[ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal

[James Duffer]

What are you interested in?  State your "want to buy"  I am going to be 
cleaning out my garage soon!


>From: "Kevin Hobbs" <ve3kh at cogeco.ca>
>To: "Fs" <forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: RE: [ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal
>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:31:02 -0400
>
>I thought I was subscribed to a for-sale reflector, any chance anyone is
>going to post anything for sale any time soon?
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: forsale-swap-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:forsale-swap-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Loren Moline
>WA7SKT
>Sent: April 15, 2007 11:13 PM
>To: lmoline at hotmail.com; forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal
>
>Boy I sure messed up my spelling..what a night.
>
>Loren
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Loren Moline WA7SKT" <lmoline at hotmail.com>
>To: forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal
>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:11:11 -0700
>
>Pete,
>
>I was told by my local post office that prepaid shipping labels are not
>scanned by then when they come in. They only svan tracking if they sell the
>confirmation. That means if I print out a PayPal shipping label they don't
>scan it in as received. So you are right about their incomplete tracking
>syatem.
>
>73
>
>Loren  WA7SKT
>
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Peter Markavage <manualman at juno.com>
>To: forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal
>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:06:22 -0400
>
>The USPS tracking leaves a lot to be desired. It's scanned once when it
>enters a US Post Office to start its journey and is only scanned again
>when it is delivered. The fact that the package will also go through
>regional postal distribution centers, generally twice (one at the
>shippers end and one at the receivers end), but sometimes more, the
>package is never scanned at these locations (i.e. it arrived here at xxx
>and left here at xxx). Their tracking mechanism is about as useful as
>putting curtains on a postage stamp.
>
>Pete, wa2cwa
>
>On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:46:18 -0400 Radioman390 at cs.com writes:
>  >
>  > > I don't think he said fake but a tracking # that didn't show as
>  > being
>  > >shipped. That means that the label was prepared, probably on the
>  > internet.
>  > >That gets it into the UPS tracking system. Some time after that the
>  > package
>  > >either never made it to the drop off point or was picked up, or was
>  > not
>  > >properly scanned at UPS and is now lost in the system.
>  > >
>  >
>  > The Post Office (USPS) seems to have a problem which I have suffered
>  > from several times. The seller logs it into the system from home,
>  > but then something goes wrong when the package actually arrives at
>  > the PO. Maybe it needs to be scanned, but whatever this intermediate
>  > step is, if it's not done, the PO will only update its online
>  > tracking when the item is delivered. I've noticed this repeatedly;
>  > the seller was not lying.
>  >
>  > One possible reason: the seller drops it off at the PO, or throws it
>  > into a mailbox and the civil servant doesn't scan it. So much for
>  > technology.
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