eBay Flash Sale Discussion and Commentary Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by kibble, Jan 11, 2018.

  1. prime326

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    I feel your pain. I ordered on the last flash sale and Baba's order came lickety split after the China holiday, but another order (UT Challenger, which I need now) from a greater seller, still shows the same message you have. I reached out and they said they would look into it, but nothing yet.
     
  2. prime326

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    Me too. This whole new process is not working for me.
     
  3. Tonyshotz

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    Anyone have the link for bobbas $5 off $70? I get the discount offer when I'm home but at work (same Ebay account) it only offers $5 off $120. I even tried to send myself the link via Emal to no avail. I'm hoping to grab XTB Skids on the next flash sale but they always start after I get to work and I'd assume they will be sold out by the time I get home.
     
  4. Hoffman

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    Mine left the Consolidation Center on September 28, still waiting for an update.
     
  5. Tismark

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    Interesting, according to e-Bay's tracking this is the status of my wayward speedpak shipment:

    Sunday, Sep 30, 2018 2:15 PM ZhengZhouShi , HeNanSheng Consolidation Center Departure

    and nothing since.

    I took the tracking number and plugged it into 17track.net to see if there was any difference. I've always found that site fairly reliable, but nope, exactly the same last status as eBay shows. I googled speedpak tracking and got this site and decided to try it.

    Economy SpeedPAK tracking from China

    This shows a different last status:

    03 Oct 2018 14:07 Regional distribution center arrived Hangzhou, China

    If that's right, it's still in China...

    I wonder why eBay doesn't show that more recent event?

    I have had a package in the past few months that stopped updating and then suddenly updated when it was being delivered the next day. There were no notifications that it had even gotten to the US at all. So, I'll cross my fingers this one is having a similar experience and is actually en route somewhere. At least I'll give it a bit more time before I start bugging anyone but I'm going to start paying attention to see if Speedpak is what the seller is using. Yuck!
     
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    The seller I bought the Black Mamba Prime from just told me it was returned to him because apparently the guns were identified as "unsafe" with SpeedPAK? I appreciate he reached out to me right away offering to either refund or use e-packet but that's something to keep in mind since it's also been quite a while since he first tried to ship this out to me.
     
  7. Hoffman

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    Interesting, mine says the same. Which means it hasn't even left China yet?
     
  8. Tismark

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    Maybe it's inaccurate? One can hope...
     
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    Mine shows the same as well, and that's with my order shipping out on the 28th.


    I wouldn't trust that info...:confused: 
     
  10. Tismark

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    I definitely can't vouch for that site, but when I plug in tracking numbers for shipments that have arrived, it shows the same info. that eBay shows.

    I do hope it's wrong because I'd rather find my package at the post office in the next day or two...

    As of yesterday, I have only the one item left hanging from the last flash sale.
     
  11. ChromeMagnus

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    Are you in the USA? If so did the Baba order require a signature? Mine did. His package got to me very quickly at it was a a big package (FT-20G). I think due to the Chinese holiday and slowness of SpeedPAK Baba must've done everyone a solid and sent those orders EMS so they would depart China quickly and be delivered sooner than usual.

    For what it's worth 1 of my 3 SpeedPAK orders from the last Ebay flash sale (9/27/2018) was finally delivered yesterday. According to USPS.com's Informed Delivery page, the other 2 are in the US but are still in transit. They have either just been picked up by shipping partner awaiting transfer to USPS (Inwood, NY) or they have just departed shipping partner facility awaiting USPS (Elizabethport, NJ). It'll probably be another 7-10 days before those 2 get delivered.
    Yeah, SpeedPAK sucks.

    Baba sent me this last week:
    Extra $5 off $70+ - old customers exclusive sale - eBay bababobo00712 store
    Make sure you're signed in. Test it out on the desktop site at work.
     
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    My 27th Sept Hellion is in US for sure but for some reasons I can't check on USPS's informed delivery page. I can only wait while doing nothing. Hopefully it will arrive before next flash sale. I will not want to use speedPAK anymore. The wait is just too long.
     
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    And now Track 17 is showing the same last status from October 3rd (i.e. distribution center arrived)... eBay still doesn't show anything newer than Sept 30th. I know eBay doesn't update tracking as frequently but it's bizarre to me period that updates are showing up from 13 days ago... Maybe there are more tracking updates in limbo out there as well and the package has been quietly moving along all this time...

    Either way, speedpak is not well named.
     
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    Thanks CM, that works perfectly!
     
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    Same as mine.

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    SOOO, no flash sales news on next one? lol
     
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    I wonder if Speedpak just pushed a system wide update…
    Because TODAY is the 1st time mine has been updated since Sept 30th…
    TODAY…
    With an update from Oct. 3rd as well.. TODAY…
    On Oct. 16th!

    I don't know what's wrong with SpeedPak… But Sumpin ain't right!!!
     
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  18. MOTOGPFAN46

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    Don’t want to be “that guy” but it looks like this thread should be renamed as the “overseas shipping” thread.
    Just my :2c: .
     
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  19. ChromeMagnus

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    Well how about this slight change of topic?
    Today I realized I've been patiently waiting on another flash sale, for a little over half the month, to use the earned eBay bucks from one of my accounts (used the coupon from my primary account because an auction ended, and why not?). Then I realized that by the end of this coupon redemption period, we're only slightly more than 1-week away from the single's day sales on 11.11; and I recall a number of deep discounted items that were going on at that time...

    I'm thinking there also was a preview site where I could see some of the AliExpress deals early. Hopefully something similar will be done this year.


     
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