Why was my hold date extended after delivery? Zero sense.

[f_keck]

I will be leaving the eBay seller scene pretty soon (I havent even been around it that long) due to the way payments are handled.  But this last one really has me scratching my head.  When I first sold my item and it was paid for, it showed an expected date for payment.  When I printed and shipped the item, it changed again (as expected, to a shorter timeframe), and now that today the item has been delivered, the date for the hold changed again, adding another two weeks?

Can anyone make sense of this for me?  It is bad enough that the sellers have to sit around for however long it takes a buyer to leave feedback (IF they leave feedback), but to have the date shortened, just to be extended again by a couple of weeks is absurd.  I am not even upset that I am left at the behest of the buyer, I am used to that by now, but I just sat for the past few seeing one date, assuming it would decrease after the item was received (as it always has in my experience), just to see two more weeks added on after the item has arrived at it's destination.

This dampened my day at the least.

[stainlessenginecovers]

Don't know; you are not posting from the account that shows what item you sold. Presumedly, it's of higher value and if you are new to selling (recent seller past 6 mo's), there could be additional holds due to 'value' or 'category'. 

[bimm_corp]

@f_keck 

>now that today the item has been delivered, the date for the hold changed again, adding another two weeks?

Since I have seen so many seller complaints on these boards about eBay's excessive hold times, it's quite possible that eBay has been doing this kind of thing on a regular basis to all new and returning sellers. eBay stands to make additional profit off the "float" from millions of seller dollars they put on hold.

Zero sense? Makes perfect sense for eBay.