I'm bout fed up with ebay buyers!! Update... It just gets better!

[TyrannosaurusChix]

haha im sorry to laugh but did you notice his profile picture on ebay???



He sells scanners, buys and sells dolls...

and then eggs/chickens.


im thinking there are some very scared little chics running around at his house dressed up in doll clothes...

something right out of the movie "Wrong Turn"

 

[Rebel Rooster]

Oh Guys... My favorite tale is when I have buyers sending me an emale (on day 19 of incubation) asking me how long are these eggs supposed to sit in this incubator thinggy before they hatch???

Oh Wow... These are the kinds of folks leaving Neg. feedback when they only have 8 out of 10 hatch... or leaving Neg. feedback on a poor hatch when they don't even know how to operate their bator...

 

[VioletandBodie]

its a chanse you take when you buy live things so if they arnthappy they should find somone els willing to sell to them.... my fav thing about stupid buyers are that they dont understand that breeders talk and will say if the buyer is a bad guy or not.

 

[Rebel Rooster]

We need a list of all of the "Bad Buyers" posted here on BYC so that we can add the names to our "Blocked from Bidding" list on ebay... boy, that would sure help! Especially next spring when it gets crazy on ebay...

 

[BlueBirdChick]

aww sorry about that

not cool..

 

[onehorse_2000]

Hey, hey, hey, now, I buy eggs on eBay and I give the benefit of the doubt, they are eggs, coming through the mail, hopefully within the 3 day timeframe for priority from who knows where and I have had some great hatches and I have had some lousy ones. But, I just loved when I got not 1, but 2 shipments of eggs from the same seller that were over 1/2 developed. What a royal mess. I didn't realized, didn't check (my bad) the first set, 2 oozied in the incuabtor and 1 exploded when I took them out, after 7 days in the bator (7 days). Contacted the seller about the issue and she said she would send another set when her hens started laying again from being broody and molting, okay, not a problem, chickens do that. Months go by with no word at all, so I contact her to see where things are, hens are now laying again, she'll be sending them out right away. Great! Get the second set, getting a little smarter in my older age, so I candle the buggers, and I will be danged, the second set is 1/2 developed too! Cracked open most of them and all but 1 had some kind of development in them from veining to 1/2 developed to a feathered little chick inside, yuck! And then she got mad at me for asking about the situation. Huh? At least I got a refund on that one and the seller got of easy with neutral feedback.

 

[panner123]

I HATE SHIPPED EGGS. Last spring I shipped my sister 15 eggs, only 1 hatched. From the same days eggs, I placed 36 eggs in the bator. I got 35 chicks from that batch. Did I pick out 14 infertile eggs to send to her, heck no, they were shipped eggs. Once people learn that packages are handled in ways that are not ideal for the eggs. It is not only the the plane ride, it is the way the packages are thrown around. No matter how well the eggs are packaged, the sudden stops of the package is like getting a concussion. To many of these is to much for even the toughtest of humans let alone an egg.

 

[BlueBirdChick]

I cant always blame the seller on Ebay. All sellers are different. so far Ive had nothing but bad experiences with buying on Ebay. Even though the seller has had a great feedback score and rating. I bought like five different hatching eggs and none hatched. I dont know who to blame.

Now some did develop but ended up dying at day 21 or earlier, some werent fertile at all. Some werent viable because they got lost in the mail. One lady send me some crele old english game bantams. I got her package two weeks after she had sent them. Now I know it was the post offices fault. What had happen was the airplane wasnt taking any packages or something like that. So they eggs had to be delivered by truck. I spent a good deal of money on those eggs, too bad I cant it back from the PO.
It does suck when you get these eggs and hope for a good hatch , or hope that they develop at all. I think I spent over 100 dollars in total on those eggs.. Ive learned my lesson Im not buying off Ebay anymore.

Not trying to take anything away from the good sellers cause they are out there, its just Ive got a bad taste in my mouth now. Im going from now on either buy on here or from hatcheries. Still theres that chance . You take that risk by buying hatching eggs...

 

[Intheswamp]

I know this thread started back in the summer and pertained to a shipment of eggs apparently from South Carolina to California. I've yet to order any eggs so I don't have any experience with it, but I've given it a bit of thought.

It seems that the physical distance that the eggs travel might have a large impact on hatchability. If a package ships from both California and from South Carolina coming to south Alabama and both packages arrive in the same time frame of three days it would seem natural to me that the longer journey from California would put more stress on the eggs....more miles to bump, vibrate, heat up, cool down, maybe even decompression in an airplane's belly, etc.,. Coming from SC the eggs might take the same amount of time to arrive but there would be some rest-stops (non bumping, vibrating time) along the way. Imagine the difference in how much stress those two different trips would put on us.

My intentions, when the day comes to other some eggs are to try and keep the shipping points on my side of the Mississippi River...and preferably within a state or two away from me.

Just some thoughts,
Ed

 

[ctaynton]

I have purchased hatching eggs from EBAY once and got 1 out of 6. Then one that did hatch was a rooster! HAHA! I didn't blame the seller for the hatch rate since I live in Oregon and he lives in Florida! That is just the risk I was taking. I was lucky I got my cuckoo marans roo. He was just a spendy roo He had sent me an extra but one was broken so I am not sure if it contaminated the others, therefore affecting the hatch rate.
I purchased hatching eggs from someone on BYC that lived in Washington which is close to me. I got 3 out of 6 that time. I considered that pretty good hatch rate being shipped.
I think it just depends on the people you are dealing wtih. There are honest people who love what they do and try to do a good job and others who are out to scam good folks who are trusting.