Ebay facilitates deceptive shipping status.

[tgles]

Ebay facilitates deceptive shipping status:
1. The word, "Shipped" has a universally recognized definition and is PAST TENSE.
2. Seller should not be able to mark items, "Shipped" while retaining possession for more than 24 hours.
3. If a shipping company does not HAVE (present tense) an item, it CANNOT be, "Shipped" (past tense).

4. At the same time Ebay status can show 'shipped" while the shipper status is "awaiting acceptance"

5. It is within Ebay's capability to fix this if they do not want their site to imply a status that is misleading.

[natoman777]

If you order online from almost any store it will say "shipped" when the label is purchased NOT when it is actually in the hands of the shipping carrier.  Prior to tracking being a normal thing, this happened even more and people would say they shipped and then a month later you might see the package.  This is not an eBay thing, it is an eCommerce thing