06-28-2018 03:25 PM
Oh my god, I got a pretty good deal on an item on ebay recently and the seller only uses UPS. Ok well that is bad enough but for years, UPS cannot find my street address. So lo and behold, they tried to deliver to the next street over which crosses my street not one but TWO times. It's like a horseshoe. Why can't these bozos ever figure it out?
Also years back I was required by them for a job interview to get my DMV information showing that my driving record was clean, which it was, and they refused to hire me. What gives with this company. First of all, they were promising me a delivery job to go from Berkeley to Richmond back and forth during the holiday season, then during the interview the lady abruptly gives me a weird puzzled look (I'm suppose to have aspergers, heh I can TELL when someone's look is puzzled or confused) anyway, long story short they refused to give me the job and I was out the money for buying that silly piece of paper from DMV which was useless at that point.
UPS is the worst. I try and try and try to avoid them but once in a while a seller just HAS TO use this idiotic company for shipping. Not only are they the highest priced for shipping in the business but they also are well known for damaging goods in transit as well as delivering to the wrong address.
I only use FedEx and USPS. Sure neither of those are perfect but at least they are leaps and bounds better than UPS.
Now, will UPS even deliver to the correct address tomorrow for the re-delivery? LOL. And what do I do if they don't, claim on them the full value amount after they lose my package? That would be pretty golden.
06-28-2018 03:34 PM
Good luck with your re-delivery. I hope you get your item, rather than eventually a refund.
In the future, why not ask a seller to consider using USPS? You could even offer to pay for the difference in the shipping cost (if any).
06-28-2018 03:44 PM
OK, I’ll join the conversation.
Back when I had a brick and mortar store doing kitchen and bath remodeling I had to visit the buyer’s house to take measurements.
I was amazed at how many times the street sign was obscured by the branches of the neighbor’s tree that had grown over the years (I have a stop sign at the end of my street right now that has that problem).
Or the street sign is simply missing.
Or it is there, but cattycorner from where you would expect to find it so, of course, you miss it.
I’ve had houses with no numbers.
In each case the buyer giving the address of course knows where their street is but completely fails to provide a heads up for any problems.
I had one buyer tell me: Turn right at the last stop sign. OK - how do I know which one is the last one?
I had a buyer tell me: When you can almost see the ocean turn left.
Then there is the classic directional instructions:
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
06-28-2018 03:45 PM - edited 06-28-2018 03:46 PM
@nobody*s_perfect wrote:Good luck with your re-delivery. I hope you get your item, rather than eventually a refund.
In the future, why not ask a seller to consider using USPS? You could even offer to pay for the difference in the shipping cost (if any).
This. A USPS driver will be much more knowledgable about a particular route than UPS as they deliver to you daily vs once in a blue moon.
06-28-2018 04:04 PM
Makes me remember Chavy Chase in Funny Farm.
Guy tells him go past the barn that isn't there anymore...
06-28-2018 04:12 PM
Yeah suddenly a big tree grew in front of TWO signs on opposite sides of the street LOL. Suuure. 🙂 Well the street I'm on has the street they misdeliver to is a horseshoe shape and intersects my street twice so there's two distinct very obvious street signs that are clearly marked. Whoever delivers for UPS is very incompetant. They lost a $500 package of brake parts one time and the kid that lives at the same street number on the other street is into cars too, so I mean kinda no brainer what happened there.
I was hoping they would be curteous enough to send the truck back in the afternoon or late evening but of course they won't do that. They sat on the package at their facility in San Pablo all day yesterday and didn't bother moving it from there til today. It could have been attempted and then delivered properly by today. Well at least I still have some space left on my PC for now so I don't need the drive right away but, the product MSRP is like $385 and I got it for 60 bucks.. thanks to ebay. and would be funny if it was insured to four hundred dollars anyway probably wasn't tho lol.
06-28-2018 05:03 PM
Around here (very small town) we used to have ups and fedx drop off at the hardware store. Maybe you can do something similar?
06-28-2018 06:47 PM
@rockshorewave wrote:MSRP is like $385 and I got it for 60 bucks.. thanks to ebay. and would be funny if it was insured to four hundred dollars anyway probably wasn't tho lol.
