eBay purchase weirdness

[fenchurch]

I've had an account at eBay since 1996, and have had only positive experiences so far... and this one may not wind up being bad, but it's the first time anything has ever gone wrong. I bought a large Tupperware tumbler and sandwich keeper (don't care about the sandwich keeper, but I really wanted the tumbler) a week or so ago. A package arrived from the seller today and right away there seemed to be something wrong. For one thing, the tumbler I bought is a huge 30 ounce one, and the package was a standard Priority Mail box, without a tell-tale bulge.

I just opened it up, and it's a Tupperware kid's cup and sandwich keeper... NOT what I bought, by a long shot. Now, I just checked out at the seller's site, and s/he's got several of these up for auction right now, so I suspect s/he just got my package mixed up with someone else. I've sent off an email asking about it and am now waiting to hear back... but this is the first time in ten years that I've ever had anything go even remotely wrong with an eBay purchase, so it's got me a bit nervous.

Comments

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Wow, you are the only person I know who's never had a problem. Friends of mine have had to go to the Postal Service and FBI to file fraud reports on sellers. Myself, I've been ripped off (granted, not for a lot, but still), been sent wrong items because the seller completely misrepresented them, had pottery items arrive in, like, a billion pieces because the sellers decided to wrap them in two small pieces of newspaper and nothing else, etc. ad infinitum. The only seller who actually refunded my money because of a bad transaction was a guy in Montreal; all the other American sellers told me in effect to go f**k myself, bad feedback or no.

I'll bet everything will come out all right for you, though, because you have Good Ebay Karma. ;)

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Heh! Well, now I'm starting to feel a bit silly about wringing my hands over this (virtually speaking). After all, even if I never hear from the seller again, I've at least got a fairly nice Tupperware product that is worth the money I sent. While it's not anything I would have normally purchased, it's new and decent enough that I can toss it in the Gift Drawer for a possible future gift-giving opportunity.

Sounds like I have been pretty lucky so far, though!