posted on October 18, 2000 09:05:58 AM new
I have got a buyer here who wont pay using PayPal. He says he will pay once I get verified. I told him I am not getting verified because the first account I had, I had to worry. He won't budge. He is also wanting a $270 item insured for double that. In was sold as a minor defect item and I am smelling something odd going on here. This is the second time I have sold it and I am starting to go crazy.
posted on October 18, 2000 09:12:11 AM new
I can understand their reservations. Paypal tells buyers that they are not protected from fraud unless the seller is a verified user. If it were a few dollars, the no big deal, but for over $200.00 I'd probably ask the same thing.
As for the insurance. Once when I went to the post office to mail an item I asked the clerk how much I could insure it for because the buyer had only paid me $50, but I knew that if they had to buy a replacement it would cost them about $100. The clerk told me that I could insure it for the retail amount as long as I could provide evidence of the replacement cost.
posted on October 18, 2000 09:12:15 AM new
Do you REQUIRE PayPal, or do you offer alternatives like checks or money orders? It seems to me that you can't force somebody to use PayPal unless you've stated in your TOS that this is the only method of payment you will accept.
Don't insure for double value. You won't get it if the item is lost. I agree...this deal sounds funky.
posted on October 18, 2000 09:14:37 AM new
Take a money order. No double value on insurance unless he wants to pay an appraiser fee that would vouch for the value.
This sounds really fishy.
posted on October 18, 2000 09:57:53 AM new
I've had a couple people do that to me, too--refuse to make a PayPal payment because I wasn't verified.
On the insurance, insure it for what the customer wants, but make him pay for the insurance. Make a photocopy of the insurance slip (both sides), and send the original slip to him. Save the receipt that you get for paying for the postage and insurance. Then the ball is in his court--he can do whatever he wants.
posted on October 18, 2000 10:46:06 AM new
Yes I also take checks and money orders, but he says for me to get verified on paypal, then he'll pay. I never said in the ad I was verified, and Ebay has their own insurance anyway. Also, he contacted me before I even contacted him and was very upfront wanting to pay the extra shipping cost for the double UPS insurance. I can't take any more of this. Never had any problem until I got a load of catalog salvage electronics and cameras. 2/3 of buyers never come through and the rest seem to be con-men!
posted on October 18, 2000 10:50:21 AM new
Yup fishy.
I had a buyer wins 4 auctions several years ago, each for about $12.
She wanted me to pack separately and insure each for $50.
I balked, packed together and insured for what she paid.
She claimed the packaged never arrived. The ONLY time this has ever happened in 12-1500 deals.
Only thing I learned from this, is if I had insured for $51 she would have had to sign.
