Ebay; think it's time to call it quits
In the last 3 months 3 of the 6 items I have purchased has not arrived. In my entire ebay experience over the last 15 years I have only had a total of 5 items (including these 3) not arrive. All 3 were items that came from overseas. So I get that they have gone through a lot of hands. I find that many overseas sellers have been posting to be patient as sometimes things take longer (which is true, sometimes they do take longer and sometimes beyond the time to leave feedback or start resolution) and resolve with them before leaving feedback (as negative feedback results in higher fees). Now of the 5 items that have gone MIA, 3 of the sellers have resolved the situations to my satisfaction, but the last 2 have left a bad taste in my mouth. And then I bring myself to the questions........Well what do I expect? Good customer service? Is it reasonable to expect that all sellers on ebay are going to endeavor to give good customer service? My items go through a lot of hands, and who's accountable for the missing items anyhow? The sellers? Me, for not enhanced shipping with tracking? Do I want to pay those kind of additional fees? I know that Ebay has tools to resolve the matters, but it just isn't fitting well with how my international purchases go. And finally, I have to acknowledge that over the 15 years, and the evolution of Ebay, I have been groomed as a consumer to trust beyond what used to be reasonable about mail order items. But something seems to be changing, and well I am just not onboard.
I'm not sure how well I will do abstaining from ebay, I have relied on ebay to find obscure and hard to find items, as well as to find great deals on items that have highly inflated prices.