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rparker1998

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How long should I wait for a package from overseas? I am expecting 20 stones (from 3 different vendors) that I purchased on e-bay. One of the packages says it was shipped on 7/5 and I still don't have it..... :oops: :oops: :oops:

am I just being impatient?
 
I think so. I used to wait for 30 days for shipments from Thailand.
 
Did the vendors not provide any tracking information?
 
I usually give it 3-4 weeks before I start worrying.
 
Grrr, I know!! Me too! I am expecting a package from Tan, which was supposed to have shipped on 7-5 and take 10-15 days, according to the listing... well, it's been 15 days today. And Rockhugger posted on a spinel from Tan yesterday which wasn't shipped until at least 7-7! Sigh... I'm frustrated and impatient too. My husband is amused that I am so interested in getting the mail the instant I get home from work...
 
Count me among those eagerly antecipating mail. My pink spinel has been 3 weeks in transit and no sign of it yet.

I usually exect a package from the US to take 2 weeks to get here and, from Asia, at least 3 weeks. But that doesn't exactly comfort me right now!
 
I have some tracking information but because they are over seas packages, the tracking info doesn't always show up when you'd expect it to.

The one vendor I did contact and express a tad bit of frustration with sent me a reply back saying
"dont give up one me. package just shipped 7/5, give 10 more days. if you don't get, I will refund fully"

No package yet, they have until the end of the week, but then what if the package arrives and they issued refund?
 
Simple enough, if the package arrives and they issued a refund, you’ll pay them back the money again. :cheeky:
 
Hmm. I was expecting two packages from Tan, one shipped on 7-5 and the other on 7-10. Today I got the one shipped on 7-10 (with a couple of lovely stones, yay!)... the 7-5 one (which I was actually more excited about) is nowhere to be seen. Maybe I will write antsy email next week sometime if I don't get it by then...

rparker, did you get your packages? If you haven't gotten yours either maybe it's just some sort of slowdown from that particular time or something??
 
deorwine said:
Hmm. I was expecting two packages from Tan, one shipped on 7-5 and the other on 7-10. Today I got the one shipped on 7-10 (with a couple of lovely stones, yay!)... the 7-5 one (which I was actually more excited about) is nowhere to be seen. Maybe I will write antsy email next week sometime if I don't get it by then...

rparker, did you get your packages? If you haven't gotten yours either maybe it's just some sort of slowdown from that particular time or something??

I would check holidays for the region they were mailed from/through, that could play a part in the delay.
 
NOPE, no packages from any of my 3 vendors......

:angryfire:
 
Yeah... maybe it's something about the 7-5 timeframe as davi_el_mejor theorized?? I'll keep you posted. I hope both of us get our shinies, but in the meantime it's a little reassuring that I'm not the only one...
 
It can take a while. I've had some packages take 4 weeks before and most of the wait was as it was traveling around from post office to post office in the US :nono: :roll:

From Tan its 10-14 business days. A few others can take a bit longer.

I'm on the East Coast so I don't know if that really matters much.

-A
 
One time a package from Tan took three weeks, sometimes they get held up in customs. Most of the time it's two weeks. I just waited a long time for a stone, and it went to Germany from Hong Kong, before it came to me, in the United States. My packages travel a heck of a lot more than I do!!
 
I received some of my expected packages/items today. Still have 12 outstanding. But they were all in all, very good purchases. Most were as described with the exception of the photo's being a little lighter/darker. One actually made me say WOW when I took it out.

As I have a new puppy (woohoo :D) ) Photo's will have to wait until hubby returns from business trip so he can puppysit while I play photographer.
 
another package came today! WOHOOO.... Still waiting on a couple of pieces, and I can't wait to take photos of all my new stuff!

Today I received: round dematoid garnet that is just stunning, a beautiful sphene with some nice earth tones - it has more brown that I thought it would, but that works for me, as I LOVE earth tones all though some on PS might not like it - and finally I received one of my Turkish DIaspores - aka Zultanite - color change stone from kiwis to pinks etc. :love: :appl:

I am STILL waiting on my color change malia asscher cut garnet, and a few others I can't think of off the top of my head.

Question: Wouldn't it just be cheaper/make more sense- to ship everything in one package?
 
I'm glad you're getting your packages! I'm still waiting on my 7-5 package... haven't got the mail yet today though. I'll keep my fingers crossed! I agree, I would think it would make more sense to ship it all in the same package! Thanks for the updates, it gives me hope that you're getting your packages :)
 
No Problem, they all came in the last 3 days. I think there was just some delay from 7/5. Not sure where...
 
Yay, mine came in the mail today too! Interesting stones, I'll have to try to find time this weekend to take pics. rparker, thanks for being my companion in frustration! :)

TL, my package went to Germany too! No idea what it was doing there...
 
Perhaps by shipping many stones separately, the vendor is lessening the risk of losing all the stones in a single package?
 
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