How long does seller have to ship?

[speedyjg13]

How many days does a seller have to ship a card from eBay?

Is the 14 day return policy, 14 days from when you buy/pay the card or 14 days from whenever the card arrives?

[shrevecity]

How many days does a seller have to ship a card from eBay?

Is the 14 day return policy, 14 days from when you buy/pay the card or 14 days from whenever the card arrives?

Depends on handling time stated. The return clock does not start til item is received. 14 days also does not apply to items that are not as described

[3124508 on COMC]

Unfortunately, a seller never has to ship a card.

[epatmythes]

Unfortunately, a seller never has to ship a card.

Sadly, true!

Just had this happen to me last night. I've been looking for a very specific card for about 6 months, and this particular one really fit my PC preference. I won the auction... paid yesterday. Seller printed the shipping label at 6:31pm and by 10:00pm I had a refund stating the card was lost in transit and likely can't be retrieved as he left it on a train!

So, he prints the label at 6:31pm, packages it and gets on a train to go to one of the approximately zero Post Offices that are open after 6pm in the US... and being one of (up to) the 36 auctions he sold in the past 24 hours, knew with certainty roughly 3.5 hours later that my purchase was left on said train!

I'm guessing more likely is that one of the under-bidders, or someone else, made him a better offer that he saw in his messages after printing the shipping label and simply decided to screw me on the deal...

I will be reporting him to eBay and crossing my fingers they investigate to the point of having his 16-feedback account suspended and/or terminated!

[shrevecity]

Sadly, true!

Just had this happen to me last night. I've been looking for a very specific card for about 6 months, and this particular one really fit my PC preference. I won the auction... paid yesterday. Seller printed the shipping label at 6:31pm and by 10:00pm I had a refund stating the card was lost in transit and likely can't be retrieved as he left it on a train!

So, he prints the label at 6:31pm, packages it and gets on a train to go to one of the approximately zero Post Offices that are open after 6pm in the US... and being one of (up to) the 36 auctions he sold in the past 24 hours, knew with certainty roughly 3.5 hours later that my purchase was left on said train!

I'm guessing more likely is that one of the under-bidders, or someone else, made him a better offer that he saw in his messages after printing the shipping label and simply decided to screw me on the deal...

I will be reporting him to eBay and crossing my fingers they investigate to the point of having his 16-feedback account suspended and/or terminated!


Most post offices are open to some extent 24 hours a day. There are some like one in Dallas that has clerks available 24/7.
The closest one to me you are able to drop mail off 24/7 but is only open 9 to 4 M-F for counter service.

That said his story is non-sense.

Don't count on Ebay doing anything, their eyes he refunded you its over other than the neg. Now if the other buyers have the same issue then its likely something will happen.

[epatmythes]

Most post offices are open to some extent 24 hours a day. There are some like one in Dallas that has clerks available 24/7.
The closest one to me you are able to drop mail off 24/7 but is only open 9 to 4 M-F for counter service.

That said his story is non-sense.

Don't count on Ebay doing anything, their eyes he refunded you its over other than the neg. Now if the other buyers have the same issue then its likely something will happen.

I check the USPS website, nothing within a 30 mile radius of his origin zip open later than 5pm. Lobby and drop off might be open, but as I alluded, he had up to 36 packages he could have been shipping. With no counter service open... means no acceptance receipt and/or acceptance scan to look up online... so fishy he knew mine was one (or the one) that was missing.

Probably true, but on the other hand, eBay does have a pretty good track record of taking seriously accusations against sellers for misdealings through eBay messaging. Thus, keeping my fingers crossed... I can't NOT report :)

[shrevecity]

I check the USPS website, nothing within a 30 mile radius of his origin zip open later than 5pm. Lobby and drop off might be open, but as I alluded, he had up to 36 packages he could have been shipping. With no counter service open... means no acceptance receipt and/or acceptance scan to look up online... so fishy he knew mine was one (or the one) that was missing.

Probably true, but on the other hand, eBay does have a pretty good track record of taking seriously accusations against sellers for misdealings through eBay messaging. Thus, keeping my fingers crossed... I can't NOT report :)

There is no requirement for sellers to get those scans. Here they will not scan packages with online shipping on them. Usually get their first scan at the regional processing center.

[tier1dc]

There is no requirement for sellers to get those scans. Here they will not scan packages with online shipping on them. Usually get their first scan at the regional processing center.

really? that's annoying.

USPS near me has opened a couple of 24/7 automated package drops that you can scan labels and drop. Have to do it one by one but it's the best thing they've done in a while. Can get my packages scanned and in the system whenever I want.

https://i.imgur.com/FhzBy9Dm.jpg

Will add the closest one to me has been down for 2 days though...so in typical postal service fashion it works well when it works.

[Chris Henderson]

There is no requirement for sellers to get those scans. Here they will not scan packages with online shipping on them. Usually get their first scan at the regional processing center.

It's the same here. It's one of the reasons I don't have one day processing. They don't usually get scanned until after midnight. If it's small enough it goes in my mailbox. My carrier scans everything.

Ebay probably won't do anything about. There is no easy way to prove what you claim.