I know its been said, but geez i hate vape mail!

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element9633

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I ordered 100 ft of 28g kanthal, 2 sony 30a 18650 batteries and a nitecore charger off of ebay like 11 days ago. I received the kanthal fast, like in three days, but the batteries/charger are taking forever!!!!!! I hate waiting bc im so impatient. I also ordered a kamry k100 mech from fasttech, and i knew that would take a good bit bc it came from china, but theres no reason domestic mail should take this long :(
 

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I don't and never will buy Vapeing supplies from eBay.

Just saying.

Can i ask why? And the only reason I did was bc i did not have a debit card (lost my wallet) at that time, so i was only able to work with my paypal. On another note, just thought i would throw it out there, if anyone ever needs to use paypal for vape supplies, you should try contacting a company directly. I spoke with serveral online stores who dont accept paypal, that offered to do a special order through paypal with me
 

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Can i ask why? And the only reason I did was bc i did not have a debit card (lost my wallet) at that time, so i was only able to work with my paypal. On another note, just thought i would throw it out there, if anyone ever needs to use paypal for vape supplies, you should try contacting a company directly. I spoke with serveral online stores who dont accept paypal, that offered to do a special order through paypal with me

That right off would cause me NOT to deal with them. Paypal rules say no, doing work-arounds is dishonest, dishonest suppliers don't make for good business..
 

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They all were! One of my packages is in utah, and finally left there today. But according to the usps tracking status it had been there for four days. I think it is more on the usps side of things. Damn government run organizations! Lol


Thats weird, My packages took forever to come from NC, Whats goin on over there huh?!? Lol
 

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I frequently order juice from Mt Baker in Washington State and it is interesting to track the shipment routes that USPS uses between there and Houston, TX. Most of the time it's fairly direct, but I have watched my packages go as far out of the way as Detroit before heading south to Texas. The USPS is NOT an efficient, well oiled machine.

Bottom line, once your item has been shipped, you can no longer blame the seller for delays. You can only blame them for how long it takes to get to the Post Office.
 

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I frequently order juice from Mt Baker in Washington State and it is interesting to track the shipment routes that USPS uses between there and Houston, TX. Most of the time it's fairly direct, but I have watched my packages go as far out of the way as Detroit before heading south to Texas. The USPS is NOT an efficient, well oiled machine.

Bottom line, once your item has been shipped, you can no longer blame the seller for delays. You can only blame them for how long it takes to get to the Post Office.

If you read my second post in this thread, I stated it was on the usps side of things, not the seller. I'm smart enough to realize a seller is only responsible for shipping up to the point they drop it off
 

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I hear ya. I ordered something on the 17th and it's still not here. Last time I ordered from this company it was here in three days. It has nothing to do with the company, it's the postal service. And Paypal refuses to accept payment for e-cig related items which is why it would have to be done special request and on the sly. Not the fault of the company.
 

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A couple of months back I ordered from a company in FL used priority shipping. Item went from central FL, to near Detroit MI, back to Miami, then down to Puerto Rico through 3 different places there, back to FL, and finally made it's way to Indianapolis then to my small town.

Darn thing went on vacation and didn't bring me a t-shirt, baggie of sand, or even a key chain.
 

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Can i ask why? And the only reason I did was bc i did not have a debit card (lost my wallet) at that time, so i was only able to work with my paypal. On another note, just thought i would throw it out there, if anyone ever needs to use paypal for vape supplies, you should try contacting a company directly. I spoke with serveral online stores who dont accept paypal, that offered to do a special order through paypal with me

That right off would cause me NOT to deal with them. Paypal rules say no, doing work-arounds is dishonest, dishonest suppliers don't make for good business..

Do not agree at all ... I think that shows that the vendor has some empathy for their customers situation, and wishes to help them out if possible, in spite of the potential risk to the vendor... but to each his own. Paypal has no problem processing payments for Ebay e cigarette vendors, that should tell you something.
 

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Do not agree at all ... I think that shows that the vendor has some empathy for their customers situation, and wishes to help them out if possible, in spite of the potential risk to the vendor... but to each his own. Paypal has no problem processing payments for Ebay e cigarette vendors, that should tell you something.

Fully agreed. I use Paypal to buy e-cig stuff all the time from no-nonsense vendors. Usually not on ebay, tho. Actually, I don't consider a vendor very professional if they don't use Paypal. I'm not leaving my CC info in some shoddy form on every site I want to buy something from. Either it's Paypal, some other proper payment system, or no purchase.

Is this some US Paypal policy? Most European vendors seem to use Paypal, while most US vendors I've tried to order from wants me to fill out some shoddy homebrew "Gimme all your CC info here"-form. I've always wondered why... Not good business practice in my books. Hope I don't offend anyone. Not at all a anti-US kind of thing. Love you guys :)
 

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Do not agree at all ... I think that shows that the vendor has some empathy for their customers situation, and wishes to help them out if possible, in spite of the potential risk to the vendor... but to each his own. Paypal has no problem processing payments for Ebay e cigarette vendors, that should tell you something.

Yea im with you on that! The fact that a vendor would go out of their way to make it possible for me to order something in the situation I was in makes me feel like they want to help their customers!
 

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Can i ask why? And the only reason I did was bc i did not have a debit card (lost my wallet) at that time, so i was only able to work with my paypal. On another note, just thought i would throw it out there, if anyone ever needs to use paypal for vape supplies, you should try contacting a company directly. I spoke with serveral online stores who dont accept paypal, that offered to do a special order through paypal with me

Fully agreed. I use Paypal to buy e-cig stuff all the time from no-nonsense vendors. Usually not on ebay, tho. Actually, I don't consider a vendor very professional if they don't use Paypal. I'm not leaving my CC info in some shoddy form on every site I want to buy something from. Either it's Paypal, some other proper payment system, or no purchase.

Is this some US Paypal policy? Most European vendors seem to use Paypal, while most US vendors I've tried to order from wants me to fill out some shoddy homebrew "Gimme all your CC info here"-form. I've always wondered why... Not good business practice in my books. Hope I don't offend anyone. Not at all a anti-US kind of thing. Love you guys :)

Yes, it is a US policy, because it does not apply to China e cigarette vendors either. But again, no problem using Paypal on Ebay for US vendors, which of course makes zero sense!

I am with you, I do not like inputting cc information into a website. If I have to go that route, then I use a visa gift card.
 
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