eBay/marketplace deals gone wrong

[Evelien]

@Kim, taking the refund and looking elsewhere isn't very appealing, she was selling the doll for 50% of the price asked by other sellers. Plus, I'm sure the doll will arrive soon and I couldn't live with myself if I'd get the doll for free.

Hehe packages getting lost can sometimes be funny, too... I have only lost two packages and both of them came from shops, not from sellers on eBay. (But they both arrived eventually, after a LONG time.)

One time I bought a pair of jeans from a British shop for tall ladies and after like 6 weeks they still hadn't turned up, so I called them and they sent me a second pair for free... Within about 10 days BOTH pairs of jeans arrived on the same day, like 10 minutes after each other..! LOL!

The second time I'd ordered a poster from a British shop and the same thing happened really, I called them because it hadn't arrived and they sent me a new one. In the end both posters arrived... the first one being all torn and having stamps on the packaging, apparently it had been sent off to Nouvelle Caledonie, an island between New Zealand and Australia haha..! No wonder it took so long to get to me...

The only time I REALLY lost a package, was when I sold a book to someone and it never arrived, so I had to make a refund. To this day I wonder what happened to it. I sold a lot of books back then, perhaps I wrote the wrong address or something... I'll never know.

[Greyhaunt]

Evelien - personally I would have taken the refund as a sign that either she does not have the product to give your or that she is having some sort of other problem and simply can't deal with providing anyone a product right now. I definitely would not have sent her the money and tried for another since I would say the first package that "went missing" was probably never shipped at all.

Get a refund through paypal and buy from a more reputable and steady dealer.

Landwhale: if they sent it surface as opposed to airmail, you bet, it could take that long. EMS shouldn't, but unless you know exactly what service they used who knows.

And I join the "potentially burned" club myself. Dropped $130 to a seller with good feedback on DoA for some Bygg hooves. Supposedly shipped from Singapore a month ago and I have nothing - not even an EMS number. So yea, I'm not a very happy camper either

[Evelien]

Evelien - personally I would have taken the refund as a sign that either she does not have the product to give your or that she is having some sort of other problem and simply can't deal with providing anyone a product right now. I definitely would not have sent her the money and tried for another since I would say the first package that "went missing" was probably never shipped at all.

Get a refund through paypal and buy from a more reputable and steady dealer.

At first, I did take the refund as a sign of either of the things you mentioned... But it turned out to be a misunderstanding, she didn't check the shipping date (May 9) and only the date I made my payment (somewhere early in April) and thought the package had been on its way that long, so she decided to give a refund. It's only been on its way twenty days and in her positive feedback many people complain about the slow shipping... call me crazy but it still feels right to me.

Besides, I feel confident that she'll give me a refund if the package really doesn't turn up.

-edit- hey, I see you just edited, that sucks big time . Can't you contact her in any way..? Is she still active on DoA?

[DollyKim]

A much lower than everyone else price is a major red flag with just about anything. Now I did get my Action Man Lifeguard uniform cheap but it was in need of some major TLC and the seller had no idea what it was and didn't bother to look beyond the name on the tag. In general have an idea what he going rate for something is and prepare to pay for it.

I've bought a lot of plastic crack in my time and now I just get it through a shop that offers discounts, they don't charge until they ship, take payment in yen so you get a fair exchange rate,the cartons are sealed so you have a fair chance at a secret item, and they offer a choice of shipping services. Prices can fluctuate but over all it evens out and I know they haven't jacked up shipping.

[Evelien]

The price she asked is actually the normal price with a little bit of discount, but the only other seller out there is asking an enormous amount.

My only other option would be pullipstyle.com if this one fails, but their shipping is quite high.

[1/6andtinylover]

I guess there are lots of jack up priced dolliehs out there....like selling them for twice the price as you would when you just bought them from the "official' website. (has seen places where they offer Pullip Withered for over $100 when you can get them for about $70 on the official website) But if one lives in a place where they don't have local retailers, as Evelien said in one of her posts...."Hello extra $10+ shipping" XP

And if the initial price seems cheap, the shipping is like o_O. (buycheapr or places like that....) I once saw someone on eBay selling a Blythe for $.01 and of course, the shipping was like $380 or something.

[landwhale]

Greyhaunt, thanks for the info. That makes me feel better.

Evelien, I paid $235 all together which is the same price as a new one from JS without shipping. According to the seller she has never been played with and comes with two extra heads. She didn't have any feedback when I bought from her. It was a new account. Most ppl say don't buy from new accounts but I have done this before and not had a problem. Everyone has to start somewhere right?

[Evelien]

Landwhale, I hope it gets sorted out, that's a lot of money :-\

But if one lives in a place where they don't have local retailers, as Evelien said in one of her posts...."Hello extra $10+ shipping" XP

Haha exactly. Unfortunately the stuff I'm interested in can only be bought in America and Asia... some European sellers have the stuff for insane prices, which makes it cheaper to look elsewhere still.

[DollyKim]

Right. I got my loose Jude Law for $30, MIB awful, from an account that had been inactive for a long time. He had good feedback and a history of selling odds and ends so I took a chance. People bought off me when I first started, I had great seller feedback with a history of doll books and stuff. With all the Ebay and Pay Pal protection you're in okay hands, if you aren't sure about the seller yet buy something low priced at first.

[Evelien]

It'll always be a risk... a person who once was a great seller may be going through a rough patch and not keeping up like they used to. You never know.