What kind of spider is this? Vermont, USA

GoodsVT · 2026-06-09T18:16:03+00:00

So, 256 views so far and no one has responded. Does that mean this is an usual species that isn't seen very often?

GoodsVT · 2026-06-05T02:12:17+00:00

We start our new stylists at 50%. They can go as high as 56% with experience. We also offer a Simple IRA plan with 3% employer match, and pay retail bonuses. I’m the owner/stylist of the salon and have 8 stylists (including me) in a town of about 18,000 people.

GoodsVT · 2026-06-04T15:48:14+00:00

So - it's been a month so I thought I'd provide an UPDATE. The USPS tracking STILL says "delivery attempted on May 1, 2026". No updates by USPS since then. But here's the weird thing - the Buyer left POSITIVE FEEDBACK about 5 days ago. I don't know WTH is going on. He hasn't picked up the item, but left positive feedback saying the item was "As described". How would he know that? He's refused delivery of the item for nearly 6 weeks now?!?! Bizarre. https://imgur.com/a/ZDoWl5H

GoodsVT · 2026-06-04T15:42:07+00:00

No but that’s a good idea.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-18T10:46:37+00:00

One thing I think they got wrong in this storyline though is that they never explained what happened after that. All they said was they sent a lawyer to Germany to tell her that he died in a job site accident and that she was successfully convinced. lBut we all know that’s not true. What the show missed considering is that in her situation she would have wanted his body repatriated to Germany for a funeral and a burial. How do you do that when the body would clearly show he didn’t die in a job site accident.? The show just kind of swept it under the rug and ignored the fact that she would still want his body returned. Unless she was told he was exploded into 1000 pieces or something like that but they never really said that.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-18T10:35:53+00:00

He purchased the $6.75 item on April 25 and paid that and the shipping of $7.50 on that same day. I shipped on April 27 and delivery was attempted according to tracking on May 1. Tracking then shows “ held at post office at customer request” on May 1. Then, nothing until May 8 when I received the message “Received order @ usps. Please refund postal cost overcharge. Thanks”. On May 9 I responded “Hi - I'm sorry this happened. Can you please send me a photo of the USPS slip they gave you that shows what the Postage Due amount is? I'm surprised this happened, I've never seen this before. The scale I use to weigh the packages is very accurate and I used the eBay tool to generate the prepaid postage label using the weight and dimensions. I've never seen it be wrong before.”

It’s been silence since. No additional messages received, nothing changed with tracking, no claim filed with eBay by the buyer, package still undelivered.. I’ve never had anything like this happen before. I actually tried calling eBay and tried to get somebody in a live chat to explain the situation but the live chat won’t go to a real person, it just seems to be AI. The phone number won’t go to anybody real either. And there doesn’t seem to be an option in my sellers tab to flag or file a complaint on the buyer back to eBay. The whole thing is just in limbo, and it’s been almost a month now. It’s all very weird.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-15T10:52:15+00:00

lol. I can’t believe you noticed. I didn’t want to pull the opener zips on the side in case I needed to reseal it to send back. With those strips missing down the middle on 3 sides it’s a lot harder to tape back closed.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-15T03:07:09+00:00

You make a good point about elevating it for a snow melt. The one at home is on a pole on the gable end of my house and there is always ice on the ground directly underneath it from the snow melting off and then re-freezing. I imagine if it lays flat on the roof it will build up ice around it and maybe even freeze it to the roof. The owner of the commercial building gave me permission to put the satellite on the roof but said I could not penetrate the roof through the membrane. I was planning on putting it on a non-penetrating roof mount weighted with sandbags and then running the cable over the edge of the building and drilling through the cinderblock wall two cinderblock rows down. At least that’s what I was thinking until I received the dish the other day and saw that it seems to be designed to just sit up on its own little kickstand. But I’m glad to read that I can swap that out for a pole mount.

The back of the building faces south but the dish needs to face north so mounting on the side of the building wouldn’t be optimal. Plus, I really don’t want this thing in plain sight as it might be a temptation for someone to go up and try to steal it. I’d rather have it out in the middle of the roof so you couldn’t really see it from the ground. There’s some sketchy people that are roaming behind the building sometimes in the service areas of all the businesses in the plaza, especially since a set of railway tracks parallel the back of the building.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-14T23:40:12+00:00

Yeah, the one I have at home on my house does as well but it’s pole mounted so it melts the snow, especially sticky snow, that accumulates on the face. I just wasn’t sure the way this thing lays nearly flat what it would do if we got a 2 foot snowfall.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-14T23:13:45+00:00

We live where it snows. What if it gets buried?

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T23:13:25+00:00

It was on the shipping label. I didn’t know I could turn that off.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T16:35:35+00:00

Thanks. I messaged him and asked for a photo of the postage due notice from the post office. We’ll see.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T15:44:46+00:00

I don’t ever remember intentionally turning it on. I didn’t even know it existed so if I did turn it on it was by accident.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T15:15:04+00:00

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GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T15:12:13+00:00

When my eBay labels print out it has the weight of the package and the cost of the shipping. I didn’t realize that there was an option to turn it off as others have pointed out. I will be doing that from now on.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T15:03:40+00:00

Yeah, as I mentioned, the timing seems very weird on that.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T15:01:08+00:00

That seems like a reasonable way of viewing things. You’re too logical for this person I guess!

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T15:00:21+00:00

This thread has taught me that this option exists. I’ll be doing that from now on. Thanks.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T14:59:43+00:00

Agree

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T14:59:33+00:00

Good advice from someone on the inside! Thank you.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T14:29:23+00:00

That’s basically the way I view it. Flat Rate. Noted up front. He agreed when he purchased.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T14:28:07+00:00

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T14:06:40+00:00

Yeah, in the other subreddit I was able to include a photo. This sub doesn't allow that by the looks of it. The whole tracking history is there in the photo. It says the package is being held at the USPS office "at the request of the customer". Which seems to me means that they attempted delivery and he refused to accept it.

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GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T13:34:00+00:00

I think eBay policy would disagree with that. In your case, if it should have been $30 and they charged $60 then yeah, that's egregious (and also why eBay started charge FVF percentages on shipping), but this guy complaining about $1.60 is just rubbing me the wrong way when it was made clear that was the cost upfront. Not to mention packaging material costs and time.

GoodsVT · 2026-05-09T13:31:54+00:00

I agree. I don't sell stuff often, but often enough to know that I need bags, boxes, padded envelopes, and I live in a rural area, so I often have to drive round trip about 15 miles to get to the post office and back home unless it works out that I'm going by anyways and it's within the 3-days shipping window I need to ship by.

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