Item marked ship but cannot be trace

[Anonymous]

I have ordered a bag from a Chinese buyer and she will use epacket to ship to Canada . Since Jan 8 the item still under tracking number provided . I contacted the seller and she demanded she did ship the item out and told me to be patient . Not sure what to do .
Here is my tracking number
YD473548375545ZH (If this is a fake no or not)

[mrdutch1001]

haven't purchased anything from China in a few years, but when I did several years ago, for light weight items(which were sent in a small bubble type envelope), the tracking numbers provided were useless and meant nothing...fake or not, I do not know... but the so called tracking numbers were of no use. My packages did arrive in about 3 weeks, though.

[clemowbooks]

You ordered on January 8 and today is January 17. Nine days in transit including a weekend.

In my experience it takes about 20 days for delivery from anywhere in North America and about 30 days from Asia.

EBay gave you an approximate window for delivery. What is the LAST estimated delivery date?

If the item has not arrived by that date, you can open a Dispute in the Resolution Centre at the bottom of this page and if the seller cannot prove DELIVERY (not shipping, delivery) you will be refunded.

You have 30 days from that last estimated delivery date to open a Dispute.

Tracking does nothing for a buyer.

it does not speed up delivery, nor does it protect a shipment from damage in transit.

Tracking is a Seller Protection.

It would be very very stupid for a seller to give a buyer a false tracking number. (But there are a lot of stupid people in the world, and most of them think they are clever.)

[electronicifycanada]

The tracking number isn't really fake, it works in China and some other countries, it just doesn't work with Canada Post once it arrives to Canada.

Lots of times it will say "Arrived to destination country" then stops. The mail usually arrives within 2 months, I will wait 3 months before asking the seller to do something. You have up to 6 months if your buying with PayPal.

[ddawson108]

I buy from China on occasion and most tracking numbers I get don't work for me. The best thing is to be patient, there is usually a long delivery time on items from China and I find it can take weeks for them to even open the container with the item at customs. The deal is with the post office they have a delivery standard set for international incoming packages but the clock doesn't start until they open the container. These low profit packages can sit for weeks in their container until the postal service decides to start sorting them as other higher profit packages take priority and they don't want to start the clock until they have plenty of time. Almost every package I have ever ordered from China through Ebay has come with only a couple exceptions so just wait it out. You can always file a claim down the road as long as it is within 30 days of the estimated delivery date which I find is usually 1 to 2 months coming from China.