ...
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glassgrl
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posted on July 21, 2005 06:36:32 AM new
Follow up. Finally received it - or at least I guess I did. They cut the Maker's label out of it so I could be from Kmart for all I know. In the auction they say they remove the owner's label but it was still in there - the Designer's label wasn't.
Best part? I received it in a FedEx EXPRESS box sent via Ground.
They probably used to turn the Priority Mail boxes inside out
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AintRichYet
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posted on July 21, 2005 06:47:40 AM new
well, now just try it on.
Hope it fits, and that you look like a million bucks.
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