Postal Letter

Ebay fraud? weird shipping ?

Ok I recently won an auction on ebay from a seller with 0 feedback, after speaking to paypal they made me feel comfortable enough that they had me covered in case of fraud, so I bid and won the auction, the shipping said "free shipping US Postal Service Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope", the seller did not reply to two emails sent during the Christmas Holiday which was understandable, ebay advised I call the seller and I did, she was very nice on the phone and said she would ship the item out that day, later sent me an email with tracking info, the problem was that it was not USPS as her page said, it was www.theupsstore.com, when I called UPS they said it was a franchise that was not owned by them, the tracking # the seller gave did not work on the regular UPS website, weird? at www.theupsstore.com, the tracking link gave me a warning on mozilla, explorer, and chrome saying Secure Connection Failed www.iship.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for iship.com (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) the website is www.iship.com that has an invalid security certificate, I past the warning and clicked on the link and tracked the package and it said "SHIPPED" and expected jan 6, but the sellers email with the shipping info told me that the ups store said they would be shipping the item out mon dec 29th, the tracking # told me the item was SHIPPED, whats going on? the UPS employee I spoke to told me that the tracking #'s should be the same yet the regular UPS website and the employee over the phone do not recognize the number, I am very worried, is this some kind of scam? I will call paypal and ask them about this and am waiting for ebay to respond, but if anyone out there knows anything whether good or bad please let me know what you think.

Public Comments

1. They use a separate franchise to ship. The message you got for a bad cert domain has to do with your browser. I had no problem accessing www.theupsstore.com Wait until Jan 6th and if you don't get it by then you can file a complaint with Ebay. If the number was not recognized it could be because it wasn't in the system yet.
2. You have 30 days to file a complaint so that should give you plenty of time to receive the item. After looking at the site, theupsstore.com, I feel it is a legitimate website. The fine print at the bottom states that it is a franchise owned by mail boxes etc.
3. be patiant. its nothing to do with ebay, its between you and the seller. just keep in contact and give a reasonable time to arrive.