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My wife has something similar going on now. We shipped a package via Priority from Orlando to Portland, OR and tracking showed it out for delivery on November 28 and then the next status that night said, “Delivery status not updated” and eBay still shows it not delivered.
I received no reply to two emails to local post office manager and they did not answer their phones.
We contacted the customer to let her know. She is in China and the shipping address in Portland looks like a freight forward company. We asked the customer to open a case for item not received but she has not done anything in the past week. We want to handle all actions through eBay.
Any ideas we haven’t done yet? Do we file a case with USPS as a lost item?
Thanks
I have finally started listing a bunch of items again and more items seem to be selling.
One of my profitable sales was someone in California bought two of my 1970’s canvas newspaper delivery bags I used when I was a teenager in Oklahoma City. They had been hanging up in my parent’s garage for about 40 years and I brought them home on one of my visits back to see my family. I finally listed them for $70 each and got offers of $50 each in just a few hours. I wasted no time in accepting those offers. I could not get the buyer to tell me why they purchased old newspaper delivery bags; I wonder if someone from a prop shop bought them.
It has been a week and I never got a message from eBay alerting me that an item I was watching had an active offer on it. I guess it was just a weird coincidence that something with a few watchers sold soon after I had my wife make a test offer to see if this urban myth is reality.
Thank you to My Cottage for helping me test this out.
I decided to order an advertisement from one of the big sellers and see how they package it. I found an ad for a company that has the same name as my last name – Henke. I bought a Herpa miniature delivery truck that features a company in Germany with my last name.
Thanks for the feedback. I got several old magazines for free at a library sale and some others for $0.25 each at a church sale. I may try a few to see if any sell.
Ryanne,
I have always been able to sort by watchers, both on my laptop or the iPhone app, even before I had a store.
MyCottage, of course it would not be accepted. We are leaving mine up for the 48 hrs and letting it expire. I put in obviously low offers and I am doing the experiment for her. Here are a couple of listings:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321797155659
http://www.ebay.com/itm/322565215062Thanks for helping with the test. It will be interesting to see if I do get a message from eBay or not. If I do I will post it in the forum.
I wanted to chime in on what Brian and MyCottage were discussing about whether buyers who are watching an item get a message from eBay when the item receives a best offer. I decided to do a test, although I would need an additional person to do a full test to see if a message was sent by eBay.
My wife and I both have eBay accounts and we both sell. I have a basic store and she has about 50 items listed. I made some test best offers on some of her listings that had several watchers and she did the same to several of my listings with watchers. About 3 hrs later one of the items she made an offer on was purchased by someone else for full price. This item is not a commodity item and is more a one of a kind type and had been listed quite awhile.
Based on this sale I think there may be some validity to the claim that eBay sends messages to watchers when an item receives a best offer. To further test this claim I would need an outside party to make an offer on one of my wife’s listings I am watching. That way I could see if eBay sends me a message.
If someone would like to help with the experiment, let me know and I can provide a link to a couple of her listings that I am watching.
