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What do you do when you never receive your package? —Frank Filz

I'm in a bit of a quandry. I won an auction several weeks ago from an eBay seller, and have not yet received the package. I have been communicating with the seller this week, and now he is offering to send me the items again, if I pay a portion of (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Rick Hallman

(...) Not good, my opinion... (...) This doesn't count. It just means he isn't using a accepted ISP on ebay. If u put in an AOL account it waives the credit-card number information, because you have AOL, and it get's technical from there. Same with (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —John Hadd

(...) Frank, Ater many conversations with my local Post Office over the last one and a half years, They have told me over and over: If you pay for an item and do not receive it, You do not have to pay for it. End of story. I have also been told over (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Richard Marchetti

All of John's advice seems very sound to me. I have tried to be cooperative with sellers, but it's true that the onus is on them to show proof of mailing however much they may try to shift that burden onto the buyer with a variety of disclaimers. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —John Hadd

(...) Yes, That is one thing that really bugs me, The seller who says I will not be responsible for items that are lost or damaged. Go ask your local Postal Inspector if that claim is true, It's not. (...) I should have been more clear in my first (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Rich Manzo

(...) Why is this? Let me see if I understand- Buyer pays me for item x and does not want insurance or any other service. I ship out the package and it never arrives. How is it my fault that the buyer did not want these services? I dont understand (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —John Hadd

(...) I can't explain the governments logic because I find a lot of what it does to be illogical. But let's say you pay your credit card by mail and the CC company never receives it or cashes the check, you still get charged a late fee, right? They (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Christopher Lindsey

(...) That does bring up one of my pet peeves. So many people send things requiring a signature on delivery without letting me know (I don't know if Delivery Confirmation falls into this category or not). Anyhow, they would tell me that a signature (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —John Radtke

(...) Here, here! Same thing goes for when people ship UPS without any warning. John (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Bianca Nebab

A mail carrier in another newsgroup clued me in to the mysteries of d.c. and insurance earlier this year after some misfortune with the USPS I ran into. He told me that d.c. was designed for the benefit of the sender, as proof that a package was (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Frank Filz

The most recent case of a Postal employee discarding mail was here in Durham NC. Fortunately he got caught. In that instance, most of the mail was mail which was supposed to be forwarded or returned to sender. Your story about the delivery (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Rob Doucette

"Rich Manzo" <Brickfan25@aol.com> wrote in message news:G24B19.IIL@lugnet.com... (...) not be (...) not (...) dont (...) Employees at my local Post Office were very surprised (and confused) to hear that there were 2 Irelands listed at 2 different (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Rob Doucette

"john hadd" <limitup@ameritech.net> wrote in message news:G23A16.65K@lugnet.com... (...) eBay (...) with (...) if I (...) one and (...) do (...) been (...) register (...) You (...) that (...) insure (...) demand (...) the (...) way, I (...) Regards (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —John Hadd

(...) >> big snip> (...) I don't have a problem with a seller not wanting to Insure an Item, but the seller is still responsible to deliver the item. Giving the buyer the option does not get the seller out of it. I just add it to the shipping (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Ray Sanders

(...) Until I read this, I have always given the buyer the option to insure or not insure domestic parcels, international I always require insurance. I'm beginning to wonder if I should require insurance on all parcels. Ray Sanders lugnetter #124 (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Rob Doucette

(...) I disagree as long as I can show (mostly through e-mail dialogue) that there was an agreement that burden of liability is on the buyer AND I can show proof of shipment (USPS, UPS receipt). If liability for lost/damage is clearly communicated (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I'm with Rob on this which is why I disclaim liability as a seller and require delivery conf, it's not an option for my sales. Further, if the buyer buys insurance, my liability is extended only to the point where I am now requiring myself to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Richard Marchetti

Rob, Lar: I don't disagree with any of what you fellows have been stating. If you want to sell stuff and refuse responsibility for items damaged in the mail and state this up front to the buyer, no problem. If you want to include a proof of mailing (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Frank Filz

