WARNING when BUYING or SELLING from USA Ebay Overseas

[SwiftDeath]

Originally Posted by flatout

Must be mistaken on this then, must be back luck I was having and a coincidence the only the boxes with that printed labels were messed up. I thought that the sellers who opt in have it for even domestic packages... but this seems to not be the case.

I just got unlucky then.

Yeah that's what I thought it might be

Just wanted to make sure you knew it was the sellers fault as then you can try to fix it

Having ebay as the shipper would worry me greatly

[HIPPEEDUDE]

Even though my package arried ok i am still not a champion of this service. I dont want my package to do a sightseeing tour of the US & Hawaii before it even gets here. I think in the end my package went to 20 different places from start to finish,usually its only about 5 or 6. Thats a big difference in handling. How would you know when it was damaged,at what point it was damaged & who damaged it if its going to so many places before as well as after their so called customs check. I still think this is another way for ebay to make more money off the sales of items more than provide a "helpfull" service

[flatout]

Originally Posted by HIPPEEDUDE

Even though my package arried ok i am still not a champion of this service. I dont want my package to do a sightseeing tour of the US & Hawaii before it even gets here. I think in the end my package went to 20 different places from start to finish,usually its only about 5 or 6. Thats a big difference in handling. How would you know when it was damaged,at what point it was damaged & who damaged it if its going to so many places before as well as after their so called customs check. I still think this is another way for ebay to make more money off the sales of items more than provide a "helpfull" service

And really when you lengthen the trip and double the amount of centers it passes through you are multiplying the chances of damage.

This is why I do not like UPS Ground because it sometimes (maybe always) literally travels the roads the whole way and gets handed of so many times. All those times are chances for it being dropped wrong, having the wrong packages put on top of it, it being lost, ect...

[Matt16]

I'm still avoiding anyone that ships using this service simply due to the amount of negative things I'm reading. Admittedly people who are unhappy are more vocal than those that aren't but like Karl and Flatout said any service that doubles or triples the amount of places your package has to go to, has to increase the chance of damage. This coupled with it being opened and repacked significantly decreases the chance of your parcel getting to you I one piece.

Originally Posted by Murtera

"For eBay Buyer Protection cases in which eBay determines that a GSP Item sold by you was damaged or not received by your Buyer, eBay will review the case to determine whether you or Pitney Bowes should be responsible for the damage or non-delivery. In general, you will be responsible under the eBay Buyer Protection policy for the loss of, or damage to, a GSP Item until it is accepted at the U.S. Shipping Center or if the item has been returned to you from the U.S. Shipping Center."

Basically, if it is the shipping centers fault, there is no fault to buyer or seller.

That's meaningless due to the opening line "Buyer Protection cases in which eBay determines". How often are Ebay going to put there hand up and say "yep, that's our fault"; it simply won't happen and with the lack of care Ebay has for it's sellers (yes, I have experienced this) they will be left footing the bill.

[8BitRager]

I'll go ahead and provide an answer as to why they do this.
Media Mail.
I worked in the post office for a short while a learned quite a bit. Media mail is classified as any form of digital content or digital players(mp3's, etc).

If a package is sent and is classified, by eBay, as Media Mail, whatever service gets the package to be shipped whether it be DHL, FED EX, UPS, or the USPS, Media Mail is ALWAYS opened to check for legitimacy. And unfortunately, in some cases, they need to go even further into these items to check. An example of that extreme would be a collectible game being put in a large collectors box that holds all of the collectible items.

Why do they check?
Media Mail is typically shipped FOR FREE from eBay. This doesn't include oversea's shipping. Many people try to flag their product as Media Mail to reduce the overall price and avoid shipping. This screws over a lot of companies. Believe it or not, the way things are going right now, the USPS(united States Postal Service(The Blue Eagle People)) will not be in existence any longer within the next 30 years because of the switch to digital in our modern day and because of discrepancies like this. I sympathize for the consumer; it sucks that a collectors Edition gets ripped open.

[Pop Alexandra]

I know they were below expectations a while back, but I don't have any complaint from nearly two years.
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