I've never shipped the wrong item, but I have received the wrong one.  I just asked the seller for the other party's address and sent it on to him.

I've had the wrong item shipped to me twice.  In both cases another buyer had got my item and the seller asked us to ship the items to each other.  The seller paid for the additional postage.  And in one instance, the original shipping was refunded as well.

So, everything turned out well.  However, in the instance where the seller paid for the postage and refunded the original shipping, I think they might have been better off simply refunding the original payments and writing it off as the items were low value.

Not yet, but I'm sure it will happen.  In fact, I thought I had sent YOU the wrong item recently, but that wasn't the case after all.  Whew!

Terminal_Frost wrote:Yep I did, it was with you as a matter of fact.  I picked up the shipping of your next lot of miniature purchases which killed me and you sent the box set to the guy I sent the wrong box set to and he did vice versa I think.

Last time i ever made that mistake.

Blackmoor wrote:Crap!!

I just auctioned off all my Traveller stuff!  Everything was going great then I sent the wrong module to a guy.  This has never happened to me before, what a pain in the A**.  Anyway, anybody else every do that?  What did you do and what was the outcome?

J

Small world, I forgot about that already!!

J

Stephen (bombadil), weren't you on the tail end of my flub?

TheElderEye wrote:I've never sent the wrong item but I have (once) left out a map by accident

Same here. I've had to do "follow-up" shipments at least twice that I remember. Paid out of my own pocket, obviously, and with many apologies.

Beyondthebreach wrote:I've done it twice so far.  The last time involved King of Pain who was real cool about everything.

Yeah I remember that.  Went very smooth.  I ended up sending the items back to you directly.  I figure "shit happens" sometimes.  I have always been real patient with sellers, especially the ones that do a lot of business.  Only two bad experiences on Ebay (yours obviously wasnt one of them) so far and I still didnt neg them.

I've had the wrong item shipped to me twice. In both cases another buyer had got my item and the seller asked us to ship the items to each other.

I would be a little leery about having both buyers just ship directly to each other.  It would be faster but who says one of the sellers wouldnt just keep the wrong merchandise and then say "Sorry, it must have gotten lost in the mail".

A few years back, I needed some cash and was forced to sell my beloved R1-4, RPGA1-4 and ST1 modules.  I got pretty good prices for them, but fracked up big time and sent 3 of them by mistake to a collector in Italy, and his one module went to a collector in the US who should have been sent the first 3.  The Italian collector agreed to send them back to me, but they went mysteriously 'missing in the mail'. Then he stopped answering e-mails.  I never got them back, and had to refund the purchase price of the US collector too.  I lost a lot of money as well as the heart of my collection, and for a short time lost faith in the collector community.

In case you're curious, the Italian collector went by the name of 'Loralon'.  Anyone know him?

otherworld wrote:A few years back, I needed some cash and was forced to sell my beloved R1-4, RPGA1-4 and ST1 modules.  I got pretty good prices for them, but fracked up big time and sent 3 of them by mistake to a collector in Italy, and his one module went to a collector in the US who should have been sent the first 3.  The Italian collector agreed to send them back to me, but they went mysteriously 'missing in the mail'. Then he stopped answering e-mails.  I never got them back, and had to refund the purchase price of the US collector too.  I lost a lot of money as well as the heart of my collection, and for a short time lost faith in the collector community.

In case you're curious, the Italian collector went by the name of 'Loralon'.  Anyone know him?

Oh gosh that is harsh!

I've had it happen a couple of times now, once involved fairly common items that I think I even had duplicates of so it was an easy fix.  The second time involved me shipping an item to Canada meant to go to Brazil.  The logistics of sorting it out were pretty complex (and expensive) since it involved items that weren't simply "replacable"