Custom Item. SSA used UPS Ground to calculate 2 day transit time.
The name on the address is a 6 digit number.
There’s no Residence Inn in that zip code.
Address is invalid, and UPS isn’t possible in Buy Shipping.
Only “on-time” options are USPS/FedEx for $26.23 to $52.13
Should I just cancel?
4 Likes
Setalpz:
Address is invalid
That would be 3 strikes for us … cancel order for invalid shipping address.
11 Likes
selg
April 16, 2025, 9:28pm
3
This often indicates the item has been ordered for an incarcerated person.
Google the address and the name of the town.
Most prison orders go bad, based on my many years of selling books.
If in doubt, cancel the order, ASAP. Take the hit rather than lose your item.
ETA: Just noticed the address is a Marriott. Skip it! My long experience also tells you that orders shiped to hotels rarely go well.
5 Likes
I can’t get anything to match. No street address, it’s so wonky.
2 Likes
Will cancellation for “Shipping Address Undeliverable” affect my order cancellation metrics?
2 Likes
selg
April 16, 2025, 9:37pm
6
Maybe, but cancellation is better than paying for shipping and losing your item.
7 Likes
Yes, but unless you are borderline, cancel it anyway. This smells like a rat. A dead rat. The smelly kind.
6 Likes
CANCELLED.
Thank you for everyone’s feedback. I figure this looked obvious, but the only thing I know is that I know nothing.
7 Likes
selg
April 16, 2025, 9:58pm
9
No, you don’t know nothing.
You knew well enough to consult your fellow SAS participants when you encountered a situation with which you figured out you might require some help.
You did the right thing, and we were here to help you.
10 Likes
Setalpz:
Address is invalid
That’s a bingo right there for me
5 Likes
papy
April 23, 2025, 9:15pm
11
Did the Buyer reach out to you about the cancellation @Setalpz ?
1 Like
No response. I had messaged them about their address before I decided to cancel the order; they never replied. The cancellation has already fallen off my metrics, which put me at about a 1% cancellation rate due to my volume level last week. Very glad I cancelled.
5 Likes
papy
April 23, 2025, 9:42pm
13
Well done! If it was a legit order, you did everything you could to make it work.
5 Likes
rms
April 24, 2025, 4:26pm
14
Setalpz:
75150
This is Boos Brothers territory. I would regard that as one more mark against it.
2 Likes
Agreed; I’ll always remember the hand you played in addressing this ongoing problem, as eloquently described in your 101024 SAS post here:
This is part of a larger, more important question: how to get Amazon to acknowledge anything?
Amazon used to be a level playing ground - at least moderately so. It is not any more.
As is clearly demonstrated every day on the FUFE, sellers have legitimate slam-dunk complaints that nobody will address.
As every bookseller knows, there are blatant bookjackers operating in plain view, in clear violation of Amazon policies. There are zillions of pages that are substandard, with an individual of…
and your 021824 post here:
You can cancel the order, although it is not practical to do this frequently on Amazon.
I’ve found it useful in on other ways:
I had bad feedback on eBay removed when I put a link to badbuyerlist in the request.
EBay officially does not acknowledge its existence, but that rep clearly used it.
I’ve added signature confirmation based on what I saw on badbuyerlist, and then saw the recipient claim INR ddespitehaving signed for it. ( He lost the claim. )
It was integral in getting sellers toget…
The continued thriving - with Amazon’s connivance - of nefarious operations like those of these infamous brothers speaks largely to why so many sellers think of Amazon as a Sociopathic Greed Machine - but it is hardly alone in that regard, as our friend @Bird_of_Paradise intimates in this 042125 post over in the SAS’ Walmart forum:
I buy some grocery items and toiletries from Wal-Mart, both in store and online. But any third-party item I ever see on the website or app is priced exponentially higher than I can find it anywhere else, and this includes books.
For years now, the notorious bookjacking behemoth in Texas that goes by numerous different names was – and I am guessing still is – selling all sorts of different products on Wal-Mart, and that was enough to turn me off using any third-party seller on Wal-Mart. The Texa…
3 Likes