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<<I am very disgusted with some of these ebay sellers ,misleading buyers and not shipping items bought because they say they forgot ? its awful I have been buying thousands of dollars on Ebay ,I think ebay should be strick on who should sell .otherwise it will give them bad name . lately i purchased 6 items and had issues with 5 items not good .>>
Hello 'protechradiocommunication2010',
If you have sincerely "had issues" with the last 5 of 6 items you purchased, maybe you are not choosing
your sellers carefully enough. Do you read the members' feedback to provide clues about their reliability?
Location makes a difference too, of course. If you order an item from China, it can take a surprisingly long
time to arrive. I once waited 51 days for dog poop bags to arrive from China. It was a very low-priced
item (haha, obviously!), so I didn't bother the seller nor consider a chargeback. The package would either
show up or not.
So when it did, based on the postmark it was mailed the day after I paid. That means it was somewhere in
the postal system for a full 50 days!
But I was glad to see it, and the seller got his 'positive', including 5 stars for shipping time. After all, he
mailed it the day after I paid. That's a really fast "Shipping Time".
Only twice on ebay has the seller waited too long to mail my item, - in both instances, the postmark indicated
the seller did not mail the item for 3 weeks. I suspect they were waiting out that 21-day hold which paypal
sometimes places on low-volume sellers.
And one time has a seller admitted he forgot. On another site, - after nearly 3 weeks I contacted
the seller (he lives one province over) and he confessed that he forgot and the thing was still in the
trunk of his car! 
I would agree with you that there's no shortage of truly horrible sellers on ebay. But you've been on ebay
long enough that you should be more adept at discerning who they are.
So I'm thinking, for future reference, it might help to lower your blood pressure if you were to familiarize
yourself with postal rates, -- they're waaaay higher than you might think:
From the US postal service:
http://ircalc.usps.com/?country=10054
Those UPS rates seem low in the listing, but there's always a brokerage fee the buyer is not told about.
Every country has different customs fees, and each seller cannot possibly know what it costs for brokerage
and duties/taxes for every country. People buying and selling internationally can be expected to know the
charges for only one country, - their own.
Truth is, it is best to avoid listings using UPS, for Canadian buyers at least, because of the high fees.
This will show you a bit about UPS items to Canada:
http://www.ups.com/content/ca/en/shipping/cost/zones/customs_clearance.html
If you buy from the UK, Royal Mail is one of the best and speediest on the planet, but wow, expensive!
http://www.royalmail.com/price-finder
Why not have a look at what it costs Canadians to mail packages abroad, or for that matter, within Canada:
http://www.postescanada.ca/cpotools/apps/far/personal/findARate?execution=e1s1
And of course, if you buy from an American seller using that Global Shipping Program, you will invariably
pay far more in postage than necessary. Not the seller's doing, and the seller may not even know s/he is
signed up for it.
You'll know these listings because they shout out "No additional import charges at delivery!", as if they were
really offering you a treat.
Before you bid or buy, make sure to confirm how the item is being shipped. That super-cheap UPS Standard
fee will subsequently have huge brokerage/ customs fees.
Even an expensive item travelling by post may or may not be assessed for charges.
Items over 4 pounds have to come Priority. From the UK they have to come by courrier (again, expensive).
Items arriving via Fedex will have brokerage & customs fees (if over $20 Cdn in value), but not as bad as
UPS.
Items shipped "Surface Mail" will take about 2 months to arrive, so hardly any sellers use it.
And anything sent 'Expre$$' will be costly.
This next link will tell you about importing by mail (duties, taxes, etc.), which can be useful to know:
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/postal-postale/duty-droits-eng.html
Mail order items will necessarily include charges and require time to arrive. Any problems that arise related
to the item itself can usually be remedied with a kindly worded note to the seller.
Odd as it will sound, reading as much as you can about buying, particularly if you shop internationally,
will help you to become a more effective buyer and avoid many infuriating difficulties.
Just my 2.3 cents 
