When a seller uses the eBay app to prepare a shipping label, eBay automatically and instantly sends an email to the buyer stating that the item "has been shipped" and is "on its way." I fact, there is no connection between shipping (custody of the item changing to the carrier) and preparing the label. Shipping will almost always take place later. I the laterst instance, the "It's been shipped" was 1/5/18 and as of this typing (1/10/18 09"40 PM EST) the item, according to the carrier, is not in its possession. That is, in law it has not been "shipped."
eBay customer service repeatedly says it cannot do anything about this practice or even suggest who at eBay has authority to address this practice.
It was just suggested by eBay second tier customer service that I file criminal charges against eBay as a means on getting its attention. (As I changed position in reliance on a willfully false statement of fact - a statement delivered over the Internet - that wouild be Wire Fraud.)
Every time I get one of these willfuilly inaccurate "shipping" notices, it grates. And for mthe life of me I cannot see how it puts one extra penny in eBaay's pocket. Seems like all downside.
