ashlandtrader
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:01:20 AM
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=usps-mrc-collectibles&sort=2&page=2&rows=25&since=-1
username usps-mrc-collectibles
Take a look and let me know what you all think.
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katiyana
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:13:12 AM
I'm going to have to watch that for the missing Pokemon cards that disappeared 6 months ago...
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ashlandtrader
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:15:43 AM
Exactly! Doesn't this give them more of a reason to "lose" packages?
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MrJim
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:17:10 AM
Well now we know where all those missing ebay shipments went.
Let me see, I sell an item on Ebay. Pay for insurance. It gets lost in the mail. The post office pays the claim. Then they find the package and auction it on Ebay. I win the auction for half of what I sold it for. I turn around and sell it on Ebay again. It gets lost in the mail .............
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Kellyrj32
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:26:51 AM
I just can't believe there shipping prices. I was looking at the dolls they listed, and they want over $20.00 to ship the darn things! It's nuts, but people are bidding on them!
Kelly
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/kellyrj32/
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misscandle
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:30:57 AM
I'm not sure what offends or amuses me more:
Their Positive Feedback that states "Fast Shipment" or "Speedy Delivery"
OR
Their Negative Feedback that states:
"Complaint: Although paid on 12/14/00, I have yet to receive this item. Awful cust. support!
Response: Item shipped 12/14/00. Buyer did not purchase insurance."
OR
Their stern scolding to the public that the reason these items are up for auction is because of our poor packing and address labeling skills.
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NeartheSea
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:32:37 AM
I look there everytime I get a chance, after a 'collectible' got lost, never arrived to the buyer. They sell in 'lots' too, so I check there. Interesting I put invoices in the packages too.
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cornelius5-07
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posted on January 26, 2001 12:31:59 PM
And they still need another penny.
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llama_lady
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posted on January 26, 2001 12:49:04 PM
I find it 'amusing' - not reading some of the descriptions that say box damaged from previous handling. Who the heck do they think handled it in the first place?!? 'gduh
I wonder who gets the proceeds from these sales? I know they didn't give their recent raise of stamp and shipping prices to their employees. They must be doing something right though (even though their shipping rates on some of the auctions are outrageous) because there are a lot of repeat buyers.
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kiki2
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posted on January 26, 2001 12:57:09 PM
This subject was brought up before. Be careful if you criticize too much. You will get accused of being jealous. 
I said then and I say again that I find it ridiculous. I just find it hard to believe that that much stuff goes unclaimed. I never mail anything without putting my return address on the package. I should keep an eye out to see if a magazine I won back in December which was lost shows up in their listings!
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tentwentytwo
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posted on January 26, 2001 01:07:11 PM
<<< misscandle
posted on January 26, 2001 11:30:57 AM new
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I'm not sure what offends or amuses me more:
Their Positive Feedback that states "Fast Shipment" or "Speedy Delivery"
OR
Their Negative Feedback that states:
"Complaint: Although paid on 12/14/00, I have yet to receive this item. Awful cust. support!
Response: Item shipped 12/14/00. Buyer did not purchase insurance."
>>>
I am still rolling about that feedback response... Let me get this straight. The USPS claims that the vast majority of items lost in the mail are lost because of shoddy labeling and packaging by the sender. But they THEMSELVES ship something in their own system and it gets lost... SOOO, their response to this is "Neener Neener, ya didn't buy insurance so yer outta luck..." It couldn't be lost because they didn't pack it or label it properly THEMSELVES now, could it...
:~D
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marc923
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posted on January 26, 2001 01:30:23 PM
It's the probably just a username and not "THE POST OFFICE"
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goodwillhunter
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posted on January 26, 2001 01:50:38 PM
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!! Let's see, eBay makes money off of us, the Post Office makes money off of us. Now they have teamed up and gone into competition with us. This is the craziest thing I have ever heard. The more packages of ours the postal service "loses" the more they have to sell for themselves! THIS WHOLE THING STINKS!!!
Hoppin' Mad 
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Joanne
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posted on January 26, 2001 01:54:16 PM
I just took a look at the negs rec'd by the usps "everything else" ID. One person said in their neg that USPS was "evasive" when answering questions about the items in the auction... seller responded "We answered our questions to the best of our knowledge. We are not experts." The auction was for BANDANAS!!!! How much of an expert did they need to be to answer those questions???
They have one-line descriptions yet everything is sold "as-is" and they claim that "Every effort will be made to accurately describe all property offered for bid."
If a "regular" eBay seller conducted business the way the USPS appears to, I don't think they'd be selling very long!
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misscandle
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posted on January 26, 2001 02:02:33 PM
Marc: I know it sounds unbelievable, but it really is The Post Office.
Joanne: Unfortunately, they will be around for quite a while. Did you see the number of their items with bids? This, despite the TOS and the shipping costs. NO, I'm not jealous....just incredulous.
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cybercat
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posted on January 26, 2001 09:55:41 PM
From what I read on their "Me" page--it really is the Post Office! This is unbelievable!--and "in partnership with eBay"!!!
This is wrong. They shouldn't be doing this.
That little dig "don't let this happen to you" was absolutely bizarre!
cybercat
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argh
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posted on January 26, 2001 11:34:04 PM
Not much to be impressed with here. Their shipping is too expensive IMO. Plus they don't even pin themselves down on HOW things will be shipped - I'd never bid on an item if the seller might take that $6.95 s/h fee and ship it either First class or Priority.
