With three projects going, I buy and sell a fair amount on eBay, so it isn't uncommon to come
home to find a package or two on the porch. That is, unless I haven't
purchased anything, and then it's really odd.
In the past week that has happened twice from people that I have
never purchased from, nor have I sold to. I didn't realize the first
package was sent in error as I hadn't had a chance to open it and it sat
for several days before I did. What gave me concern was when I had
everything I had ordered, or so I thought, and two more packages showed
up. Very strange!
So I did the honest thing and contacted eBay. Their customer
service rep listened to
my story carefully, and then asked to put me on hold. When he returned I
was informed that he could neither confirm who the seller was, nor the
buyer. Further, they had no policy on record to address this scenario as
they have "never had anyone call to say they received something they
didn't pay for," so their position was this: I could keep the items, or I
could try to figure out who the sellers were and talk to them.
Morally, I can't (and won't) keep them, but now the burden of
finding where these belong has fallen on me. Fortunately there were
enough clues for me to locate the original auctions and sellers without
having to chase them down via their return addresses. I have contacted
both. The problem with this is this only gets me half way there. The
items are no longer legally theirs. They belong to the buyers.
Further, I have to hope that both items were purchased by the same
person, that they weren't using my name and address intentionally to
commit fraud, or in an attempt to defraud me, and convince them that my
shipping address is showing up in their account through no action on my
part.
Fun.
And if it's two different buyers, I now have a whole host of potential issues to worry about.
On the bright side, at least I don't have to worry about eBay coming after me. They could care less.
Many happy returns!
P.S. More on wagon progress soon (now that I finished redoing my daughters bedroom set!)
