At 01:31 AM 12/27/2005, you wrote:
Hi all,
I sold an ME Super and a P30 body to a man in
Mumbai and posted them the day after I got the
PayPal advice. They disappeared -- in Mumbai --
and he never got them. He complained to PayPal,
blaming me -- the implication being I had never
sent the package. Because of the arbitrary way
PayPal often handle these matters I sent him
another camera by registered post, this time
with a zoom lens, as compensation. Registered
priority postage cost me £30. After weeks and
weeks he finally managed to find the package in
the Post Office warehouse in Mumbai and had to
pay a total of 2376 Rupees which included a
substantial bribe, to get the camera. We have
exchanged about twenty emails since October.
After some time he retracted his complaint to
PayPal after realizing the fault lay with the
Mumbai Post Office and not me. But that doesn't
help me get any of the money back. Here's his
latest letter -- received a few minutes ago:
I sell a lot of stuff on Ebay and I've found that
I have to be very picky about which countries I
will sell to. I restrict my sales to the USA,
Canada, Europe and Australia just because of
situations like this and the fact that some
countries would require me to have a license. The
other option is to have them find a person in the
USA who will accept the package from you and take
the responsibility of getting it to them. I had a
sale to the Philippines where the person did that.
Gary J Sibio
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