I'm not clear on whether you're concerned that your item has no tracking past the eBay International Shipping hub in Illinois or if you're concerned that you haven't received your item after the last estimated date of delivery.
Tracking only tells you where an item has been, not where it is. Your item may have moved on from the eIS hub but for whatever reason, subsequent tracking scans haven't been transmitting to eBay. (This seemed to happen sometimes with the old Global Shipping Program system, for what it's worth.) One reason I don't generally get bent out of shape about following tracking information is that I've concluded that knowing the last recorded scan location of my item doesn't change the fact that I haven't received it.
I doubt your first item was actually lost and I suspect this one wasn't, either. There have been a few posts on this board and the .com discussion boards that suggest that items with lithium ion batteries pose a logistical challenge for eIS and they tend to dead-end at the eIS hubs. Is there something about either item that could prove problematic for this quirky system to forward to Canada, do you think?
What's the last estimated date of delivery for this item, anyway?
