I have encountered a reoccurring problem with delivery dates from Chinese sellers.
Most Chinese sellers place estimates on delivery starting at 6 weeks and out to 12 weeks as a range for delivery. Generally, items are delivered before the 6 week time and that is not a problem to get your items early. The several times when the item still has not been delivered after 8+ weeks, then I would consider that LATE/LOST. However, due to ebay's rules, I can not report the item as "Not Delivered" until it is past the 12 week time period as estimated by the seller.
I believe the seller should not be permitted to estimated such a wide range for delivery (unless the item is being custom made or some other similar situation)... OR the buyer should be able to file a report of non-delivery within a more reasonable time period. I my latest situation, I believe the seller did ship the item in a timely manner (they shipped 4 days after my order was placed), and tracking shows that the item arrived in the USA in a short period of time (it arrived in USA 5 days after they sent it to shipping), but I still hasn't been delivered to me ( It has been 44 days so far) and I think the item has been lost in the mail somewhere. Meanwhile, I have been in contact with the seller and all I get is "please wait" & "confirm address" time killing type responses, and now I haven't gotten a response from the seller for 12 days. YET, I can not file a report for another 14 days.
In this particular transaction, I do not have much money involved (only a couple of dollars), but this has happened several times before and I am always stuck waiting for a very long time before I can formally complain. Then the sellers a generally slow when told to provide a refund.
I just had to blow-up and complain about this problem - - I doubt this is a Chinese scam to use your money for a couple of months interest free, because many China sellers deliver relatively quickly. However, when things do go wrong, they shouldn't have 12 weeks before having to deal with the situation.
Thank you for listening.
