[78-L] (Yawn) Another eBay disaster

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

I know the feeling.

When I purchased a turntable some weeks ago ( I wrote about it here) it 
arrived with hardly any packing. Some Styrofoam and some loose red paper 
was all that had placed in the box, not a very secure one, and the thing 
rocked around inside the box and was damaged. Short version: the buyer 
protection thing worked, possibly because I made such a stink about how 
poorly it was packaged and that when it arrived it was no longer in the 
condition it was in when it was shipped. The insurance/tracking number 
would not pull up anything - and what I suspect was this. The seller had 
not labeled the package well, placing the to: address where the return 
should go and vice versa for the return address. So without intending to 
she mailed it to herself. That would explain why it took so long to get 
here, it had been returned to her and she had to mail it again. Also 
might explain why the insurance turned up blank on line - it was not 
insured the second time. I suppose the sticker stayed on for the 2nd 
trip. Also might explain why she was so reticent to give me the tracking 
info in the first place.

Live and learn, well, some people do...

joe salerno


On 10/22/2012 11:44 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Didn't think this was still happening but of course I stopped buying on eBay
> years ago (I sell, but I know what I'm doing). A few people have their winnings
> shipped to a US address I use and I picked up one package today for a Toronto
> collector. The box was something that looked as if it had been picked out of a
> dumpster, and the "packing" consisted of several oversize hunks of cardboard
> folded a few times and loosely stuffed into the box. The main item was a rare
> 3-disc album and the seller had stuck cardboard dividers between the
> discs..what kind of moronic brainless thought process can possibly cause anyone
> to think this is a good thing? Naturally two of the discs were broken. Nothing
> around the album, no bubble wrap or scrunched up paper or styrofoam chips, no
> indication that the seller had insured the package.
>
> On behalf of the purchaser..AARGH!
>
> dl
>
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Joe Salerno