Unresponsive sellers

[michellebartley]

Have emailed a couple of sellers of late just to enquire about shipping costs and dont receive a reply.
Then have to resend the message and hopefully get a response 2nd time round.

[lyndal1838]

What is the question Michelle?

All that says is that some sellers are slack or the ebay message system is glitchy and the sellers have not received your first message.

[davidc4430]

maybe they feel the shipping costs are allready in their listings so no need to reply.

[Anonymous]

If,remembering not everyone is at their computer every day,if have given them enough time to reply and if their listing does not already state postage costs,why not just buy from someone else?

[michellebartley]

Yes Lyndal possible that there is a glitch somewhere?
Ship cost not supplied. Have waited up to 3 days also for a reply, gave up, then sent another message. One of the items I want is only available to buy from that particular seller.

[davidc4430]

might be best to avoid sellers who dont communicate even if they are the only ones with an item you cant live without.

what is the item just out of curiosity?

[sarahs_preloved_booksnbits · Accepted solution]

If the items are being mailed from overseas - perhaps the cost is ridiculous and they don't reply because they believe you will lose interest once you see the price.  As a seller, I know that I have had a person from Ukraine ask about postage costs and the postage cost was significantly greater than the item price .  Although it is still good manners to reply......

[*tippy*toes*]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

might be best to avoid sellers who dont communicate even if they are the only ones with an item you cant live without.

what is the item just out of curiosity?

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Probably some type of rodent food. She screams broke then spends obscene amounts of money on importing rodent food from overseas. I think it has something to do with the packaging being more shiny than the locally sold stuff. Shiny packaging means better quality, of course.

[davidc4430]

i doubt she is able to buy/import any pet food from outside australia. its against the law to bring anything into australia that might bring disease with it.

i know this as i had a pet turtle which i tried to import floating food sticks for from the usa, same exact food you could buy here but in a large 1kg box instead of little 250gram tubs.

i successfully imported a couple of boxes before getting caught by customs and getting a very angry letter letting me know my food stuff was an illeagle import and would be destroyed unless i paid to have it returned to sender.

if michelle has been attempting to import pet food the sniffer dogs would catch her pretty quickly and put a stop to it.

once you get caught you find anything you import suddenly is being regularly opened and inspected.

my imports of pretty much everything were getting opened almost every time.

i stopped trying to import anything food related after loosing about $50 with that first time getting caught.

[lyndal1838]

David, Michelle has been very successfully buying pet food from overseas for some time now. 

Most of her problems seem to stem from her impatience at the time her parcels take to arrive.

I suggest you read some of the threads she has started in the last year or so.....some of them are very good entertainment.