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msau4301 · ‎04-27-2022

Anyone ever have a buyer who changed their location/country in order to bid? I had buyer/bidder who was in Australia and couldn't bid, so they changed to a Canadian address, bid and won (three auctions), then changed their address back to Australia?! Is this allowed?? Also I haven't shipped to Australia for a few years now, anyone know if things are pretty good (mail wise??) Thanks!

msau4301 · ‎04-28-2022

Yes you are right, this probably would have been the smarter thing to do (and I have done that before) but I took a quick peak at the shipping calculator and saw tracking to Australia at 500 grams was $65 (versus Air Mail that I used of $27), I didn't think the extra $40 (well almost) was worth it and just crossed my fingers that with their 3000+ feedback hopefully they are trustworthy/honest and maybe he was just a little sneaky since he might have had the buying bug with all the blocks to Australia (including Canada Post and USPS) for quite a while. I'm not sure how long they've been opened back up. Only time will tell, next time (if there is one!) I will only use tracking from the get-go! Thanks for good advice!

38e_avenue · ‎04-28-2022

@femmefan1946 wrote:
No one shipment to the US was EVER lost.
Whether the shipment is lost or not, the question is "can you prove it". A scammer claiming Not Received wins the case if the shipment is not tracked.

As I said, NO ONE was EVER lost, so what are we talking here about? What scammer? What INR case?

Yes, I would probably win the INR case, but the buyer would be still able to leave a negative feedback,
No.
The loser in a dispute cannot leave feedback.

Are you sure? I would feel better if you can provide a link confirming what you say.

I had a lost tracked First Class to Georgia. ChitChats claims they shipped to the US,
Your dispute there is with chitchat.

What dispute? I wrote about the "magical tracking" in general, which - according to many - resolves all imaginable problems. No matter that was ChitChats, Canada Post, or BungaBungaExpress ...... it didn't work, the item just vanished.

BTW, according to my experience, fighting against a buyer (honest one, or a thief) never makes sense. I am selling cheap items - 20 to 50 USD, and I always prefer to refund, or send a replacement, and forget about the incident as quick as possible. Bad (or unlucky) buyers, postal failures, are an INTEGRAL part of our business. Who cannot understand it, should stop to sell online.

zee-chan-jpn-books · ‎05-02-2022

Well I do ship 90+% of my sales with untracked methods, but for ones that triggers a red flag in my mind (or over $100 unless it's a repeat buyer), I will only ship to them with trackable methods because I don't want to lose sleep over shipping it untracked. I'd rather lose that sale than to deal with the potential stress.

All of the INRs I have dealt with (which is like 4 out of 300 maybe?) are shipped untracked. Two to US, two to Europe, though they all happened over 3 years ago. I think total sales together was around $120 so it is still within the range that I can afford to "lose".