@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
@retro_entertainment_collectibles
Re: Tracking
When I first got on eBay approx 20 years ago, I knew if I bought something with cheaper postage it was going to take longer. I looked at it as a choice the seller was offering me. I was using my discretion when I clicked buy. Now, when a seller offers for sake of argument a cheaper no bells and whistles shipping option they are held accountable by eBay and the buyer when with those types of services there is nothing a seller can do once they've dropped in the mailbox. The only way I can actually get an item to a buyer in a specific time is if they are willing to include airfare, car rental and hotels in the cost of delivery. That's not gonna happen. I know. I've suggested. It's like when you buy a 200 dollar tv and try to compare it to 2000. It's not going to be the same experience.
-Lotz
PS. If I listed everything I sold with premium shipping options only I would have very few sales. That's how it would work for most sellers.
TV's a bad analogy as many of them are basically the same thing internally and if one simply flashes the service port with new software presto albeit some components may get too distressed. Years back my brother did that for me to a LG TV which turned into a $500 more expensive Samsung TV thanks to Linux and some software some dude wrote.
Tracking is the only form of validation that commonly exists, no argument there. The day isn't here yet when we can put merchandise into the Microwave oven, feed it a USB a card and presto it shows up in the buyers microwave oven LOL.
It's no secret the USPS keeps driving up rates, 20 years ago I could Priority mail a medium box for $3.95 thereabouts. Has the value of the US Dollar declined 300%+ since then? No idea.
I can't, don't and won't blame eBay for things completely out of their hands which is far far far more than that which is within their control. I do believe there are many things the company can do to make the eBay experience better for both sellers and buyers but I don't walk in the corporations shoes. I can't attest to what pressures and such exist within the company and externally pressed upon the company. From the outside looking in is more often than not completely different than from the inside looking out.
No different than say my Smartphone which seems amazingly simple and magical enough for me to engage in myriads of wonderous things! But I'm a software engineer and I know its far from simple and certainly not magic. My little phone has more computing power and sophisticated software and engineering than it took to put a man on the moon. It's more power than the Space Shuttle onboard machines had. But when I'm using it I don't consider all that went into it nor Samsung corporation's daily struggles, future vision or much anything else. Same same.
A big problem in America, perhaps much of the world is everyone cares be judge and jury myself often included albeit I try not to. What I have found is most things that seem ever so simple are usually quite the opposite, ever so complex. I'd cite my journey to "faith" but eBay won't let me roll. I admire those people who just know, my journey given my Mr. Spock Logi-Noodle far far far more complex.
