can sellers change the date paid or date posted

[shoppingbag*]

Many times I have bought things and noticed that the "PAID" date is often wrong (usually marked as one day before being posted) and usually several days after it was ACTUALLY paid and easily verified by my records.  Also, POSTED dates are often wrong.  Is it possible for Sellers to manipulate these dates?

[modestbods]

I also don't know what unmarking as 'paid' & remarking it does as regards showing the date paid. It may happen that there are times when sellers mark & unmark 'paid', and vice versa in their drop down menu, but it wouldn't be a very frequent occurrence at all, quite the opposite. And certainly not as frequent as the OP suggested it is for her....

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@shoppingbag* wrote:

Many times I have bought things and noticed that the "PAID" date is often wrong (usually marked as one day before being posted) and usually several days after it was ACTUALLY paid 

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Given the OP states the date appears "marked as one day before being posted and usually several days after it was ACTUALLY paid" my moneys still on it being an unverified Paypal account & thus eCheque's.

Also, if it were the seller doing it, it would still initially appear as marked when OP pays (which is automatic)... it would then have to disappear & reappear later (if the seller had then manually unmarked it and then marked it later).

[i-love-my-sheep]

Seems the OP has done the disappearing act. Probably didn't like hearing everyones views on the matter.

As a buyer, I'm not sure I've ever checked those things. I pay, the seller sends, I get what I've bought, everyone's happy.

[black*poppy]

My thoughts exactly Sheep

These forums are so good to get some inkling into how others (mean SOME buyers) think.

Totally alien to me.

[shoppingbag*]

You really don't know what you are talking about.

[cherry*135]

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@shoppingbag* wrote:

There sure are some strange replies on here.

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Yes, I think some forget these are help boards where you are supposed to give helpful replies, or perhaps not reply at all if you just want to leave smart comments.

I don't know about other sellers, I just mark as posted after the item has been taken to the Post Office.

[shoppingbag*]

Just tired of all the unhelpful rude people on here, can't be bothered wasting anymore time on you. Keep the rude remarks to yourselves.

[cherry*135]

lyndal wrote: When a seller processes the payment using the on line postage options it is always marked as posted when they print the labels. 

Is that in ebay records?

Tracking shows ( destinations removed):

24 Oct 2014 05:37 With Australia Post for delivery today

Thu 23 Oct 2014 16:50  Received by Australia Post

Thu 23 Oct 2014 04:49

Shipping information received by Australia Post

If I print a label on Saturday, it will show that date as shipping info received by AP and after I have lodged the parcel on Monday, it will show received by AP on Mon's date (actually posted then). 

[i-love-my-sheep]

I paid for some minerals I bought from China today and just received notification that they have been posted.....even though it's Saturday night.

When I looked at the order details, under shipping info it says "Shipping Info Received" which says to me that China Post has received the info, but it has not been handed over the counter yet. The bar along the top also only has Postage Info Received ticked.

Obviously it hasn't been posted yet. I would expect the shipping details to change once it's been handed over the counter and scanned.

Another shipment that I paid for 3 weeks ago has both the Postage Info Received and the In Transit box ticked. It also shows the actual posting date (when it was scanned) as being 2 days after it was marked as posted (I paid on a weekend).

I wonder if the OP's info in the transaction details page marries up with the tracking on the AP site? Could they be getting confused with shipping info received and the actual shipping date? If there is one particular item in question, or a particular period in time, could the OP live in a state that didn't have a public holiday at the start of the month and bought and paid for something from a state that did? Which would mean the item may have been scanned 4 days after it was actually marked as posted through eBay labelling or C&S?

Just throwing out scenarios that might explain discrepancies.

[shoppingbag*]

I don't even know what an eCheque is, I certainly have never paid this way, I only pay via Paypal out of my paypal account or bank account.

[shoppingbag*]

In answer to the remarks re " you have never looked". The first time I looked was because an item was overdue in arriving, so I checked as to when I had bought it and realized straight away that something was wrong, as I knew I hadn't bought it as recently as that. Checked the actual purchase records to find there was a discrepancy, and since have noticed it has happened on an off on other sales. I posted the original message more out of curiousity than anything else as someone else had mentioned to me that they were having the same thing happen. I am just astounded at the number of negative remarks it has provoked, but then, as usual there seem to be more negative replies than helpful ones to other peoples posts as well.