I may have to open a complaint

That's good! I'm glad that it was all compensated for! It's a headache having to deal with the back and forth though. I'm sitting here considering how / what my next steps will be. I am guessing I should contact seller first, but from all the reviews, it seems that doesn't do any good either. I'll make sure I pay attention to the reviews from here on out!

@ScribbledAdNauseum That's a good idea.

also a couple of other complaints about ebay sellers but won't go into them

@Mike197602 The one time I did try to sell on ebay, I was halted because I could not just upload images from my phone to the ebay app. I wasn't going to spend hours upon hours upon hours uploading them to the computer just to do ebay that way. I had a vague idea that you could buy things like cars on ebay, but I've never gone about looking how it would be done.

@ScribbledAdNauseum overall I've been quite lucky with ebay. I've bought 2 motorbikes and sold one and also bought a car. First time buying a car I won the auction and said I'd pay cash and flew up to Glasgow and met the guy in the airport car park...exchanged details and money then drove back down it was an experience and went well. I bought 2 bikes and hired a van with my sister and we went to salisbury loaded the bikes, went to a bank and did a transfer all good. My first and only sale was my gsxr 750. A guy in scotland bought it and we agreed a delivery fee and he would pay by bank transfer. Myself and a mate hired a van drove up to inverness and it all went very very well. for some reason my account is suspended (not used since 09) but I'd buy/sell on ebay again but for high price items I would always do it in person.

My ex boyfrend is an ebay seller and he has told me how annoying it is that ebay sides with the buyer. Probably the path of least resistance for them.

@JESSY3236 Right, it's in the US and less than 12 hours away as well. So it doesn't explain why it's stuck.

Could you contact Pitney Bowes intead of the post office? Do you think that would get you anywhere?

@ScribbledAdNauseum They don't have a phone number for the GA facility. I did contact them on facebook and all they said it is that it is going take weeks for China products (I told them the package is coming from China). But it's in the US now.

I've had one or two, but never really any from ebay.

I can understand wanting to receive the item first. Unfortunately, that's not the way it works here. There is trust when we send a payment though, and if we do not receive the item we get our money back. Even if we have to fight the seller and / or report them for non delivery.

@ScribbledAdNauseum When purchasing clothing from China you always have to buy up a size or two. Their sizes are very small.

@patgalca Most of the people in China are tiny.

Oh, I've used Traditional Medicinals before which is why I wanted to try this (Healthy Cycle) one. It's not traditional medicinals that I am buying from directly, but an ebay seller. Oh yeah, I once bought a shirt that looked like it was going to be very big, I bought my size and well, it came, but it wasn't what I thought it would be. I didn't try to return it becuse it wasn't worth my hassle. I hate that your daughter had that trouble!

Oh, well it would have been nice had the seller mentioned that at the beginning, wouldn't have been?

@simone10 Right, but I feel like a person who uses a drop shipper needs to note somewhere that processing might take longer than is estimated.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes, that's true. I think he might have used a drop shipper and sometimes you don't know something is out of stock until you try to place an order.

I don't use SB anymore, heard too many horror stories, and honestly they stopped being worth it to use for me. I"m sorry you had that trouble. I never did like their policy of "not my problem"

@sallypup I used to talk to someone who did online tasks for money. He opened a high yielding savings account for that purpose so he could earn more. I know someone here does that too. The money I earn goes towards my bills as well.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Savings accounts have practically zero value these days. My highest yielding account is from a credit union and I think its just over one per cent. Regular banks are totally stupid- .10 or less. Might as well say zero.

I've heard others complain of ebay, but this is the first time I've had a big problem.

@Butterfingers I hope so, but usually sellers on ebay take less than two days to say they've shipped an item.

@ScribbledAdNauseum hope they deliver the product very soon