Last weekend while traveling to my grandmother’s 80th birthday I was checking eBay looking at the newly released Allen & Ginter cards of my favorite players. During one search I located one of the Stained Glass Clayton Kershaw minis.

The card was gorgeous. It was listed as a Buy In Now and at the time was one of only three copies for sale. One was at auction, one was listed at $129.99, and this was posted for $89.99. I waited an hour or so, then checked again and the seller had dropped it to $79.99.

It was at moment I decided to pull the trigger.

I purchase was made, the card was mailed and … five days later, the packaged was supposedly delivered. At least that is what the United States Postal Service Tracking Number suggests.

The packaged was reportedly delivered at 5:07 p.m., which is an odd time for the mail to arrive in my area. Nonetheless, the card was not at my door. I figured this was the latest in the unresolved scam of scanning cards a day before their true deliver — something I’d written about in the past — so I didn’t freak out too much. Perhaps it would be delivered a day later.

The next day there was no Kershaw.

And the day after that? There was still no Kershaw.

And the day after the day after the day? Yep, no damn Kershaw.

As a buyer I’m sort of screwed, because it’s assumed that the seller did all that he was supposed to do. He added tracking information and for his part it does show Delivered in the appropriate city. Yet here I am with another crappy story of failed delivery.

I’m still holding out hope that the package arrives at some point in the next few days. But I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, I’m sort of SOL.

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