sjetrider
615 Freeriders are addicted to T1 madness.
- Location
- in the 615 (Nashville)
In all my time of buying and selling stuff here and elswhere online I have NEVER encountered this issue. Call me lucky but its true.
I sold some small parts to a guy on another site. I shipped them on 10/19/10 like 9am and I shipped just regular USPS like always. He is in CT. and a week later he says "hey bro, how did you ship my parts, I dont have them. Do you have a tracking# ". I replied USPS and told him I dont ship small parts with a tracking# but I do have a receipt showing the shipment to your city on that day and the shipping cost.
I said to give it some time assuming it will eventually hit his mailbox or return to me. Well, here we are a total of almost 3 weeks later and they havent hit me or him.
I have had packages come back but never one lost. What are the odds I wrote my own damn address wrong as well as his, NEAR NONE right?
So they disappeared into thin air. What do I do? I emailed him a copy of the receipt but I guess he could say "you coulda shipped to anyone in Hartford, CT." and I guess he could be correct.
Bottom line is I shipped them, am I responsible for them until they hit his door step or is my obligation fullfilled? Should I be paying to track $35 worth of items, these things weigh 6.8 oz total with the packaging and shipping was $2.24 and to track them will prolly double that. If I do that on every little shipment I would have to raise my pricing which defeats my initial purpose of getting parts to people CHEAPER. I am by no means getting rich off this stuff. Just figured why not get some deals and pass them on. Check out my listings, nothing is overpriced and most are underpriced, that was the objective here.
Any suggestions would help. I know what I need to do here but what about future. Track and raise pricing or just take my chances to keep cost low and hope this is isolated? Lets be honest, I could be getting taken here and in future if I opt. to cover the parts to everyones door step.
opinions needed.
Brian
I sold some small parts to a guy on another site. I shipped them on 10/19/10 like 9am and I shipped just regular USPS like always. He is in CT. and a week later he says "hey bro, how did you ship my parts, I dont have them. Do you have a tracking# ". I replied USPS and told him I dont ship small parts with a tracking# but I do have a receipt showing the shipment to your city on that day and the shipping cost.
I said to give it some time assuming it will eventually hit his mailbox or return to me. Well, here we are a total of almost 3 weeks later and they havent hit me or him.
I have had packages come back but never one lost. What are the odds I wrote my own damn address wrong as well as his, NEAR NONE right?
So they disappeared into thin air. What do I do? I emailed him a copy of the receipt but I guess he could say "you coulda shipped to anyone in Hartford, CT." and I guess he could be correct.
Bottom line is I shipped them, am I responsible for them until they hit his door step or is my obligation fullfilled? Should I be paying to track $35 worth of items, these things weigh 6.8 oz total with the packaging and shipping was $2.24 and to track them will prolly double that. If I do that on every little shipment I would have to raise my pricing which defeats my initial purpose of getting parts to people CHEAPER. I am by no means getting rich off this stuff. Just figured why not get some deals and pass them on. Check out my listings, nothing is overpriced and most are underpriced, that was the objective here.
Any suggestions would help. I know what I need to do here but what about future. Track and raise pricing or just take my chances to keep cost low and hope this is isolated? Lets be honest, I could be getting taken here and in future if I opt. to cover the parts to everyones door step.
opinions needed.
Brian
