At the height of his shipping career he owned about 60 ocean-going vessels.

Venetian shipping had started to decline from about 1530—before the entry into the Mediterranean of large volumes of Dutch and British shipping—and was clearly outclassed by the end of the century.

Granted, they may have the best of intentions to answer a buyer's question about shipping or the product's condition when they get a minute, but by then it may be too late.