@castlemagicmemories wrote:
@creekcoyote wrote:
@castlemagicmemories wrote:
@*madison wrote:
When buyers pay, they just want the item, they are not interested in excuses, they didn't buy an excuse.
Buyers have their own health and family issues to think about, they don't need sellers telling them about their own tales of woe. No-one cares, just ship the item please.
I see your point. It may also depend on how many times they have heard the story before. Water weareth away stone and all that. Patience may not be inexhaustible. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but you know you can also be taken advantage of in this way.
Most buyers honestly don't have to worry about be taken advantage of.
This is E-bay where 99% of the time they will get their money back if they simply file a timely claim.
Yes, people want the item that they paid for but that doesn't always happen.
In a case like this, my first concern would be to ensure that I got my money back or would be able to get my money back if I didn't get the item within ten days to two weeks. Actually, under any circumstances, quick shipping is not a concern of mine. I have never bought anything on-line that was so important that I couldn't wait at least ten days for it to show up.
All the issues over quick shipping simply 'boggles' my mind. But that is for another thread at another time.
I'm sorry, perhaps I was not clear there. When I referred to being taken advantage of, I mean in the sense that you may be falling for something that is not true~as in it depends on how many times you have heard a story~and things aren't always true. I've worked with people who took off because their Mother died~only to have their Mother call in to talk to them. That's an illustration. I'm aware that this happens but hopefully we can remind ourselves that it may be true (death in the family, or seller illness, either one) and react compassionately.
I also never meant in relation to quick shipping; that's why I say somewhat timely, and I have often said that nothing needs to be that fast~I understand it involved transit~and it isn't a heart or insulin. I'm aware of cases for not as described or INR, and that you have thirty days past the last date of the estimated delivery timeframe to file a case. I know that getting the item you paid for doesn't always happen.
I understand what you are saying. I just don't think that it necessarily applies here on E-bay. There is nothing wrong with being compassionate and allowing the seller more time, even if the reason stated by the seller isn't the correct one.
I would take the seller at their word and then if I didn't get my item within a week or two, would simply file for a INR and refund.
We are continually being reminded on these threads that this is just a business deal, nothing personal.
So I wouldn't waste any time thinking that I was being taken advantage of. There is very little that a seller can do, on this site, to take advantage of a buyer. So they had to wait an extra week for their item. They still would get their item. That is not being taken advantage of.
I guess I fail to understand just what benefit a seller would have in deliberately not shipping as they stated unless there was a reason for it.
Almost every delivery time is an estimated time. No guarantee that the item will get to the buyer on the exact date. None of these delivery times is written in blood. If I remember reading the shipping times on many of the items that I have bought, the term used was 'usually ships in such and such a time.' Except for the guarantee that E-bay gives to the buyer.
And E-bay does give ample time to file a claim even if the item doesn't come after two weeks.
And if the buyer didn't get their item or get refunded, that would, most likely, rest totally on the back of the buyer for not following the policies of E-bay to ensure that they would get their money back.
