Not to defend an obviously lousy seller but I don't think it matters who
insures the item. When I ship items I don't buy the USPS insurance,
however, if a customer doesn't receive the item, I ship them a new one. I
self-insure...but don't charge extra for it. My shipping charge is usually
@ $1 more than actual postage, but, again, I am insuring the shipment
myself.
Safety Fast!
Gordie Bird
'62 MGA
'67 MGBGT
>
> So last week, in our ebay rantings. I was telling
> about trouble I was having.
>
> I finally opened a dispute with ebay on the game boy
> thing I bought for my kids, on Friday.
>
> Saturday, it showed up in the mail. After he said that
> it had shipped the previous week, it was post marked, Feb 5.
>
> On Tuesday, I think it was, I sent him mail saying that I
> thought he should run a trace on it, since I paid for insurance.
> I got no reply.
>
> On Thursday, I got his phone number from ebay and tried calling
> him several times. Never answered. And he gets mail, when you
> request a phone number.
>
> One of those things must have lit a fire under him, since he shipped
> it Thursday.
>
> Is there a way to tell if insurance is paid for on an item from the Post
> Office? It should be a yellow tag right? Didn't have one.
>
> Friday, I opened the dispute. He never answered it. Probably because he
> knew he finally shipped it, 2 weeks after I paid for it. And he still
> pocketed the insurance. $2.
>
> Being the sap I am, I gave him neutral feedback with a comment of very
> slow shipping. Funny thing is, on the invoice, he's giving me Free
> Shipping on my next order. Like there's going to be one.
>
> My kids' are happy. The e-reader thing is fun. They wanted it to swip in
> some Pokemon cards to their game cube game. But it also came with the
> entire Donkey Kong Jr card from my, I guess, college days. Five little
> magnetic strips are all that entire arcade game is reduced to. It
> appears to be the full game.
>
>
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