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Accepted Solutions
"Will ebay and paypal protect me as a seller"
NO.
It is your legal responsibility as a seller to get the goods to the buyer, on eBay and elsewhere.
Losses in the mail do happen from time to time and should be considered a "cost of doing business" by sellers. If you cannot afford those occasional losses, selling by mail may not be for you.
Basic premise of law is that people cannot sign away their individual rights.
ALL international shipping, from any country is hideously expensive when you start with the add-ons. Signature and tracking are not required. They are needed in the event of a dispute. In 8,700 sales that has come into play, once.
What Pierre is alluding to, is risk tolerance. My risk tolerance is very high. I do not buy insurance. I do not buy tracking. I do not buy signature. I sleep just fine. I also have an extra $11,000 in my pocket based on cost number someone posted.
"Will ebay and paypal protect me as a seller"
NO.
It is your legal responsibility as a seller to get the goods to the buyer, on eBay and elsewhere.
Losses in the mail do happen from time to time and should be considered a "cost of doing business" by sellers. If you cannot afford those occasional losses, selling by mail may not be for you.
Basic premise of law is that people cannot sign away their individual rights.
ALL international shipping, from any country is hideously expensive when you start with the add-ons. Signature and tracking are not required. They are needed in the event of a dispute. In 8,700 sales that has come into play, once.
What Pierre is alluding to, is risk tolerance. My risk tolerance is very high. I do not buy insurance. I do not buy tracking. I do not buy signature. I sleep just fine. I also have an extra $11,000 in my pocket based on cost number someone posted.
More so. There is the concept of business and personal. Far too many people make eBay personal. Thus, they are not in business for themselves.
There is a mix of metaphors here, but, Pierre and I do not take eBay home with us. We leave it at work. Most of the regular posters, here, "leave it at work".
There is a mix of metaphors here, but, Pierre and I do not take eBay home with us. We leave it at work. Most of the regular posters, here, "leave it at work".
Mindset. Interesting word. Mine changes.
Ten years ago it was a pocket money giggle. That morphed into a money making hobby. I was ahead on money, if not on time. Couple years later I started to real "give 'er" and started making real money to pay off bills. That lead to the last four years of self employed income. That has since changed to supplementary income as my life has moved to a different stage.
At different times it was a giggle, fear, panic, determination, an escape, business. The giggle was fun. Like a new car, perhaps a new relationship. Now it is just something I do, SOMETIMES. It is not all the time. This is why I keep it downstairs behind a door. Many people, it takes over their entire living space.
Being downstairs behind a door, i have compartmentalized it . In that space it is an active part of my life. Move out of that space, close the door, and it is behind me.
