Has anyone else experienced an uptick in slow shipping or wrong items sent since the "pay after delivery" option ended? I do a lot of shopping on eBay with 1700 feedbacks (not counting the fact that seller often leave one feedback for multiple items) in the last few years. In all of that time rarely did I encounter problems. The occasional CD or DVD not working, a few times the wrong item was since or didn't come but lately it's been back to back problems etc.
I know Paypal paid the seller immediately and later took the money from the buyer, but I can't help but wonder if more care was taken since Paypal would notice if they were careless or late too often. They'd be the one to deal them.
I feel sellers must be treated with respect, it's tough for them as buyers can complain for no real reason. But some are now taking advantage. I know people who stopped selling on eBay because buyers were unfair. I try not to complain and have not reported a few wrong items or something that was less than it shoud have been.
Yet in the past few weeks I've had vitamins come with the lid falling off with the seal intact, but the bottle had far less than capsules than it was to supposed to have. They said the "big machines make mistakes", sent an unasked for replacement bottle and it too has the wrong number. Wrong colors sent and one who claimed (after I paid for the item) they needed 2 to 3 weeks to mail it to avoid paying high fees for eBay's label.
Another seller who said they're in the US but after too long many I asked eBay to step in for an answer and it seems the tracking number they gave eBay was bogus. I know that happens with some overseas items because they give a tracking number but it never works. This is all happening in the same time period.
Rather deal with the buyer than Paypal?
