Silk Road forums
Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: soyyo1114873 on May 07, 2012, 04:31 pm
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Hi, is someone else having problems with some selected sellers in that not only do they take an inordinately long time to ship an item, but they don't answer messages either?
I bought two things from two sellers on the last day of the 420 sale, whose names I won't mention because I don't want to be unfair to them and give them bad publlicity (although one admits being one of the slowest sellers on SR on his profile page), and they're still processing the sale, according to my order page. I have good standing and never requested a refund nor autofinalized, so that isn't it. They're just being cantankerous and to my mind, extremely discourteous.
SR doesn't offer a remedy, they just say, wait or cancel. It occurs to me that the admins could institute a policy of carrot and stick with vendors like this, they could step in and do something. Anything.
What do you all think? This is downright a pain in the nether regions.
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if they don't respond to a pm asking about your order I would cancel it.
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It is a pain especially when they advertise fast delivery and that is the reason you chose them. 24 hours should be more than enough time for vendors to send, in my opinion of course :)
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Hurry and cancel before it goes in transit. Thats two weeks!
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Chiming in, I have only received 1/5 420 orders so far... :-\
2 orders placed a couple weeks prior finally got resolved (full refund luckily), but those vendors sorta disappeared (at least no more listings/activity) :o
I actually placed an order on the clearnet to an RC vendor, JUST to see what actual Canada shipping times are, and I got an order in ~9 days.
Anyone else having order issues since the 420 sales happened?
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Well, looks like I'm not alone then.
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Have you took into consideration the mass amount of sales they had on 4/20. Most vendors only ship on Monday through Wednesday. They can't ship out everything on those first three days because they would obviously take a risk of being busted especially since it's not a national holiday and would be hard to say your sending out gifts for 4/20 lol.
So if they don't ship on that wed. They will ship the following Monday. You have to keep all those factors in mind. You have to also understand that some of the vendors take the silk road on as a full time job and others are trying to juggle it into their everyday life. So the part time vendors won't obviously be sending out as many orders and responding to as many pm's as the full time vendors.
I would rather something be a few days late, if it meant that extra time was needed to protect the safety of me as a customer and the safety of the vendor.
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Definitely not alone. I have purchased from a reputable seller on 4/20 and barely gotten product today. Due to the shitton of people ordering on the same day vendors have difficulty catching up on shipping, it seems.
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You're having someone mail illegal items to your door. These people take a lot of risks. They can't just stop by the post office. They have to drive around to different collection boxes. they have to take all kinds of security precautions and make sure their fingerprints aren't on your package.
I'm just saying 'be patient'. But if it takes more than two weeks get your money back.
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You're having someone mail illegal items to your door. These people take a lot of risks. They can't just stop by the post office. They have to drive around to different collection boxes. they have to take all kinds of security precautions and make sure their fingerprints aren't on your package.
I'm just saying 'be patient'. But if it takes more than two weeks get your money back.
Yea and they have to be random about what boxes they drop in. They can only drop so many packs and what not. I received an order after 2 weeks. Domestic first class. Sometimes, mail just gets lost for a little bit. Idk why, but it does lol.
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You're having someone mail illegal items to your door. These people take a lot of risks. They can't just stop by the post office. They have to drive around to different collection boxes. they have to take all kinds of security precautions and make sure their fingerprints aren't on your package.
I'm just saying 'be patient'. But if it takes more than two weeks get your money back.
Yea and they have to be random about what boxes they drop in. They can only drop so many packs and what not. I received an order after 2 weeks. Domestic first class. Sometimes, mail just gets lost for a little bit. Idk why, but it does lol.
Yeah, but there's one thing none of you guys are taking into account. Not only haven't they shipped, they don't even answer PMs. I mean, what does it take, 60 seconds to answer a goddam message? That's insulting is what it is.
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Waiting for the packages is the worst part about SR. I'm looking forward to the day that packages can be teleported instantly. From what I understand,it should be possible in my lifetime.
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You're having someone mail illegal items to your door. These people take a lot of risks. They can't just stop by the post office. They have to drive around to different collection boxes. they have to take all kinds of security precautions and make sure their fingerprints aren't on your package.
I'm just saying 'be patient'. But if it takes more than two weeks get your money back.
Yea and they have to be random about what boxes they drop in. They can only drop so many packs and what not. I received an order after 2 weeks. Domestic first class. Sometimes, mail just gets lost for a little bit. Idk why, but it does lol.
Yeah, but there's one thing none of you guys are taking into account. Not only haven't they shipped, they don't even answer PMs. I mean, what does it take, 60 seconds to answer a goddam message? That's insulting is what it is.
i wouldn't answer you either.
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Yeah, but there's one thing none of you guys are taking into account. Not only haven't they shipped, they don't even answer PMs. I mean, what does it take, 60 seconds to answer a goddam message? That's insulting is what it is.
If you have an unresponsive vendor, then he's either gotten out of business before he could ship, gotten into some sort of trouble, or just stopped caring. Do something before it auto-finalizes to get your coins back and post a review :)
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You're having someone mail illegal items to your door. These people take a lot of risks. They can't just stop by the post office. They have to drive around to different collection boxes. they have to take all kinds of security precautions and make sure their fingerprints aren't on your package.
I'm just saying 'be patient'. But if it takes more than two weeks get your money back.
Yea and they have to be random about what boxes they drop in. They can only drop so many packs and what not. I received an order after 2 weeks. Domestic first class. Sometimes, mail just gets lost for a little bit. Idk why, but it does lol.
Yeah, but there's one thing none of you guys are taking into account. Not only haven't they shipped, they don't even answer PMs. I mean, what does it take, 60 seconds to answer a goddam message? That's insulting is what it is.
Are you using PGP when you send them messages?
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Yeah, but there's one thing none of you guys are taking into account. Not only haven't they shipped, they don't even answer PMs. I mean, what does it take, 60 seconds to answer a goddam message? That's insulting is what it is.
yeah, if he's not even replying to you for over a week, that's just shitty service.
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yeah man. ive had it happen a couple times with people delaying their sending. but its just me being a fiend. however, i didnt receive one package from 4.20. looking forward to getting it resolved but who knows
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Yeah, I've noticed a lot of seller recently updating their profile asking the customers not to contact them about there item unless it's very late or important because of the amount of sells.
Some also only ship Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and say on their profile that they are very slow.
I would give it a couple of weeks but surely, if they do not respond to anything, and you have no item, I would lurk around the forums to find the sellers review and feedback thread to see if anyone else is having the same problem
If you cant find it, start one yourself.
good luck, hope you stayed in ESCROW