Love the RS Prussia bowl that is listed now. They have an excellent pic of the bottom of the bowl; it's nice and clear. However, there is no pic at all of the side of the bowl most of us would choose to display - and no description either. Duh.
I noticed their response on a lot of the negs they have gotten is the same. They use this excuse a lot:
"Complaint: Pitcher arrived in pieces-Packaged poorly-Expected better from U.S.P.S
Response: Buyer never contacted seller before posting negative feedback"
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ahwahneeliz
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posted on January 27, 2001 12:10:33 AM
GAWD, what a dry screwing the public is getting. I can't believe this isn't against some law. But then again, it is the government.
`·. >(((º>`·.¸.¸>
ahwahneeliz
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twinsoft
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posted on January 27, 2001 12:15:32 AM
It's outrageous. I had 15 packages lost in my Christmas shipment. It's theft, plain and simple.
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lovepotions
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posted on January 27, 2001 01:48:49 AM
They dont say what they do with the money they make either.
I just looked at their everything else category of lost crap.
Damn was there a lot of Ab Slides.......
If you are a maker of unique items something you can clearly identify as something you made....like a quilt or a doll or a craft item and if you had some packages lost it might be in your best interest to see if you recognize anything as yours. Contact that seller especially if you have an identifying marke like a sewn in label. Maybe they will cancel the auction and send it to you.
It bothers me that they aren't making better attempts at returning packages. I have had 3 customers claim they never got their stuff last year. I make damn sure I have a good return label on it just in case. If I saw my lost packages for sale I'd go postal on them.
http://www.lovepotions.net
[ edited by lovepotions on Jan 27, 2001 02:04 AM ]
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chizlemon
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posted on January 27, 2001 08:42:30 AM
Guess you all missed the 4 other catagories of user id :
usps-mrc-music
usps-mrc-books,
usps-mrc-movie
and last but not least;
usps-mrc-everythingelse.
Isn't this great we can now buy back our lost items and resell them on ebay again?
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waspstar
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posted on January 27, 2001 08:49:05 AM
Last month I bought a box of 215 miscellaneous CDs from the USPS-Music seller. Hoping for re-sale, I was disappointed to receive a box full of mostly un-sellable, multiple copies of Sisqo, Marilyn Manson, Reba McEntire, Christina Aguilera. And when I say "multiple" I mean how about 22 copies of Sisqo, which I can't even get rid of for $1....
What amazes me is not that they decided to give ME so many copies of one CD, but that they have so many copies in the first place.
Is this how record companies put their artists in the Top 10? Sell 100,000 CDs through CD clubs who then ship them off to non-existent addresses? Hmmmm...
Oh well, live and learn... I'll be lucky to break even on this box of junk.
"My possessions are causing me suspicion." - Neil Finn
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twelvepole
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posted on January 27, 2001 08:59:05 AM
It's outrageous. I had 15 packages lost in my Christmas shipment. It's theft, plain and simple
Yeah right.
They just look for the "good" stuff to "lose" ROTFLMAO.....
I think they have the right to sell those lost items.
Ain't Life Grand...
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beatproducer
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posted on March 8, 2001 12:24:55 AM
Hey waspstar. Ill take those CDs off your hands...
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tapatti
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posted on March 8, 2001 12:51:55 AM
Doesn't anyone find this a little hard to beleive?
"All parcels that are undeliverable as addressed and have no return address are opened for inspection."
The sheer bulk of the merchandise going on the block....like entire PALLETS of books, and NONE of these packages had return addresses or had return labels that 'fell off'?
Where's the Congressional committees when they're needed.
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jrb3
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posted on March 8, 2001 04:07:31 AM
I've actually purchaased from them before.
When I had a couple questions they were answered promptly by a real person with a name.
Items arrived priority in a few days.
I thought their customer service was great and the shipping was pretty reasonable. Though I have seen some items that seemed to have super high S&H
I thought they did a good job.
I was told the proceeds go back to USPS General Fund after paying their employees who operate the auctions.
JOE B
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DebRay
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posted on March 8, 2001 04:39:46 AM
I was just wondering where people thought the items that were misdirected, damaged in shipment, seperated from their packaging (for whatever reason) went? Also, of the billions of items shipped, do you realize how small the percentage is that actually never gets delivered?
While I agree that the shipping costs can be a little high on these auctions, and their responses to poor packaging ARE laughable, perhaps the indirect acusations that "they" are somehow stealing the stuff to sell is a bit paranoid. IMO.
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shrty411
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posted on March 8, 2001 01:00:46 PM
You guys think it's bad dealing with the USPS, you should try WORKING for them. And NO,I don't get any discounts, and my mail gets lost too. On another note my manager who is fairly low-mid-management, comes to work with huge diamonds and fur coats. I scour the sale racks and ebay for my coats.
Guess where the money goes.
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birdwatcher-07
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posted on March 8, 2001 03:47:29 PM
Excuse me, Joanne! I happen to have a Ph.D. in BANDANAS! I get tired of every Joe Sixpack pretending to be an expert in bandanas, and I applaud the USPS for admitting it is not a bandana expert.
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citygirl1
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posted on March 8, 2001 07:27:55 PM
Someone please tell me this is a joke~
Citygirl
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