(...) One thing I should have pointed out is that he did offer insurance and delivery confirmation but I didn't take them (however, he also didn't expresslely say that I took all responsibility if I declined). I do think it's kind of silly for (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) delivery (...) I think that's the implication. If you decline to request delivery conf, you are at least implicitly saying you will take the sellers word for it. I know, that's not good enough for the IRS, but it is for most sellers. Hence I (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Steve Chapple

(...) Envelopes - padded or otherwise - just don't cut it for LEGO shipping. The ziploc inside lessens the danger, but it's still not good enough. I RX'd three packages last week. Two were in padded envelopes, one of which managed to survive, but (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Larry Pieniazek

In lugnet.market.shipping, Steve Chapple writes: <snipped good advice> (...) Disagree. 3.5 diskettes are not solid. I have received a damaged one in a padded envelope that apparently was lying somewhere spanning a gap and took an point end in the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Frank Filz

(...) Padded envelopes can work if an extra layer of bubble wrap is put around the bag of parts. An interesting twist which seems to work fairly well. I have now received several packages from overseas where an unopened set has been wrapped in (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Kevin Wilson

(...) Lego coming into Canada is duty-free too, but strictly you get charged GST on it. Whether Canada Post bothers to collect that sometimes depends on the size of the shipment and other times seems to be quite random. Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —James Brown

(...) I've noticed lately (last 2-3 months?) that everything coming from the US has been tagged for GST. Have any other Canucks noticed this, or it is "pick on James" month at Canada Customs? James (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Kevin Wilson

(...) Hasn't happened to me recently... it's definitely you they are after, James :-) Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Park: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Steve Chapple

(...) Maybe it's just us Albertans - the feds don't like that we don't have a provincial sales tax. :-) Seriously, I suspect it's because Kevin's stuff is below Cdn$50 in value and is coming from a private individual who is correctly taking the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —James Brown

(...) Most of the packages I receive are person-to-person and in the $20-$40 range. When I talked to my mailman last week, he agreed with me that there seemed to be a much larger group of packages getting tagged by Customs recently. <shrug> Maybe (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Frank Filz

(...) Check out: (URL) keeps popping up every once in a while. Todd - could you transfer that info to something on the news.lugnet.com/market/shipping page (or is news.lugnet.com/market/theory better?)? (I guess I could FTX it and then you could add (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Good pointer Frank, but you forgot to add the important point that if you go there and look at the tariff schedule, Steve, you will find that there is indeed no duty. It so happened that I went through US customs with a Dell server box full of (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Ray Sanders

(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) OK, I did some calling around. I can get 4x6x2 corrugated cardboard mailers for about 40-cents each (100 qty). Do these sound sufficient ? Is that size too small for typical parts sales ? Ray Sanders #124 (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: Envelopes are NOT enough (was Re:...never receive your package? —Scott Edward Sanburn

To All, Well, I use bubble mailers with ziplock snack size bags for most of my shipments, I switched over to Priority mail for obvious reasons with the small boxes now (VBery good of ther postal service to have this, IMO), but I have had no (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Rob Doucette

"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:G25o87.Lyx@lugnet.com... (...) SNIP (...) must (...) Agreed, these are points I stated, although not directly. (...) My initial reply was not in response to Frank, it was in response to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —John Hadd

(...) Well, To me, the whole shipping thing is the most complicated and vague of all the selling and trading issues, a lot of unknowns and unproveables. I do not think that you can transfer the liability to the buyer, maybe in writing with the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Rob Doucette

"john hadd" <limitup@ameritech.net> wrote in message news:G265sq.9yz@lugnet.com... (...) of all (...) YES, YES, YES!! (...) with (...) would (...) and I (...) I agree/concede (without checking) that this is the official policy/law of the USPS, but I (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Michael Pratt

(...) Yes indeed, in the UK it is possible to get proof of posting for no extra cost. But for a sellers reputation I think the loss has to be made up. Michael Pratt (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

Re: What do you do when you never receive your package? —Frank Filz

Well, sometimes sad stories have happy endings. I received the package today (fortunately I was holding out until tomorrow to send more money). It arrived safely, with a September 25 postmark on the Post Office printed "stamp". It was mailed in a (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)