My recent return to Amazon.de was tracked all the way to delivery. USPS for $112. But Amazon.de paid up! For a $40 item...
The link from La Poste may be invalid as it has been delivered before a specified period of time.
Be careful with shipping across the border. Unless you ship via a carrier that provides tracking all the way to the destination, you can be screwed like I was.
The only service that would ship to China (at least then) was the US Postal Service. So off it went. A month later, the guy contacts me and says it never arrived. He had the tracking number, which showed tracking info, but the US post office doesn't operate inside China. They pass it over the border to China's postal system, with no tracking inside China. The USPS tracking stops at the border. Same going into Canada...passes to Canada Post with no tracking once it's inside Canada. UPS and Fedex operate inside Canada so they will provide tracking and proof of delivery.
I'll never ship anything outside the U.S. again unless I know who I'm shipping to, and proof of delivery is available.
Just so you know, at least on eBay, even if you specify no refunds, you are forced to refund if the item is "not as described", and you are also forced to refund for non-delivery. You don't even have a choice in it. They do the refund and charge it back to you, including shipping cost. Even if you can show proof of shipment, that's not good enough. It has to show as delivered in the tracking schedule.My rule is that I'll ship international but there's no refunds, especially if tracking shows it got to the point I was told to send it to. It's worked well so far, the only time someone has tried the "it never arrived" line was domestic.
I'll let you all theorize what happened in the case of my shipment.....but it sure seems ironic that the buyer was emailing me every couple hours and when I sent him the tracking detail with signature....I've heard no more. Zip...nada...zilch. Crickets........
I hear you....I do not plan to sell outside US again....unless I personally know someone. Just too stressful...and I got enough of that without adding more.Good. But for the casual seller like myself, the aggravation is not worth the time, effort and whatever few extra bucks made by agreeing to sell overseas.
I'll let you all theorize what happened in the case of my shipment.....but it sure seems ironic that the buyer was emailing me every couple hours and when I sent him the tracking detail with signature....I've heard no more. Zip...nada...zilch. Crickets........
Guess he either was attempting to get a refund and hope you wouldn't be able to provide proof of delivery to ebay, or he legitimately didn't receive it due to a misdelivery. Either way, you do have proof of delivery so you're covered.
Ebay is a buyers paradise. You can even play dumb and dishonest and if the seller doesn't have their ducks in a row, they're screwed! (Please don't be dumb and dishonest.)
Be thorough when selling!!
I think you'd have to coordinate with shipping services from multiple countries as mentioned to cover your butt for international shipping. And you'd have to pay for that! And it might not be possible for every country to get all the i's dotted and t's crossed enough to guarantee coverage.
If you can document putting it in the hands of a shipping service and if you pay for the insurance to cover replacement cost should they lose or destroy it, you're golden.
I've sold computers on Ebay before. I prefer selling locally instead! You need to document every internal component including secret hidden marks to ID things for the clowns that will remove the internal parts and replace them with broken ones and then claim it arrived DOA. You need to be able to point to the different parts when it ships back so you can say "Sorry, this isn't what I sent you. Please return the actual machine if you want to discuss this further. Please send prepaid postage if you want the different parts you sent to me returned to you."
PITA!
Just so you know, at least on eBay, even if you specify no refunds, you are forced to refund if the item is "not as described", and you are also forced to refund for non-delivery. You don't even have a choice in it. They do the refund and charge it back to you, including shipping cost. Even if you can show proof of shipment, that's not good enough. It has to show as delivered in the tracking schedule.
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