Re: Supskylesup THUMBS DOWN!!!
This kind of thing happens all the time, I've been buying and selling stuff for and from my cars for many years and I find all too often there are a few guys that treat private sellers like they were some franchise.
However I would PM someone if things were going to take longer than expected but I've learned not to make promises on the EXACT day I am going to ship something because crap like this happens...
There are two things wrong here, first this Thread, shouldn't have ever been posted and makes the buyer look bad. A PM should have been sent, not an email. My emails sometimes wind up in the spam folder or never even show up, email servers are not reliable.
Second is that Kyle should never have promised an exact date that it would have been shipped or at least given a heads up that he missed that date that was agreed upon. It's usually good to allow the Seller a week to ship, a good rule of thumb is to tell the buyer "gimme a week to get it out to you" which is fair.
If your like me each day is unpredictable just like most with EXTREMELY BUSY AND TIME CONSUMING CAREERS that are NOT gonna let that get in the way of persuing their hobby so things will be listed but it's not like it's sitting boxed up on a shelf ready to drop ship the next day.
In this day and age life is BUSY for most than it was to some 20, 30, 40 years ago so adapt to the times... when I was your age stuff doesn't work anymore... as you will find with most corporations that will just replace you now if your talent is in the stone age... it's the way of the world now. I don't agree with it but it sucks and you have to deal with it.
I myself usually can only ship on Saturdays or if I can get off of work in time before the Post Office closes and that is a long shot with being a Project Engineer in the Medical Device buisness.
My Saturday's are UNPREDICTABLE as well since I have a girlfriend who's a Promotions Director for a large Radio Station and ususally has free tickets or some event or weekend getaway come up at the last minute.
So as a rule of thumb I ship small stuff within one week of getting payment and sometimes will take 10 days if a Saturday happens to get overtaken and someone buys something on a Monday.
When I buy stuff I never PM the guy asking where it is, If the guy isn't a deadbeat then fine, I will give them a few weeks, I don't care. It's a car that is driven for fun, not some daily driver for work or a kidney...
I myself will take 2 to sometimes 3 weeks to ship something very large due to the fact that I have to go and find or construct a box and find the time in my busy life to drive 40 minutes one way to a FedEX or Greyhound location and drop it off. I've been hosed on shipping, gas and lost personal time because of the dam place being closed when they should have been open, the package turns out to be $161 instead of $65 as expected due to weight or being a c**t hair off in dimesions and having to rebox it... or something along those lines. And ususally wind up getting pissed off when the guy is sending PM's every other day for a tracking number, it will get there relax. Boxing and shipping doesn't happen as quickly as clicking SEND on a payment button and shouldn't be treated as such.
My $0.02
