Hello everyone, hope you are well.

Well I thought I was doing just great when I bid on and won a Br 94, 88943 listed on eBay. I had been watching for one of these for a while since Chris touted the ability of this one to climb hills. I was somewhat aware of a good price and used PayPal like always. This was on April 3rd and I had purchased from this seller more than several times. I just had to wait for that shipping time all the way from New York.

This turned out to be the least of my worries. This seller shipped right away, but failed to provide a tracking number but at the time I was not worried because of my past experiences. This was during the Easter time.

It turned out, this item was delivered here just two days later, but I never realized it. I have those consolidated mail box centers and don’t check it every single day, but fairly consistently. A week later I contacted my seller to ask about my package and to my surprise he provided the record from the post office confirming the delivery a week earlier.

I submitted an inquiry and was told to submit a claim for a lost package. I have very little hope for a positive outcome to this episode and sadly feel like my years of good luck finally ran out. As they say, “some days are diamonds, some days are coal”.

Take good care. Maybe tomorrow will be your diamond day.


Dwight

Hello, thanks, hope all is well.

That is not good. Seems there should be some worthwhile remedy. On eBay, I thought my address is already in the record and they make it easy to print and ship, but I really don’t know.

There is no fix for this one even if I file a claim.

My only hope is for my package is that it will show up someday or be returned to my vendor, but at this point it seems unlikely. It has already been ten days.

I will be crying about the one that got away for a while.

Take good care.

Dwight

These days, it seems there is some scum everywhere! It's really disgusting. We were tought courage, honor, pride, regard respect, integrity, honesty.

No worries Chris.

We all try to share our knowledge and experience, and hopefully inspire someone along the way.

The experience I had with the Br 96 and its pulling power hopefully inspired someone looking for this type of locomotive. You did the same for me.

If we didn’t inspire each other, it wouldn’t be a forum.

Take good care.

Dwight

Thank you. You are right, it can always be worse.

I have won auctions from this vendor 5 or 6 times before without issues. But as we all know, anything good can suddenly go bad.

The tracking document from him shows the package tracking from NY to me. The P.O. seems to recognize this tracking and says the package was delivered to my mailbox. I never found the package in my mailbox so I actually believe the carrier put this package in a mailbox on another street. We have the cluster type boxes and mine is without a large package box. The box could have fit in my mailbox, it just was not there. A mystery which will haunt me for a while. When I go out the front door, or go to my mailbox, I am always looking for this ghost.

I asked the sender to provide some information for a claim and I apparently need the original receipt of shipping. I already submitted a package trace and was told to submit a lost package claim but I need that receipt.

The may take awhile to settle. There is still a chance. I have never lost a package before and have lived here for a long time without issues.

Take good care

Dwight

In Australia they are required to provide a receipt for tax purposes, otherwise report to relevant authority.

Failing that you just have to create endless adminstration for them. At least cost them more money than you lost.

On a few occasions I write a letter to the CEO of the company in a physical letter, physical letters work wonders. You only ever get to speak to one of CEO's lackeys, but at least you can have a polite but firm conversation on the issue. Has always solved the issue for me.

But if you can't win at least make it endlessly expensive for the other party. There is a surprising amount of satisfaction in that aspect alone. Just constantly waste their time... in other words money.

That's a nice gesture of the seller!