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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: jibbah on August 17, 2013, 01:45 am

Title: shipping times / method OR people just cant relax?
Post by: jibbah on August 17, 2013, 01:45 am
I just joined and I'm just getting my bearings about me. This has probably been asked in some variation but the forums here are so vast. It's crazy how much info there is to read up on in regards to all this. And it's so fascinating!

Anyways, I made my first purchase yesterday. I probably did it a little hastily, but you live and learn, right?

The vendor was like 95% rated vendor which seemed good on the surface, but then when I went to his thread in the rumor mill, it seems a lot of people complain about shipping times. I cant tell if it just seems that way because only the ones who haven't gotten their purchase tend to make a lot of noise, or maybe the shipping times with the vendor actually suck.

I chose express, thinking that maybe the whole door->door would take about 3 days at most, and if I was lucky, it'd be here tomorrow. But then, as I said, I visited his thread and people are saying that they chose priority or express and they would get nothing, even after 7 days. Even though their order changed from "processing" to "in transit".

It seems there are all sorts of troubles from shipping times, to vendor being unresponsive, to vendor setting it to "in transit" without it actually getting dropped at the post office (they only packaged/labelled the purchase, didn't actually drop it off yet).

I guess what I'm asking is, how has everyone's experience with shipping times have been? And are the vendor threads more often the squeaky wheels posting and asking for statuses on their packages.

Naturally I'm a little ancy and anxious for my first order!