Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Time will tell, but I should caution you that a few of us have placed orders, received tracking info, and followed it to ultimate delivery to some other address. Likely a purse of women's clothing to Texas in one known case. What I believe is occurring in a situation like that, is that the Chinese seller has sold to you a product that he doesn't actually have in stock, but to keep your money in his account as long as possible, and to keep you on the hook as it were, they provide you with a tracking number of something that actually did ship ... just not to you. Meanwhile, they are hoping to be able to fill the order from their end, and ship to you belatedly, or in the best case, have you give up on the whole thing without filing a claim, so they end up with your money, for free as it were.

Not saying that this is what's happening to you. Your engine may well be delivered soon against the very number you've been tracking. Just saying that some fast and loose games have been played before in situations such as this!

Bonjour,
I do like Nick, I buy direcly to Jin, before I send him a message to know if the product is available, I trust him, then pay with Paypal and follow the package with 17track.net.
In France, our custom controls take a lot of time but I never had any problem, I even received an entire 90 cm boat from Jin (my tug "Vient de loin") !

Great. I’m getting great advice to buy directly from Jin, yet didn’t know that was even possible until I bought from enginediy.com. They provide a tracking number from the Chinese carrier, and I’m using the  tracking provided, directly through the carrier, and through 17track. It worked fantastically when the package was moving through the Chinese side, and through the US customs process. Then it simply says “transferred to local courier “ or some such once it got released in Los Angeles. There is no indication of who the local carrier is, nor any tracking that shows progress in that system, be it USPS, FedEx or UPS. That’s the black hole. 17track is actually expecting me to mark it as delivered. I won’t know when it’s coming, or if porch pirates got it, unless somebody gives me a clue on movement within three thousand miles. 

But blame the buyer. Shoulda bought from Jin. Silly me. Not for nothing, but several videos mention microcosm or bang good. Bang good’s system is a mess. I tried to
Buy from them but aborted the process when they kept trying to force a payment system I’d never heard of. So enginediy looked legit. They show all of Jin’s engines. 

You can read about my fun dealing with “Eachine” through eBay on Jin’s engine here

https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/off-topic/eachine-hit-miss-shipping-saga-continues/

I was able to email enginediy.com and got a reply in about twelve hours.  They provided a 17travk link with the so-called last mile tracking number. Soon afterward the USPS indicated the parcel was on the move  from CA.  As has happened frequently of late, USPS is very slow uploading tracking events. By the time they indicated it had gotten to the local PO, it was on my porch. Twelve days, end to end, arrived in reasonably good condition.
Thanks to all for your indulgence.

Once I get the new base built, and get the Governor loosened up a bit so it slows at idle, I’ll post something.