why does ebay feedback often close before a delivery has been made

[shatojak1]

With long delivery items Ebay feedback can close within the delivery period so if no delivery is made you cannot give bad feedback. This has happened once and the items were never delivered. It appears to be happening again. This practice appears to encourage and make it easy for bad sellers

[tazzieterror]

Cheers cobber! 🤙

[11dustyattic]

😂 how did that get past a bleep 

[tazzieterror]

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@11dustyattic wrote:

😂 how did that get past a bleep 

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No idea, but I'm glad that it did! 

As much as I might enjoy having the last word, I really feel that 4channel has earned that honour as the driving force behind this topic, and as such would like to pass your offer on to him.

4channel....take it away, mate....

[11dustyattic]

Found a bleep loophole 😎

[shatojak1]

The order where the goods never arrived was before Covid. The more recent different order had a delivery period of 4/5/20-23/6/20 so I still have hopes it will arrive one day. Perhaps that is effected by covid. They say they dispatched it 16/4/20 from China.

[tazzieterror]

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@shatojak1 wrote:

The order where the goods never arrived was before Covid. The more recent different order had a delivery period of 4/5/20-23/6/20 so I still have hopes it will arrive one day. Perhaps that is effected by covid. They say they dispatched it 16/4/20 from China.

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An item sent from China mid-April should pretty much have arrived by now, although two weeks beyond the estimated delivery range isn't that much of a stretch given the delays being experienced earlier in the year.

In the early days of COVID-related postage delays, there was an anecdotal report on here from someone who (from memory) had some kind of insight or connection to an AP sorting centre, and they were saying in AP prioritising domestic shipments, all the small packets and parcels sent from Asia were literally being piled up somewhere out of the way to be dealt with once things had quietened down.

I have no idea if it was true, but it sounded true enough the way it was described. And lot of sellers on here who source their items from China couldn't get replacement stock to sell for a very long time, and were losing out on sales because of it.

If your item does arrive in the coming weeks, please do report back and say so as it all helps to paint a picture of where things are at and informs the community and other buyers who come looking for answers later.

[padi*0409]

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@shatojak1 wrote:

The order where the goods never arrived was before Covid. The more recent different order had a delivery period of 4/5/20-23/6/20 so I still have hopes it will arrive one day. Perhaps that is effected by covid. They say they dispatched it 16/4/20 from China.

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I bought an item from Ukraine on 17 March and it finally arrived yesterday, another item from the same seller was sent 21 April and still hasn't arrived. I've been in contact with the seller and refunded his refund made to me for the first item.

Needless to say he didn't get feedback from me, but he was over the moon that the item had finally arrived. I suspect the messages from me were far more important to him than a coloured dot on his feedback tally 4channel.............

[4channel]

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Re: why does ebay feedback often close before a delivery has been made

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I bought an item from Ukraine on 17 March and it finally arrived yesterday, another item from the same seller was sent 21 April and still hasn't arrived. I've been in contact with the seller and refunded his refund made to me for the first item.

Needless to say he didn't get feedback from me, but he was over the moon that the item had finally arrived. I suspect the messages from me were far more important to him than a coloured dot on his feedback tally 4channel.............

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I'll take your bait padi*0409. Actually feedback may have been beneficial for this Ukrainian seller. many people are cautious about dealing with sellers in East Europe and former Soviet Union countries. A simple "Item arrived in Australia safe and sound" could go a long way for this seller. With the delays in shipping and as I mentioned, my item arrived only a few days off 2 months from a reputable US seller, people are uneasy about even buying from the US let alone countries that some have never even heard of.

Feedback is there for a reason.

[padi*0409]

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@4channel wrote:

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I'll take your bait padi*0409. Actually feedback may have been beneficial for this Ukrainian seller. many people are cautious about dealing with sellers in East Europe and former Soviet Union countries. A simple "Item arrived in Australia safe and sound" could go a long way for this seller. With the delays in shipping and as I mentioned, my item arrived only a few days off 2 months from a reputable US seller, people are uneasy about even buying from the US let alone countries that some have never even heard of.

Feedback is there for a reason.

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I doubt it, apart from one neutral they have perfect feedback and great DSR's. I have dealt with him before and will doubtless (along with other buyers) deal with him again. 

[dvd.horder]

very true