I have an interesting Ebay issue and of course I cannot get through to any kind of customer support online because my problem doesn't match any of the standard issues/questions 🙂 rather frustrating.
I have recently received a package of electronic parts from a Chinese Ebay seller. Well, I'm assuming it is a Chinese Ebay seller, because I do buy parts from China on Ebay pretty regularly and this packet looks just like all the others I receive. However, this package is puzzling because I have no memory and no record of ordering these parts. I received qty 6 of a small multimeter breakout board. I have been looking through my order history for the entire year and I can't find this item.
In fact, I can't find this item on Ebay at all! I tried searching for "digital voltmeter breakout" and "digital multimeter breakout" and then with "module" instead of "breakout" and so on. Can't find a board that looks like this one. There is a number on the label that I thought might be the Ebay ID of the seller (10003194) but there's no such seller.
Of course no paperwork was included with the shipment so I have no idea which seller sent the package. It came from the huge Bentian Shanxue industrial park. There's a phone number on the label but it matches none of the phone numbers listed online for manufacturers in that park. I don't have a cheap international dialing plan so am reluctant to start what could be a long and costly phone conversation over a low-value pack of parts 🙂
The immediate suspicion would be that these parts were shipped in error, for qty 6 of some other part that I did order. Unfortunately I have not found an open order for qty 6 of anything electronic.
In other words I have received a mystery package, out of the blue, that looks very much like other packages of electronic goodies I've bought on Ebay from Chinese mfrs, but this one can't be accounted for. Has anyone else ever received a surprise package of this kind? Maybe some other buyer somewhere is wondering where their stuff is?
