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Confused On An Ebay Sale

 
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Posted 05/17/2024   11:24 am  Show Profile Check wheelman's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add wheelman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I had a packet of stamps that I moved from fixed price to auction. I did not know that it was sold until ebay made a deposit to my checking account. IE: No email notice that the sale was made. I notified the buyer of the delay and promptly shipped it and recorded it as such on ebay, The item showed up this morning again as not relisted or sold??
Isolated instance or has anyone else had this happen?
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Posted 05/17/2024   11:40 am  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I've had a couple of occasions (not recently) when the ebay email notification system didn't work, and I didn't realise I'd sold an item until I looked in "awaiting postage". Maybe just an odd glitch.
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Posted 05/19/2024   04:24 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DrewM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hold on! Hold on! Do computers and systems used on computers sometimes cause glitches that create confusions? They sure do. Every single time I call certain companies for an explanation, I am never connected with a human being but only with a clueless digitized voice, and every time I use any website at some point it is sure to glitch. As human beings, we are trained to assume we screwed up or at least missed something, but more and more I see the world being run by algorithms and badly-designed or at least glitchy computer programs. Put more simply, what goes on gets sloppier over time and more careless. But at least that takes us human beings off the hook. The last time I was locked inside my own car for 45 minutes was . . . never. I'm referring to the failed computer update today on some woman's Tesla which locked her inside her own car in boiling hot weather for unknown reasons. That's the kind of technology I could do without -- the kind that will kill someone.

Well, now, I'm glad I got that off my chest! I feel better already.
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Edited by DrewM - 05/19/2024 04:27 am
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Posted 05/19/2024   09:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add drkohler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
And the ebay global shipping program (a complete turd) has introduced their premium shipping charges it seems:

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Posted 05/19/2024   10:06 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
How great.

Buy your stamp for a tenner, pay almost thirteen times that amount for shipping. That will promote business.

Does it come in 24-carat gold foil?
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Edited by NSK - 05/19/2024 10:07 am
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Posted 05/19/2024   10:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add oldboldandbrash to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Lol. You can just either unenroll from the international shipping program or just add your own shipping method for international orders when you're first making the listing. That's I do but I do make it a point on bulky items to indeed use ebay international.
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Posted 05/19/2024   11:02 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add drkohler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That seems to be a glitch in the ebay software.
When I click on items, the charge is "lowered" to anywhere between $27 and $47 (no logic visible for the range).
What is unacceptable is the shipping time. I paid on May 1st for an item the seller wouldn't budge from using the esp and the package has moved a grand total of about 10 miles until now May 19. Expected shipping time is around 5 to 6 weeks.... (I bought a few items at a recent Siegel auction and the package arrived at my home after just short of 60 hours transit time).

It seems with esp items are sent to a "repackaging center" where a $5/hour illegal central american immigrant (with likely no knowledge whatsover about handling stamps) repackages the stamps...

Some sellers simply stop communicating when kindly asked to switch to a better s&h option for us overseas buyers ( ebay seems to force esp as almost all offers are now defaulted to this stupid shipping method).
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Edited by drkohler - 05/19/2024 11:03 am
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Posted 05/19/2024   4:08 pm  Show Profile Check wheelman's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add wheelman to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
SOLVED
Well this is interesting - somehow all of my ebay emails were being blocked. I discovered it accidently when clearing my deleted items folder.
That doesn't solve how it relisted again so I guess partially solved.
Paul
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Edited by wheelman - 05/19/2024 4:09 pm
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