What I do mind are sellers that lie, and that has happened to me twice over the last few orders.
Here's what happens...
When you place an order, the seller is notified by Sportlots that they have an order to fill. The seller is to then pack the order, take it to the post office, and mark it as shipped. They have ten days to do this. According to Sportlots rules, if any order takes more than ten days to be shipped, the seller is booted off the site.
What has happened to me twice it that sellers are marking the orders as filled and shipped, so they meet the ten day deadline. But in truth the orders aren't shipped on the day marked. They are shipped much later.
I was given USPS shipping information that showed the shipping label was created on January 28, a week after the seller marked the cards as shipped. Even worse, the package just sat on the sellers desk until I contacted him. After that, it finally went to the post office on February 6. The liar seller marked as shipped on January 21 but didn't actually ship the card until February 6, well outside the ten day ship limit.
I had the same thing happen with an order for a Kris Bryant Highlight card.
The order was marked as shipped on February 4. But it wasn't.
The frustrating thing is that sellers can get away with this. There isn't a way to speak directly with anyone at Sportlots. The only way to contact them is through their message system.
You can leave feedback on the sellers, but I don't think that has any effect on them.
I'm not ready to give up on Sportlots, yet. There are plenty of honest seller that ship when they say they do. I just wish I could know ahead of time who they are.
Yeah, I've had that happen to me once on Sportlots, but three or four times on Ebay. It really irks me with Ebay when you contact the seller and they act like it's the USPS' fault, but then the very next day the package starts to track. Coincidence? I think not.
ReplyDeleteThere's a big difference between creating a shipping label and actually mailing the object. Argh.
Sorry you had to deal with this kind of thing. I don't think I've had any bad transactions with Sportlots, but it's annoying to hear other people have to deal with people like this. They need to have a better way to monitor their sellers. Customers should be able to contact Sportlots, show them that the seller has flat out lied, and then they should take action against them.
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