[Premium-Rx] [Boatanchors] eBay scam?

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi:

World wide I ship over a thousand packages a year, but they typically weigh a few ounces.

When shipping USPS First Class Airmail International there is no tracking or insurance so no way to know if the buyer 
received the package hence this is not an approved eBay shipping method. But outside of eBay many buyers choose it 
knowing they are gambling.. So it needs to be clear that if the buyer does not receive the package he's out what he 
paid.  For small packages the shipping cost is about $13.

When shipping USPS Priority International using a small flat rate box you get tracking and insurance for a shipping cost 
of about $26.  This is an approved eBay shipping method.

The eBay shipping option (I get paid to ship to Kentucky) is somewhere in between the above two options.  You get 
tracking and insurance for less shipping cost than Priority mail.

In all three of the above options the customs form, shipping label and postage are all on one sheet of paper you tape to 
the package.
http://www.prc68.com/I/Stamps.shtml#IFCLwPC

Now I only use stamps for letters and CDs and it's very uncommon to stand in line at the post office.  I think because 
the USPS has made deals with companies like Stamps.com that the USPS does not allow you to print postage on common 
envelopes.  Note that with Stamps.com and the sheets of blank stamps with the magic ink you can print just a stamp, i.e. 
print cash, but at a price.  But when printing labels that have the from and to address on them there's no need for the 
magic ink or special forms since there's no cash value, so is very possible, but just not allowed for what I'm thinking 
are political reasons to print envelopes.  I forcast that will change and we'll be printing first class envelopes in the 
not too distant future.

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Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html
http://www.prc68.com/I/DietNutrition.html
Michael Bittner wrote:
> My one experience with the Global Shipping Program was not good.  A buyer in Australia won one of my items on eBay.  
> The shipping charge shown to him during the bidding process, and to other international bidders, was to a GSP shipper 
> in Kentucky. eBay prevented me from sending him an invoice, saying that it would be automatically sent to him by the 
> GSP shipper.  The invoice that the GSP shipper sent to him included the cost of the item, the shipping charge from me 
> to KY and an extra charge for shipping from KY to Australia. This latter charge was more than the USPS charge for 
> shipping the item directly from me to the buyer.  The buyer withheld payment and filed a complaint with eBay.  We 
> finally settled the issue by dropping the GSP and the buyer agreeing to pay me directly via PayPal for shipping 
> directly from me to Australia via USPS international first class package.
>
> 1.  The shipping charge shown to international buyers was, at least misleading, in that it did not show the total 
> shipping charge.  This was unfair to prospective bidders.
>
> 2.  The total shipping charge via the GSP was more than the charge for shipping via USPS.
>
> 3.  The only advantage to the seller, that I can see, is that he doesn't have to fill out the customs forms.
>
> Mike, W6MAB
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> To: "'Howard Ritter'" <hlritter at bex.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "'National Radio Equipment'" 
> <national at mailman.qth.net>; <Premium-Rx at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 7:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] eBay scam?
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>
>> Look into the eBay Global Shipping program where they handle the customs issues, etc.  It must be shipped to an 
>> eligible country.  Read about it here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/shipping-globally.html
>>
>> Tom K3TVC
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