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I have a situation that is making me uncomfortable with an auction I ran to sell a pair of Altec 515's.I clearly stated that I only wanted to ship to the USA or Canada and the buyer has given me a NJ address of a travel agent (?) to ship the speakers to.
What has me nervous is that the payment (via paypal) is coming from a person in south Korea.
I am kinda bent about the extra $7.32 "cross border fee" assessed by paypal but also worried about a "chargeback" or some other hassle.
Mostly I just have a bad feeling about this deal...
Advice? Anyone?
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Alan Gallacher
Born to Tinker!
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Don't ship until you transfer the money to your bank. Document everything. Besure to get a tracking number and delivery reciept.
Though I have never sold on ebay, I have purchased much, and have noticed many warnings from sellers stating they will not ship to South Korea. I don't know if this is justified or not, but it would seem to me if you're limiting your sales areas, there must have been some bad transactions to that area.
On a deal I had, Paypal ship address was in CA. Buyer replies about three weeks later & states were are my items? I stated shipped. Buyer stated I am in Korea, not CA. Buyer threatened Paypal item not shipped BS. I filed with Square Trade & buyer backed off. I was lucky as I sent item USPS & I contacted paypal asking what my rights were. PayPal stated sorry, no protection as I did not have tracking plus buyer did not have a confirmed address.
is a must if there is a dispute later; and keep a record of all correspondence between you two
You should be OK; just because he isn't in the USA doesn't make him a bad buyer
The buyer went after me with it was being my fault I shipped to the address as listed on their Paypal account. I did not receive any message the buyer was in Asia nor charged postage for such to Asia.
The guy can be using a legitimate mail forwarding service. I do that from time to time when buying from paranoid US sellers (surprisingly many of them are on ebay and agon recently). In this case they send the stuff within US, and forwarding company re-pack it if needed and send to me here in Europe (I pay forwarding co. for their services). 100% legitimate, and good for buyers.Check the guy's feedback, try to call him, try to contact other sellers that sold him the stuff and ask their opinion. There is absolutely no need to become paranoid just because he is not from US.
Of course, there is always a chance of a scam, so you should be careful and use a normal common sense. To be on a 100% safe side, I would ask him to send you a wire transfer or a western union transfer (NOT a bidpay check, but a normal cash transfer). If you get the money fine - why should you care about the rest like HIS way to deliver goods back to his home country?
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Can you spell S C A M ?
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