What action should i take, if any?

[inhawaii]

I bought and paid for this item on 4-16-19.

Estimated delivery between 4-24-19 and 4-29-19.

Today the tracking shows...

4-21-19: Tracking number provided.

4-25-19: USPS in possession of package.

4-25-19: Departed post office.

4-26-19: Arrived at distribution center.

4-29-19: In transit, arriving late. 

Most of the delay was the sellers.  It took 9 days to get the package to the USPS. 

The USPS has only had the package for 4 days.

I contacted the seller today and got a response that the package will be later due to the USPS.

Obviously the package will not show up on time. Is there anything i can do?  What would you do?

[m60driver]

If it will help to get your inner garment out of a bunch you can always give a low star rating  regarding delivery time when giving feedback.

[ed8108]

This sometimes happens, usually

Not a terrible situation but it is a disappointment for a buyer.

I currently have an item that is in transit to me, ebay records say shipped as first class mail, USPS tracking however indicates actual shipping as 

Media mail.

I suspect the seller mat have downgraded the shipping service for sone additional profit, since the shipping cost was appropriate for first class.

On ebay you should expect to not always receive that for which you have paid.

I feel lucky that I am not paying four times the actual shipping cost for  delivery of an item already several days overdue. 

Solution: simply allow more time to receive the item.

[ed8108]

A further issue is that the item according to the USPS list is not eligible for media mail shipping.

An experienced ebay seller, 100% positive feedback

[jeannicho22]

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@coolections wrote:

You are in Hawaii. I would do nothing but be happy when the item arrives. Tracking is showing it is on the way.

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Have a Mai Tai, pop some macadamia nuts while twirling your kukui nut lei and enjoy the sunset.  Oh, and pass the L&L BBQ chicken. 

[femmefan1946]

@coolections 

You are in Hawaii.

Mail goes to Hawai'i by planes not rafts.

There is no reason for delivery to be any slower from California to Hawai'i than from California to Maine.

[city*satins]

I contacted the seller today and got a response that the package will be later due to the USPS.

I wouldn't have contacted the seller since I could see that the package was en route. The only reason to contact the seller, that I could see, would be to demand that they provide an explanation why the package wasn't mailed on time.   That always seems to me like an unnecessary communication, inviting the seller to tell you something you consider either a lie or a lame excuse. So why ask since there's no answer the seller can provide that will make anything any better.

But some buyers love to do this.     Please explain...  Why..........  I would like to know.....  What reason was there for....

Or was there some other reason to contact the seller about a package that is clearly on its way?

Obviously the package will not show up on time. Is there anything i can do?  What would you do?

If I receive the item in the condition described I might or might not leave positive feedback for the seller, some time in May. If I felt like it.  I wouldn't leave neutral, negative or comment on how slow the seller was to get it in the mail.  Once I've got it, I've got it.

I reserve negs for fraud and neutrals for truly egregious performance failures that aren't fraudulent

[castlemagicmemories]

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@m60driver wrote:

If it will help to get your inner garment out of a bunch you can always give a low star rating  regarding delivery time when giving feedback.

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As in, Knickers in a knot?

[inhawaii]

Like many other people on this thread have said, i was kinda hoping the seller would have said something like "Sorry, i was a little late shipping it out.  Let me know if it doesn't arrive in the next few days".  That would have been nice. 

[inhawaii]

I agree. A negative is out of the question. Definitely a neutral or positive with a note.  Depends on my mood that day.  😃

[city*satins]

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@inhawaii wrote:

Like many other people on this thread have said, i was kinda hoping the seller would have said something like "Sorry, i was a little late shipping it out.  Let me know if it doesn't arrive in the next few days".  That would have been nice. 

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I guess it could have seemed nice but to me its about as unnecessary as asking somebody why they didn't thank you for holding the door open for them and waiting to hear the answer.  To me, it's just inviting confrontation.

It's possible that we may have a different idea of what constitutes nice.

[trustedbasset]

“I want to be in Hawaii” said trusted from Minnesota. It’s 40 degrees for a high today, cold weather just goes on and on.

[fern*wood]

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@inhawaii wrote:

Like many other people on this thread have said, i was kinda hoping the seller would have said something like "Sorry, i was a little late shipping it out.  Let me know if it doesn't arrive in the next few days".  That would have been nice. 

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You know what I found to be nice?  A buyer in Hawaii that I had early in my selling days that didn't say a word to me or harm my feedback for shipping their item via parcel post.   I didn't know any better at that time and had no idea it would take over a month to arrive, but it did.  

[nmemoryof]

The seller was negligent to mail it 9 days after payment.  You have every right to complain about it.  However, it would be very noble of you to show the seller some grace as long as once you do get it, you are satisfied that the item is as described.  THEN, don't buy from that seller again. 

Life is too short and your health and happiness too valuable to waste time making a fuss every single time you are slighted.  It's good for one's character to let some things slide.  Save your gripes for the big things that actually involve money.

I wouldn't give him negative feedback over it, either.  I think negative feedback should be for big, bad, dishonest things.  OK there is some slight dishonesty in this....but who knows what's going on in his life.  If your purchase turns out good, oh well.  Forgive.

[inhawaii]

Ah yes, the 2 dreaded words for any Hawaiian:  Parcel Post.  

[city*satins]

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@fern*wood wrote:

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@inhawaii wrote:

Like many other people on this thread have said, i was kinda hoping the seller would have said something like "Sorry, i was a little late shipping it out.  Let me know if it doesn't arrive in the next few days".  That would have been nice. 

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You know what I found to be nice?  A buyer in Hawaii that I had early in my selling days that didn't say a word to me or harm my feedback for shipping their item via parcel post.   I didn't know any better at that time and had no idea it would take over a month to arrive, but it did.  

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There are some great buyers out there.  I had a similar experience with a buyer in Singapore who bought a lot of 15 cheongsams from me and I shipped surface which really did mean by boat.  The time expired for her to open a case for Item Not Received, but she didn't. She patiently waited and trusted that the package would arrive, which it took over 2 months to do.  

Afterward she wrote me a nice note to let me know that she'd received the box, was happy with her purchases, and gently suggested that next time I am sending something overseas I avoid 'surface', since it really meant surface of the ocean, back then.