What happen to lost eBay packages?

[kongweichow]

I would like to know what happen to lost eBay packages. Do they ever get return? Or they end up in a warehouse collecting dust.

[kitschy*loot]

They end up where all lost packages end up... somewhere lost🤣

[buyselljack2016]

Some lost, are just that "lost.

Fell in a river. Burned in a damaged vehicle. Whatever.

Some "lost" items end up at (if USPS) the mail recovery in ?? Atlanta ??  The can end up there because of illegible/lost labels.

If there is a packing slip they may contact the sender to determine disposition.

If there is no way to identify where it is to go, or where it came from it will be sold or destroyed depending upon what it is.

Back in the 1st decade of the new millennium there was an eBay ID that sold those items.

[oszika]

"Lost" packages are uncommon. Most times the buyer receives the package, but the mailman forgot the "delivered" scan. Other cases are unclaimed packages that are returned to sender.

[simba6]

First off, eBay does not ship or handle packages.  It's the shipping service used that might lose an item.  Some packages get "stuck" in transit and a call to the shipper often gets them delivered.   While rare, packages do get lost.   I had an ATV tire lost once.  It was insured but still strange and it never did show up.

USPS at one time did auction off lots of items that could not be delivered. Don't know if that still do that.

[mtgraves7984]

Is this still about your figurine? I thought you went to your CC for reimbursement for non-delivery. Expand, please...

[kongweichow]

No! This was another figurine I bought on eBay which got lost several months ago in Jamaica Queens by United States Postal Service. I got refunded for lost shipment. But I wonder what happen to the lost package.

[dryophelia]

If one knew what happened to the package, then it wouldn’t be lost. 

But, and, or, being ‘lost’ also describes what happened to the package. 

Posted at 4:21

[1786davycrockett]

A few of my media packages have been "lost" over the last dozen years -- I simply assume that they were eventually delivered (after the buyer had opened and easily won an INR case, and never bothered to notify me); or the packages simply became flotsam in the "USPS Triangle" -- similar to the Bermuda Triangle, but not quite so moist.