Another sad shipping story

[Superduper]

Mono. When a claim is filed with UPS, they will call you to make an appointment to come inspect the box, the contents, and the packaging. It's is NOT easy to get UPS to approve a claim unless it was packaged according to their guidelines and you need a law degee to ensure 100% complete compliance. That is the extent of your contact and relationship with UPS as a buyer. YOU cooperate to get the seller a claims approval. UPS will not communicate with you except to process the claim and they state very clearly after getting the info they want, that you need to communicate with the seller.

They won't tell you the claims result, nor tell you how much the claim was for. Their client is the seller, not you. You are merely there to facilitate the claim.

As for seller's giving you a partial refund, UPS doesn't care about any of that.

BTW, exactly because claims only protects the seller, ebay removed the insurance option. If seller is concerned with loss/theft/damge, then it's on the seller 100%. Pack well, and Insure. Not buyer's problem. Buyer pays and should get the item, damage free. Ebay's policy. Didn't like the policy at first, but as a frequent buyer, I can see how it goes both ways. Bad sellers have really shrunk since.

 

[Johnny]

If by chance you end up keeping it, and part it out to recuperate $$$ i would LOVE to buy the 2 front speaker grills and 1 antenna...i would make it worth your while $$$...i would maybe even buy other spare parts also

-gsbadbmr

Gordie the box is salvageable and could be saved, if the seller had offered to refund some of the cost I would have considered keeping it. Instead she flipped out so I have no choice but to send it back if and when eBay gives me the green light. If circumnstances work out for parts I will keep you in mind.

Not that I would do it..... but take a junk boomber that is not worth nothing and bust it up with a sledgehammer and send it back :annoyed:

That will start a war

 

[bill]

man when i used to work in shipping and receiving we had a company and all they did was chase down sellers that shipped damaged goods.
everything from computers to skids of chemicals would come to us that had been through the hands of careless packers and or couriers.
i also learned never to sign for anything that was shipped damaged not even make a note on the slip saying that it was damaged.
i know in most cases a signature is not involved with boombox shipments.
i think that some of the people should begin to only accept boxes from ebay if the seller will ship with a signature required.
i mean if it comes to you thrashed and that means you open the box with the driver still there,if he does not like it tell him to go to hell.
if its damaged do not sign for it.
that means your item was never recieved, i mean if you bought something that was in great shape and you get something broken its not what you paid for right out of the gate.
i dont know how many people here work for a company that has a shipping recieving dept.
i know when i did if i did order something i would get it shipped to my work address for the exact purpose of having the company who went after idiots like this.
my company was fine with us doing that.
the guy we had doing this for us was extremely good at his job and in the end as long as you didnt sign for the goods you got you money back.
so many people get ripped off by people who are scammers or just lazy right out of the gate.
i can see why people want to get certain boxes and need to get them off ebay .
it really scorches me when stuff like this happens.
i mean people like this have such a low character .
a swindler always throws in a long winded freaking story about stuff as well.
i mean trying to win sympathy of someone you just ripped off is a classic trick of the conartist.

 

[oldskool69]

WTF MAN?!?!? This is the biggest load of crap I've heard in shipping? What is wrong with people? I don't know what else I could say that hasn't been said Don. I am so srry about this happening to you man and I hope you get her crazy ass jammed up for this sorry action.

 

[Ken]

Attorney?

Internet fraud?

Can you give me this whack-jobs number? Maybe I could hire her lawyer...

Ken

 

[MONOLITHIC]

 

[Ken]

 

[Superduper]

I hope you are always on my side.

HELL KNOWS NO FURY LIKE GSBADBMR SCORNED.

 

[jameswp67]

True Dat! Don't mess with King Conion! His sword is a computer! Sorry to hear about your situationMS84, some people are just afraid of taking responsibility for their actions(or lack thereof). I have had some heartbreaks in transit, a Panny RXC-100 in black destroyed, and Crown 980 also, and most lately a Bose AW-1. All arrived damaged significantly...

