Crazy eBay story

[jingram058]

I have never just not received something mailed to me. Likewise, I have never sent something out that was not received. However, I have received things with obvious signs of tampering. Thus, I cannot help but wonder why the Post Office, UPS, FedEx, eBay and their "authentication service" cannot be coerced in some way into tightening up their own internal quality control. Once something is bar coded, accepted and tracking number assigned, why cannot their be another layer of accountability incorporated? Perhaps QC checks at every stop, and if the item shows any sign of tampering, it gets removed from the system, immediately, at that point in the process. Obviously, that level of due diligence and attention to detail is not in place at this time. Just as obviously, this level of service would cost, so assign this to high-dollar items, which are insured anyway, at whatever value, $1000? $2500? This would eliminate these items from going missing, lost or stolen, in my opinion, and would indicate that the culprit is their own employee, and who that employee is, airtight.

[rjackson44]

Steve can you give us the link to this card ?.

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by jingram058

I have never just not received something mailed to me. Likewise, I have never sent something out that was not received. However, I have received things with obvious signs of tampering. Thus, I cannot help but wonder why the Post Office, UPS, FedEx, eBay and their "authentication service" cannot be coerced in some way into tightening up their own internal quality control. Once something is bar coded, accepted and tracking number assigned, why cannot their be another layer of accountability incorporated? Perhaps QC checks at every stop, and if the item shows any sign of tampering, it gets removed from the system, immediately, at that point in the process. Obviously, that level of due diligence and attention to detail is not in place at this time. Just as obviously, this level of service would cost, so assign this to high-dollar items, which are insured anyway, at whatever value, $1000? $2500? This would eliminate these items from going missing, lost or stolen, in my opinion, and would indicate that the culprit is their own employee, and who that employee is, airtight.

This is a USPS issue, along with a million others, and it's anybody's guess why they can't get fixed.

Authentication items do get mailed to ebay under a select service level, but I couldn't tell you whether that makes any difference as far as if that increases their likelihood to get delivered.

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[gonefishin]

What a mess. Maybe it ends up like a fraudulent charge to your credit card and the company (in the case Ebay), just writes it off as a loss. Pathetic.

Something I didn't know. Last year I sold a card on Ebay for 8K. Something I don't do every day, but I learned a little. The purchaser was in Japan - this was the only time I have sold a listing overseas, but made an exception in this case. When I went to purchase insurance, I had to purchase from USPS because of the $ limits. USPS was the highest at $5K, but still I mailed the card underinsured which I wasn't really comfortable with. The card ended up being mailed to the PWCC vault, the first time I had done that also. I didn't receive feedback until the purchaser received a picture of the card being received. All in all, it worked out well. However, I was still uneasy the entire time.

In your case - someone takes a loss - AND - someone committed a felony.

[Pat R]

Well after a little research the seller of the card has a business that specializes in "large scale asset recovery and liquidation retail."

[rjackson44]

Where is the link to this transaction

[Exhibitman]

I am troubled by the fact that your account was frozen. My understanding was that once it got to KY and eBay had it, that was the end of the risk for seller liability for a lost item. One more reason to drain the eBay seller account as soon as funds are there.