Quoted from rockwell:Unless this was explicitly laid out in some sort of order confirmation email, nobody would ever understand that to be the case. A shipment notification means (or should mean) that your item has shipped, or is prepped for shipping and on the verge of pickup/dropoff (ie a day or two). A shipment notification that doesn't mean that is a mismanagement of customer expectations. And why people come here hunting for answers.
Do you not buy online much?
A tracking number being created means just that - it's been created. Which means a shipment has been created - it doesn't mean it's been shipped.
What you describe is your expectation based on most people not creating shipments until they are actually shipping the package. Unfortunately that is not how all vendors operate and it's quite common (and annoying) when they do this early creation - but it's common.
Buy from overseas and see just how abused that practice really is...
