Long story short - vendor loses his shit and gets real defensive on chat and "rage refunds" us saying he's "nobodys whipping boy" (???) when we probe him about the tracking number on our Special Delivery NDD Guaranteed pack that we paid an extra £10 shipping for - needless to say this is not what we asked for.

His first excuse is that the "shipping team forgot" the order (???) (and then subsequently rants on about how amazing having 10k orders until his belt is) and they're very sorry, they'll add in an extra 2g for the trouble - "okay" I think, I'll give it another 24hrs.

Another 24rs pass and I check my order status - marked as "shipped" now. I ask again for tracking #, which *should* exist if the pack has been shipped - another excuse about the "vendor" and "shipping team" not communicating such info as "vendor" logs off at 2pm and it would be shipped after that time. To me this all looks real fish, especially as vendor feedback insinuates orders are flying in and out - all positive.It's also an annoying trait of DNM vendors to offer this <24hr service and not follow through with it, we didn't charge ourselves an extra £10 for regular 3/4 day post that costs maybe £1.

The point in this post you ask? We still want our pack (of decent enough size) and have opened another order with said vendor, although I suspect now he has some personal "problem" (for asking about tracking and why hes messing about???) with us there could be potential issues down the road - a spiteful selective scam or ignoring our order AGAIN (24hrs into new order and it's still "processing, btw)

I have decided to hold the name drop until there's definite suspicion of an issue with this next order but what I will say is that I thought Monopoly were using "alternative and vigorous vendor screening" (your own words) to weed out potential problems between them and yourselves and them and the customer - I just don't see how this is acceptable behaviour.