THEFT OF PACKAGE

[hot5540]

I was wondering if there is anythingi can do to get my items from someone who wasnt supposed to get my package,opened it realized it wasnt thiers and kept item im the person who supposed to get item seller sent to wrong address i dont want the seller to get in trouble because he tried to get item back but was blocked by person who recieved package any ideas on how to proceed?

[downunder-61]

And we think buyer's don't read things LOL

[mn467462]

I'm not following. How did you package go to someone else? And how does the seller know who got your package? 

[mementomoria]

I'm thinking that maybe the seller may have mixed up shipping labels and sent the item to a winner of one of his other auctions.

[a_c_green]

@hot5540 : Please click the blue Reply button below, and come back to give us the further details that several people are requesting here.

[hot5540]

Address was correct person recieved my package opened it realized it wasnt his told the seller yes i recieved it and then blocked seller from trying to get package sent back

[hot5540]

it was shipped someplace else this is what the seller got from ebay, It was the QR code. Then i asked what a Qr code was and someone commented that he knew it wasnt his and preceded to keep package anyway

[hot5540]

My address is confirmed ive been on ebay since 2002 selling model cars

[hot5540]

im assuming a qr code is something you get from ebay this seller is a honest seller noscams here we have bought and sold between us for a couple years

[slati_2013]

I don't understand why so many are having a hard time understanding this. Seller had package to send. Printed the wrong label and sent it to a buyer who had bought something else. Buyer gets package and decides to keep it. The buyer who actually purchased the item wants to know how to retrieve it from the other buyer. 

All the buyer needs to do is file a INR case. As for the seller who won't return the item, the seller can contact the USPS and file a claim. Best would be to let the buyer who would not return the item to know a case is being filed with the police and postal inspectors. That might get the package sent back. 

Whenever I have multiple packages to ship, I am extremely careful about about making sure I am sending them to the right place. It is easy to mess up. 

[hot5540]

It was some kind of code he got from ebay im assuming its a shipping code but address was not correct i get that but when seller realized it he emailed person who got my package to send back he has sold to this person before

[hot5540]

one from the past yes

[hot5540]

you hit it right on the nose by the way whats a inr case funny thing is he knew it wasnt his he sent the seller a email saying he recieved it and blocked him

[janet9988]

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@hot5540 wrote:

I was wondering if there is anythingi can do to get my items from someone who wasnt supposed to get my package,opened it realized it wasnt thiers and kept item im the person who supposed to get item seller sent to wrong address i dont want the seller to get in trouble because he tried to get item back but was blocked by person who recieved package any ideas on how to proceed?

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There is nothing anyone can do since that other buyer is refusing to send the item back to the seller.

It is not considered theft as the seller addressed the package to that buyer.

 The selelr just needs to refund you.

[a_c_green]

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@hot5540 wrote:

you hit it right on the nose by the way whats a inr case funny thing is he knew it wasnt his he sent the seller a email saying he recieved it and blocked him

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Okay, an INR case is Item Not Received. If you have not received your item by the last Estimated Date of Delivery (which is shown to you when purchasing the item), you go to your Purchase History page and select the option for "I didn't receive it." Open that dispute and the seller will have to provide proof that the tracking number shows delivery to the City and ZIP of the address you provided with your payment. Otherwise the seller will have to refund in full.

That QR code mentioned previously is a Quick Response code (Wikipedia explanation is here), and is provided to sellers by eBay as an alternative to printing the shipping label, for sellers who do not have a printer. Instead of printing a label and sticking it to the package themselves, they can take the package to the post office, show the QR code on their phone, and the PO will print the label for them. It sounds like the seller may have messed up, and either shown the PO a previous code (for someone else), or simply had more than one package to ship that day, and stuck the PO-printed labels on the wrong boxes.

[powell-memorabilia]

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@josephb555 wrote:

If someone is keeping your package then they are stealing. You should contact both the police and the post office and they will get your package back.

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No, they won’t.  Seriously- the police and post office have better things to do than chase someone’s hunch.  MAYBE something was mis-delivered, but try proving that the package wasn’t stolen from a porch or rejected by the recipient.