Shipping stuff. Things you notice when you do them in batches.

[Davexxxx]

Early morning on 6/16, I ordered a center screen protector, bed mat, tonneau, mud flaps and floor mats. All from different suppliers, (known to this forum), all at the default cheapest rate of shipping.

The order confirmation emails happened more or less immediately, as you'd expect.

All but 2, sent shipping notices on the same day. One came the next.

One claims it will be here today but I don't believe it. The log, if it is up to date, puts it too far away for local delivery. The rest are to come tomorrow.

Except one. Still haven't gotten the shipping notice.

Its not that I'm an on line ordering virgin but a couple things seem different from what I know as normal.

They all wanted me to buy insurance and claimed without it, they wouldn't be responsible for the condition, or it even getting to me. Seems pretty scamy to me and I did not take the bait.

Another thing that seems new, is that all but the one order from Amazon, charged my account before shipment and separately, one, appears to have charged it twice, with no email notification of the duplicate order.

Have some new laws taken affect in the shipping business that I'm not aware of?

If I contract with you to send me something new, I expect it to get to me, in new condition and not have to pay extra to do that.

And pending charges are fine but to finalize payment prior to shipping, just kinda seems off.

Don't really want to name names, unless and until things really go sideways and truth be told, I may not have noticed it, if not ordered in a bunch.

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[Facemelter]

After many dealings online years ago within the paintball community, I learned quite a bit.

I used to trade and sell paintball markers online all over the country. Some items being in the 1,800 dollar range in a box no bigger than a phone book. Ok maybe a late 90's phone book, the ones today are about a 1/8th of the size.

As far as I know, it is the SELLERS responsibility to cover the cost of the goods until it reaches the buyer. The buyer shouldn't have to cover the shipment because the contractual agreement of the sale has not completed till the buyer received whatever was paid for.

To even further drive this. The seller is the only one that can initiate an insurance claim on the item...

 

[SALEEN961]

I've ordered certain items like a set of wheels where I was told that the seller would not be responsible for any damage if I choose to ship the wheels in the manufacturers boxes with UPS/FedEx/USPS. If I paid the extra cost to have the wheels palatalized and shipped freight, the seller assumed all responsibility for any damage that occurred and that seemed reasonable to me. Many manufactures just don't package wheels well enough to ensure damage won't occur in shipping and I sure this policy was a response to past problems.

It might be better to only ever ship wheels via freight and raise prices in an effort to avoid unhappy customers, but it would be hard to advertise a competitive price if they did this.

 

[JJSnell]

So two things I can speak on ... neither are car\truck related but shipping related...

1. I bought a Multi Function printer through eBay during pandemic supply chain issues. None of my normal vendors had it in stock. Package "arrived" and my home office looks at the front door... <huh? nothing there>. Checked eBay, checked UPS and both said it was delivered. So I called UPS to confirm the address and they wouldnt tell me. I said, "I bought it and its coming to me, just tell me what address you have for tracking #1234abcd......" They refused. The "package" was delivered to a different address than mine, but correct on the shipping label. So the only thing that saved me from the $450 scam was the shipping info showed 0.47 ounces. No where near the 40lb printer it was. Guy on ebay had 100% positive feedback and right after he closed his account...

2. Just last week bought an 8port POE switch from Amazon cuz Amazon guarantees everything right? Port 2 was dead and port 3 only ran 10/100. They accepted my return but made me pay for shipping... so I have to pay to ship back a DOA item....? that was a new one. Had never seen that before and wont buy from them again.

Lastly, maybe shipping is changing because of all the meth-head porch pirates today? If you live in a liberal h*ll-hole like I do, (Wash State), stolen cars are driven in broad daylight with fake temporary placards and our police are not allowed to pull them over. If a criminal is caught, our state legislature implemented catch\release bail reform and they are out, literally hours later.

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