anyone ever have a well-ranked vendor go silent suddenly? I placed an order with a vendor on BSM and all was good. Shipment was marked as shipped. It has now been 5 days and nothing has arrived. The person has not logged on and they have tons of unread messages. I'm beginning to fear the worst - anyone have any experience with something like this?
edit: product was shipped express, another reason I fear LE is involved given the time.
Can you name the vendor and market?
I have seen it happen with two long term, solid vendors - one I believe was pinched or quit suddenly when XK was arrested, and the other came back after about a month with a plausible story but I changed to a new vendor anyhow. Both times I was refunded from escrow - once by the vendor on his return and once by agora.
Express packages often go weird because vendors use the correct envelope and postage, but don't go to the post to fill out the express form. Those end up not tracked a lot of the time and are delivered like regular first class mail due to not being scanned/prioritized. I've never had an issue with express when the vendor did it correctly, but it's also such a risk for the vendor I understand completely why they don't choose to.