Umm..I suspect that misdelivery is just the start of the problem...
06-28-2018 07:10 PM
Did the listing state that it would be coming by UPS? If so, why did you buy if you have such a problem with UPS?
06-28-2018 08:20 PM
06-28-2018 08:36 PM
I have a similiar situation with Fed/Ex who refuses to ring my doorbell or even put the package up on my front steps -- instead leaving the package out on the edge of the sidewalk. I have literally seen the driver toss the box out the door as they drive down the street. I have called Fed/Ex multiple times, but I have given up and only deal with seller's who ship USPS.
Call UPS and speak to a agent who can help you. Perhaps the GPS wasn't working properly when they tried to deliver your package.
I know you are frustrated at eBay and the seller, but it is a UPS issue.
The other option is to have the package held and go pick it up yourself.
Don't blame the seller. Not their fault. You knew when you purchased they shipped via UPS.
In the future if you find something you are interested in and the seller ship UPS, hit the back button and find another seller who uses USPS.
Hope you can get your package soon!
06-29-2018 01:57 AM
I totally get both your point and richard1st's.
First my issue is with FedEx not UPS which delivers flawlessly here. After years of them slapping a door tag on the front of the mailbox (sometimes when we were in the yard or driveway) and not even attempting. They now are claiming they can't find my address (3 inch high numbers on Jumbo mailbox directly in front of my house). Turns out now they are trying to find it on Miller Ave (in town) and I live on Miller Road (way out of town).
I solved the issue by now having any FedEx package delivered to my work. A Post Office in the next county.
I also understand richard1st. I have lived on "problem roads". First I lived on a "horseshoe" road it didn't cross anything but when they named the previous Township Road and County Roads which were just TR#? and CR#? they ended up giving each end to a different enumerator. One named their end Riverbottom Road and the other named it Old State Dam Road. On the same day I received letters from the County Enumerator office that my new address would be 1768 Riverbottom road and one that said my address would now be 3522 Old State Dam Road. And the other houses along the road also got 2 letters. Street signs were already erected (no I guess the crews never noticed that the roads was all one road. It was a mess.
Later I lived on a Private Road that carried the road number of the township road across the RR tracks with a gang box on the cross County Road. The County road came off US 36 and the Township road almost immediately turned off to the left that and within 100 feet there were RR tracks, just past that was a side road (my private road) that ran along side the tracks on the other side turning right. Directing people to my house, which was in FULL VIEW of US 36 was a hassle for the full 14 years that we lived there.
07-01-2018 03:33 AM
@rockshorewave wrote:Oh my god, I got a pretty good deal on an item on ebay recently and the seller only uses UPS. Ok well that is bad enough but for years, UPS cannot find my street address. So lo and behold, they tried to deliver to the next street over which crosses my street not one but TWO times. It's like a horseshoe. Why can't these bozos ever figure it out?
Also years back I was required by them for a job interview to get my DMV information showing that my driving record was clean, which it was, and they refused to hire me. What gives with this company. First of all, they were promising me a delivery job to go from Berkeley to Richmond back and forth during the holiday season, then during the interview the lady abruptly gives me a weird puzzled look (I'm suppose to have aspergers, heh I can TELL when someone's look is puzzled or confused) anyway, long story short they refused to give me the job and I was out the money for buying that silly piece of paper from DMV which was useless at that point.
UPS is the worst. I try and try and try to avoid them but once in a while a seller just HAS TO use this idiotic company for shipping. Not only are they the highest priced for shipping in the business but they also are well known for damaging goods in transit as well as delivering to the wrong address.
I only use FedEx and USPS. Sure neither of those are perfect but at least they are leaps and bounds better than UPS.
Now, will UPS even deliver to the correct address tomorrow for the re-delivery? LOL. And what do I do if they don't, claim on them the full value amount after they lose my package? That would be pretty golden.
The buyer, seller, or delivery person did nothing wrong - if you want a potato delivered to your door then move to Mars otherwise take the avocado and like it...