eBay rant coming up!!
I recently sold two phones of mine and some
juice so I could
buy myself a Droid phone.
Now.. when I buy something off eBay, I pay immediately. I mean hell, you commit to buy the item, and it takes you right to the page where you can make your payment. Who on earth wouldn't just pay? You get your item sooner and it's just... a decent damn thing to do.
Well.. nope. Both of the people who bought the phones waited about two days before they paid. Why? It just seems wrong to me.
Secondly.. the money finally cleared and I went to buy my phone. The seller who I purchased the phone from somehow enabled something where people HAVE to pay immediately and until you pay the item is still listed as for sale. So yeah, I paid immediately.
That was last night... an entire business day has gone by now and she/he still has not shipped the phone. It's one phone and a charger being sent in a flat rate priority box. You're a seller on eBay trying to establish a good reputation and/or keep that reputation... Throw the stupid phone in the box and drop it in your mailbox. Or AT THE VERY LEAST print out a shipping label so your buyer has a tracking number - Which we all know the importance of.
But nope. I paid, she got, no DEMANDED her money immediately for being an established seller.. and then sat around on her .... all day as far as I can tell.
What the hell is this about??? Am I just spoiled by hundreds of pleasant transactions here on ECF, or did I just wade through a ton of unnecessary douchebaggery??
I mean, the absolute only pleasant part of this whole ordeal was selling my
juice to Misplacedsooner. Who paid within 3 minutes, the money cleared immediately and I shipped the next day. But with eBay, you have to wait like 10 days for the money to clear at all, and when you buy an item apparently the seller can just sit around twiddle their thumbs and not bother to contact you at all.
Nah, I'm done with eBay. If only the forum had a non eCig related Classies section. It'd be all I need.