EBAY Rant!
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EBAY Rant!
Well I have to vent a little, let me start out by saying I try to shop local as much as I can but when the price difference is in the $100's for things like pipes I have to go with ebay. So on the morning of the 25th of Aug I bought a set of Martin Bros pipes on Ebay and paid for them, figured they would ship on the Friday and then I'd have them late the following week or at the latest today. Well they don't show today so I email to get a tracking number and the ebay company quickly sends the tracking, I look and I am floored!!! So I paid on the 25th, the seller didn't even send a pickup request until the 29th, and it wasn't into the post office until the 2nd, making it through the local sorting facility in NY TODAY!!! like WTF, when I am selling things on ebay or online I try to get things out asap, guys pay for this stuff and they want it, get that **** shipped. What burns me is I pay $66 for shipping and it takes 10+ days for it to even hit the post office. In the mean time I sell me SE slipons to a forum member, he pays me on the 30th, I ship on the 31st, and he emailed me to say he got them today. His shipping cost......$37 dollars. So now I am sitting not being able to ride cause I have no pipes, the weather for this week and weekend is high 20's celcious and no wind and I am sitting on my F'n *** because someone couldn't run my pipes down to the post office for $66. Needless to say I am very disapointed. I am crossing my fingers that some act of god gets these in my hand before the end of the day Friday. Sorry for the rant guys, I'd rather be riding!
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Did you purchase the pipes from a private seller on eBay or an eBay dealer?
There are tons of eBay dealers that don't stock anything. You buy it from them, they order it from the manufacturer, and then ship it to you when they receive it.
There are tons of eBay dealers that don't stock anything. You buy it from them, they order it from the manufacturer, and then ship it to you when they receive it.
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That is one of the downsides of Ebay. I think most vendors give themselves a full week to ship product. Doesn't hurt to send a little negative feedback - that seems to get a vendor's attention fairly quickly.
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Wait, you bought them on a Thursday & the seller had a UPS or USPS pickup for the following Monday. That's 2 working days. Sounds reasonable to me. If you needed them that fast you should have paid retail locally. And never sell your old stuff until you have the new items & have checked that they are not damaged & are the correct parts. You are overreacting a bit.
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Wait, you bought them on a Thursday & the seller had a UPS pickup for the following Monday. That's 2 working days. Sounds reasonable to me. If you needed them that fast you should have paid retail locally. And never sell your old stuff until you have the new items & have checked that they are not damaged & are the correct parts. You are overreacting a bit.
Did you look at that information before purchasing?
Last edited by parabellum_9x19; Sep 6, 2011 at 04:58 PM.
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Look at a calendar. That's 6 business days to get them shipped. You don't give anyone negative feedback because they were slow shipping but there is a place where you rate seller. Do it there.
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Wait, you bought them on a Thursday & the seller had a UPS or USPS pickup for the following Monday. That's 2 working days. Sounds reasonable to me. If you needed them that fast you should have paid retail locally. And never sell your old stuff until you have the new items & have checked that they are not damaged & are the correct parts. You are overreacting a bit.
The shipping disclaimer is as follows "Will usually ship within 2 business days of recieving payment" I like how they throw the "should" in there....maybe should read.."or it might take an entire week who knows" hey.
I know it's my bad for having to sit and wait now because I sold my old pipes, guess I just expected the same service to be provided to me as I provided to the person who bought my old pipes from me.
Nothing I can do but sit and wait now.
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Virtually nobody running a big business on ebay is going to ship the next day. All their ads I read said 5-9 day delivery to US address...Canada is more paperwork....and finally why the hell did you even remove your old exhaust from your bike, till you had your new exhaust...sounds like you f'ed up and want to blame it on someone else...lol