Re: [CR] cautionary tail about ebay and paypal

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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:35:21 -0800
From: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, KRISTER KATSOGIANNOS <katten@msn.com>
In-Reply-To: <BLU137-W527C7133D1332F7180D721C4CB0@phx.gbl>
Subject: Re: [CR] cautionary tail about ebay and paypal


I have never had any problems with USPS, except for the last time. I shipped a post to a guy in the UK, USPS first class international. It is tracked until it leaves the US. The guy was a bit confrontational from the beginning then a week after I shipped he started sending me emails saying he hadn't received the item and telling me to advise him and wanted to see a copy of the receipt. I asked him to just wait and scanned the receipt and emailed it to him. He waited a while then filed a claim with paypal and after their "investigation" they took the money for the item plus the $18 for shipping out of my account. The guys own auctions stated he wouldn't be responsible for lost items if the buyer didn't specify insured and tracked shipping.
>From this point on it's expensive completely tracked shipping outside of the US as a requirement.

Jeff Piwonka
Austin, Texas, USA.


--- On Tue, 1/27/09, KRISTER KATSOGIANNOS wrote:


> From: KRISTER KATSOGIANNOS <katten@msn.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] cautionary tail about ebay and paypal

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 10:16 AM

\r?\n> This might be of interest to the list members that sometimes

\r?\n> sell our belov

\r?\n> ed vintage bike parts to other enthusiasts all over the

\r?\n> world. As a seller

\r?\n> using ebay and paypal you have to take the full

\r?\n> responsibility for the tran

\r?\n> saction (this includes not giving the buyer the option to

\r?\n> select the type o

\r?\n> f shipping desired), for your own protection you can not

\r?\n> offer a shipping

\r?\n> option without tracking as stated by paypal ,otherwise you

\r?\n> will be at a

\r?\n> loss if the buyer claims they never received the package

\r?\n> real or not . Havi

\r?\n> ng a scanned copy of the postal recite of the the day the

\r?\n> item was shipped

\r?\n> including the country and the weight and the shipping cost

\r?\n> does not count f

\r?\n> or anything As a seller on ebay I have sold things al over

\r?\n> the world and ne

\r?\n> ver really had any problems , shipping to Japan most buyers

\r?\n> do specifical

\r?\n> ly not want any other option then basic airmail. The item

\r?\n> shipped was sent

\r?\n> to Italy , I guess I should have observed the occasional

\r?\n> caution that I

\r?\n> have seen from other sellers not to send to Italy. You

\r?\n> think that the if yo

\r?\n> u offer the buyer the option of basic shipping or insured

\r?\n> shipping and they

\r?\n> select the uninsured shipping they are knowingly taking a

\r?\n> gamble and shoul

\r?\n> d be responsible for their own actions, but apparently not

\r?\n> so. It would b

\r?\n> e interesting to hear of other people experiences Krister

\r?\n> KatsogiannosSan A

\r?\n> ntonio TX