posted on January 9, 2008 04:25:13 PM new
I choose only to ship within the USA for the past couple of months to avoid stress.
I have blocked all International countries through Ebay preferences, as well as out of the country payments through PayPal.
I received this message from the winner yesterday:
"I bought your item and the Ebay told me that you did not´t accept my payment using PayPal. I live in Brazil. How can I pay you? I have two suggestions:
First - You accept my paypal payment using International Visa Credit Card.
Second - I send to you the money by mail".
He is registered on Ebay with an Airport address in Miami, Florida. His email address is @usp.br, which I googled to be The University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I responded to his email telling him I don't ship out of the country, and did not understand why PayPal blocked his payment and Ebay did not.
If he wanted me to send the item to the Florida address he has registered on Ebay, I would after he paid by an International Postal Money order.
If he wants me to send the item to Brazil, I will cancel the auction.
Haven't heard anything yet. I guess if I don't hear any thing more by 10 days, (toa for paying) I will cancel it.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Maybe a friend in Florida is allowing him to use his address or??
posted on January 9, 2008 04:28:24 PM new
what does his feedback look like/Also is he bidding on other items?
That Florida address could be a service he uses to consolidate his shipments.
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posted on January 9, 2008 04:32:16 PM new
NO...what he is doing is a disturbing trend in eBay that makes it harder to block buyers who are non-USA!
His "address" in MIAMI is really a re-mailer!
There are a ton of them in MIAMI, and I get hit with these all the time with my SCALES&BALANCES which I ship ONLY to USA & CANADA for a bunch of reasons...
What I have done in the past on EXPENSIVE orders that I just plain refuse to ship outside the US (thru MIAMI) is to contact eBay & explain this & they are very helpful...
posted on January 9, 2008 04:37:40 PM new
I forgot to insert that. He is new since November 7th, 2007 and has a rating of 100% with 14 feedbacks.
Is bidding on just a normal amount of like items.
posted on January 9, 2008 04:48:04 PM new
I just this minute received his answer. It seems ok. What do you think?
"My brother has a industry in Miami, FL and you can send the for there. I love your pens and I appreciate get them. I will contact my brother tomorrow morning in order to analyse the possibility to send a personal check drawn on a United States bank or a USPS Postal Money order to you.
posted on January 9, 2008 05:00:23 PM new
I had a customer do the same thing only it was through Texas. He lives in Mexico. I shipped to the Texas address after getting cash in the mail from him. No problem.
posted on January 9, 2008 05:12:00 PM new
personal check drawn on US bank or postal money order?
are you sure he is not from Nigeria?
Once I resurrected an email from my AOL spam folder,I was mad with AOL for placing such a valuable piece of email in my trash can,a business man from Malta wanted to place a 700 dolars order from my shop!
He sent me 2 USPS postal orders from UK,each is $975 dollars(the order is only 700 dollars),he asked me to deposit them in my bank account immediately and then remit the difference in either cashier check or western union.
He emailed me daily to see if I have received them ?
The postal orders feel thicker than the ones we get from post office,they have no water marks when you hold it against the light,so I called USPS fraud investigation,by then they have heard them all and just asked me to mail them to their office.
The name on the postal orders belonged to someone in GA so I googled and called him,he has an accent and claimed he knows nothing.
It was a waste of my time,I have the items all packed and ready to go.
As for personal checks drawn on US bank,what the Nigerians do is to take anyone 's personal check to their friendly local printer,and have them printed up a bunch of checks and start sending them out to you and me.
I hope your experience is better than mine,just be careful.
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posted on January 9, 2008 05:30:50 PM new
I hope so, too. It was only an $80.00 pen, so I will just do a lot of research and waiting on that check or money order before I send him the pen.
Thanks to all of you. You guys are my Ebay support system and I appreciate it.
posted on January 9, 2008 05:40:44 PM new
WHY don't I ship SCALES&BALANCES to MIAMI when I KNOW they are actually going to SO AMERICA, etc?
The BIG problem is that SCALES&BALANCES by their very nature (delicate electronic instruments) sometimes (approx DOA rate of 1%) arrive...DEAD!
For WITHIN US & CA, the return charges are awful, but not excruciatingly expensive...However, if the buyer is in BRASIL, and the scale arrives (via MIAMI) DOA, I morally am required to cover RETURN (BOTH WAYS...YIKES) shipping...THUS, I don't ship outside the USA & CA...
posted on January 9, 2008 08:32:05 PM new
If I recall what you said,you ask the factory to ship for you,so how do they return the item from Brazil?to you or to the factory??
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posted on January 9, 2008 09:24:25 PM new
My local bank will no longer accept USPS money orders. Too many folks falling for the aboved mentioned scam of $700 due and payment more then the amount due. No big deal for me I just take all money orders in with my shipping and they deduct them off the balance due.
I have shipped to Canadian customers that use US addresses.
He says that he is a professor can you google the Univ and verify that?
"I recall what you said,you ask the factory to ship for you,so how do they return the item from Brazil?to you or to the factory??"
But of course the DOA scale is returned to the two manufacturers or 1 vendor I use, & is replaced FREE...But, so WHAT? I still am obligated for the RETURN shipping from Elbonia or wherever, and that can cost a bundle...
OTOH: USA deliveries? The drop-shippers I use will do a NO-CHARGE call-tag exchange!
posted on January 10, 2008 07:08:22 AM new
I am just curious how you handle returns,thats all.
Davidsmom,
you can always ask for his brother 's 'industry' and look it up .
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posted on January 10, 2008 10:53:55 AM new
I GOOGLED HIS NAME AND SURE ENOUGH THIS IS WHAT CAME UP:
"Head and Full Professor of the Department of Technology, FAUUSP, Brazil. 3 ... [4] ROMÉRO, Marcelo de A".
He is telling the truth.
My return policy is case by case, with satisfaction guaranteed. However, I don't have to do many returns, but 99% of the returns are accepted with postage paid both ways.
A few threads ago I posted about a lady asking me to return a watch because her friend already had one. I said no, but she should sell it on Ebay again and use my pictures. She did just that, and gave a much better description than I did and wound up getting $90.00 more than she won it for. She started it at a penny and just wanted to get her money back.
She thanked me before she listed and sent me the link, as well.
We both exchanged great feedback and we were both happy.
"childrens do learn"