I recently bought a 1990 super soaker 100, I've wanted one since I was a kid, and now I have two boys of my own, I look for these when they come up on eBay, they are rare these days as most were broken or simply thrown out over the years, however they are far superior to anything that bears the nameplate these days, anyway the super soaker was around $29 U.S. Plus $72 U.S. For postage under the GSP!! Now if I didn't want this item so badly, I wouldn't have forked over that amount of cash, but seeing as I couldn't find any for sale locally (been looking for years) I finally grabbed this item and reluctantly paid the ridiculous GSP postage fees, as I watched the item through the eBay tracking part of the app, I was shocked to see it working its way in the opposit direction to where I live! I'm on the east coast of Australia and the item was on the west coast of America, the item traveled across USA stopping everywhere along the way and finally after 11 days it stopped in Erlanger Kentucky, and there it stayed for another 4 days before departing for international destination, as the days went past, it didn't appear to move, I contacted eBay and after being transferred several times, I finally got some information, the item had made it to Australia and had been handed over to WNdirect, however the reference number showed no tracking events, so anyway after a few more days, eBay tracking updated and gave me a new tracking number link, that when clicked, took me to the WNdirect tracking page, it showed that item was last seen passing through customs and provided another link that when clicked took me to the Australia post parcel tracking page, it had issued itself yet another tracking number and it was automatically entered into the search field on the auspost page, however it shows invalid tracking ID. The estimated arrival date was Saturday the 13th of February, on the 12th (Friday) I waited for the local postie to arrive and low and behold, no parcel slip. I rang eBay and explained that in Australia the mail man doesn't deliver on the weekends, and enquired if I could open an item not received case as I knew 100% it wouldn't come on Saturday, she told me I had to wait till Saturday anyway, so I did, I rang eBay on Saturday and explained that the service I paid SO much for had failed to deliver the item on time, she told me that I had to ring back on Sunday the 14th as the system wouldn't allow her to file a claim (I guess the system still thought my item might turn up before midnight Saturday) face palm..I rang and emailed Sunday and shortly after I got off the phone, I received an email from eBay stating they had contacted the seller and asked him for a refund, and that he had 48 hours to reply, and to check the resolution centre for updates on the case. WELL I couldn't believe what I was reading, I wrote them a massive email asking them why on earth would the seller have to be out of pocket? He obviously did his part and got the item to Kentucky PBI successfully. Why shouldn't he be covered as a seller using the aweful GSP? I demanded a refund from ebays pocket for both the item and the outrageous postage! I received PayPal notification that both the item and the postage have now been refunded, however eBay failed to answer the specific questions as to why the seller should have been involved in a GSP item that was t received. Anyway Ive had to buy another super soaker from the USA and, you guessed it, item is shipped via GSP 😞 I'm really hoping this one arrives on time! Heck, for all I know the first one I ordered and have been refunded might even still turn up! In which case I will be thanking eBay for my free super soaker - I will also be straight onto eBay if the second one doesn't arrive on time and seeking a refund for that too! Hope they Learn a lesson by having to refund me every time a GSP item doesn't get here on time and do something to improve the program, or better yet, scrap it all together - and before anyone suggests messaging the seller and asking them to send direct, I've done this many times and it seems Americans can't be bothered to opt out, or post overseas
Will let you all know if either of the super soakers arrive
