They were selling some pretty rare cels from Samurai Troopers that I was interested in, but their prices were pretty high. I originally contacted them to ask if they could accept partial payments but I received no response for well over a week, maybe more. Their listings had an auction length of a month long as opposed to the typical 1 week time limit. So, I still had a long time to think it over until the auction ended.
Eventually the user contacted me and said that partial payments would be fine and so I went ahead and put in a bid for the full amount, which I would pay in two installments. Later I thought that I could send the whole payment at once, and so I did via Paypal. With auction won and paid for I heard little from the seller in 2 weeks. I again contacted the seller to ask whether or not the item has been shipped (in the auction description it says that shipments are usually sent out within 2-3 days). I again heard nothing from the seller. The following day I wrote again, and being a little to the point, I told them that I would continue to write until I heard a response and would be contacting eBay should they continue to ignore my messages.
Quickly after that I received a response that basically said that they were busy working 12 hour shifts and being mom, which I can entirely understand since my schedule, too, can be quite crazy. They also said that they would check out the status of this auction since they didn't remember receiving the payment. o_O
Two days later, I received another reply that said they were called into work for the past 3 days and have not been able to send the shipment out. They said that eBay/Paypal should have sent me a tracking/shipping number, noting that they were not sure how eBay/Paypal did that.
What struck me here was that...
1.) Typically you aren't given a tracking number until AFTER it's been shipped, right? You can't logically track something that has not yet been shipped.
2.) This user has more than 2000 feedback messages, 100% of them positive. I'm curious how someone could wrack up this number of positive feedback and still not know how eBay or Paypal automatically sends messages to buyers. Of course, this is assuming this user has ever been a seller before and not simply a buyer all the time.
3.) They said nothing about whether or not my Paypal payment actually went through when they didn't remember receiving it in the first place. lol
So now I am still waiting to hear when this item has been shipped. I'm getting more and more afraid as time goes by. If anyone has dealt with this user before, I'd love to hear how your experience was. When all the feedback is positive and seems to send things out quickly, I'm a bit worried. Not that life can't change and make things difficult, but...