The worst situation was a Panasonic RX-7200 I sold that the buyer changed his mind, said it did not receive radio stations(it was a Japanese radio which I explained clearly), so paypal refunded him the money and he sent it back without my packaging so it arrived in pieces, so I gave him a refund and received a pile of plastic. It took 4 months and many phonecalls, but I eventually got my money back from paypal who insisted I mail it to their warehouse in Texas!

You can never tell what will happen in Transport, I sent my favorite M70 to a member here who bought it for his brother and it was packed great, but still arrived not working for some reason!

All we can do is pack extra well, request the same, and hope! We are shipping 30 year old electronics around the world with makeshift shipping--its a risky endeavour, but we do it because we love it!

Good luck with this situation Masterblaster, try and make a partial refund deal, it saves you shipping, and might save the radio from a landfill...

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Gordie I think it's best I don't piss you off to severely.

James I hear you, **** happens even with good intentions and I understand that. It's when people don't take care of business then try to blame it on you that I have a real problem and in that's what happened here. Sorry to hear about your 7200 that's just wrong, some people have no problem sticking it to others for their bad choices, glad to hear you got compenstated.

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Well I just received an email from eBay, the seller is having eBay handle the case. They are supposed to give an answer within 48 hours so we'll see. I wonder what kind of BS she tried to tell them, all of her bizarre emails to me were sent through eBay so they can read everything.

 

[Johnny]

I will say the broken radio will make it back to ebay through the purchaser of UPS's auction!

A couple I had to arrive damaged did!

I guess UPS sells them in lots at a auction where people buy damaged goods.

Too bad they wouldn't sell back to me, I put all my info on the box and what I was willing to pay... no response... then saw it on ebay a month later!

 

[MasterBlaster84]

I still think that sending the bolt box back to UPS or to the seller will be the end of the bolts box's life

Gordie and it hurts to do it but the seller wanted nothing to do with taking care of her very poor handling of the auction. I've wanted this box for years and now this is the memory I'll have of it. Maybe she'll relist it if eBay has me send it back but she went off kind of like our very good buddy Michael Garret so who knows what she'll do.

 

[redbenjoe]

don --if you do end up keeping the box
(lots of ahole sellers like that -- never want their crap back)

and then dont want to fix it --
take gordie up on his parts offers -

and - then i could buy some bolts box stuff off you also--

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Ira, If she would have given me a decent partial refund I was willing to keep it however she flipped out so I had no choice but to file with eBay. According to the process eBay won't issue the refund until I send them the tracking number for the boombox going back. The boombox is repairable so there is no need to part it out yet but depending on what happens that's always an option.

 

[redbenjoe]

ok --i get it

 

[MasterBlaster84]

ok --i get it

You know I would hook you guys up if I could but right now I want to make sure she doesn't get away with what she did to that boombox and to me.

 

[Superduper]

Don. I have a plan. You ship that back to her. When she gets it and tries to relist it, we will all hold off completely and entirely but every member here sends her an offer to buy, for like $20. Pretty soon, she will think that it's worth $20. Whoever wins it will ship it back to YOU! And in the end, you'll get the last laugh!

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Don. I have a plan. You ship that back to her. When she gets it and tries to relist it, we will all hold off completely and entirely but every member here sends her an offer to buy, for like $20. Pretty soon, she will think that it's worth $20. Whoever wins it will ship it back to YOU! And in the end, you'll get the last laugh!

I like your thinking norm.

 

[Johnny]

Don. I have a plan. You ship that back to her. When she gets it and tries to relist it, we will all hold off completely and entirely but every member here sends her an offer to buy, for like $20. Pretty soon, she will think that it's worth $20. Whoever wins it will ship it back to YOU! And in the end, you'll get the last laugh!

NOT ME!!!!!

I'm only going in at $15.00!!!!