What is a "reasonable and timely manner" for shipping FS/T items?

[Triumph]

Question for you traders: Bought something through FS/T. Shipper said he'd ship the item on a certain date. A whole week passes, I don't receive the item. I PM the seller on that 7th day. I get no response. Two days later, I receive the item, with a shipping date 2 days earlier (i.e. after I reminded him). Three things I see wrong here:

1. Didn't ship when he said he would
2. Only shipped after I reminded him. Apparently he just forgot?
3. No response to my PM. Open communication is appreciated.

I was unhappy with this deal. Was I being unreasonable?

 

[arod]

I would be, but theres really nothing you can do...

If he said he shipped on a certain date it should have been shipped on a certain date. Make sure you put that in Heatware...

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Triumph
Question for you traders: Bought something through FS/T. Shipper said he'd ship the item on a certain date. A whole week passes, I don't receive the item. I PM the seller on that 7th day. I get no response. Two days later, I receive the item, with a shipping date 2 days earlier (i.e. after I reminded him). Three things I see wrong here:

1. Didn't ship when he said he would
2. Only shipped after I reminded him. Apparently he just forgot?
3. No response to my PM. Open communication is appreciated.

I was unhappy with this deal. Was I being unreasonable?

nope you weren't. And do what arod said, put it in his heatware. People deserve to know about this. It's not horribly bad, but it isn't good either

 

[helloedchen]

since you did receive the item, the trade was completed. but i would definitely note this in heatware, shipping a week later than promised date is bad trading imo.

 

[RalphKramden]

I'd be unhappy yes, but doesn't warrant a bad heat.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: RalphKramden
I'd be unhappy yes, but doesn't warrant a bad heat.

This DOES warrant a neutral heatware though. He did not communicate and did not do what he said he would do. I could understand being a day or two late shipping but a week requires that the person keep the line of communication open.

 

[Triumph]

Well, I did post a Heatware eval. This was back in December/January, I posted the eval then. I was very unhappy, so I gave him a negative. I just noticed now that he recently rated me a "neutral", saying that he did ship the items in a "reasonable and timely manner." I'm sorry, but I disagree. I'm not a huge trader, but I don't think I did anything out of line. Before I posted the eval, I went back to FS/T and re-read the trading guidelines. The rules are pretty clear: ship in a timely manner, and post an eval, no matter what.

Well, future traders with him can always read my eval and decide for themselves if a week is considered "reasonable and timely," or if I'm out of line.