In my experience the recipient gets a card in their letterbox to collect mail from the post office. When they go and collect it, they’re required to pay for the missing postage before they even get to see the item, let alone inspect it.
Source: eBay senders had a brief habit of doing this. I no longer buy from eBay.
If you buy on eBay they are required to send items with tracking. No tracking means you can just ask for a refund and you’ll receive it automatically since they can’t provide a tracking number. The major carriers also do rate adjustments if the seller tries to underpay for packages by listing the wrong weight. Unfortunately as a seller this also means that you have to watch for erroneous weight adjustments and contest them when they crop up. I think it happens when your package is sitting on top of another package when it goes under the automated photo system.
I’ve never had an issue with receiving a package from eBay and I buy and sell on there all the time. I had one package I shipped get lost, I had another I sent through eBays international forwarding service (Pitney Bowes) who said they wouldn’t forward it because of the materials in the item. It was not listed as a prohibited item and isn’t prohibited to ship internationally, I got to keep the money and the buyer got a refund.
My experience on eBay does not match yours. I have numerous times had packages not be delivered with the seller giving false tracking numbers, not responding, outright lying to eBay and as I said, not putting enough postage on the item. At one time there were honest sellers there, but it’s been overrun with scams and fraud, including listing the item location as being in a local warehouse, only to discover that this is a drop-ship location that is being fed by container from China.
I no longer use or trust eBay. My experience with eBay vs. PayPal is no better. There was a time when they worked together to resolve issues, but now they just point the finger at each other. I also don’t use PayPal any longer.
I think that only works if your intended receipient lives in the same city (specifically, very close to where you dropped off the mail).
Otherwise they look at the return address and its somewhere in San Francisco, but the mail has just been dropped off in a NYC post office, which would make zero sense, and they’ll know what you are trying to do.
Yeah but they’re saying it will still just go to the “to” address anyway and they have to pay postage.to get it The post office won’t send it to the return address.
In my experience the recipient gets a card in their letterbox to collect mail from the post office. When they go and collect it, they’re required to pay for the missing postage before they even get to see the item, let alone inspect it.
Source: eBay senders had a brief habit of doing this. I no longer buy from eBay.
If you buy on eBay they are required to send items with tracking. No tracking means you can just ask for a refund and you’ll receive it automatically since they can’t provide a tracking number. The major carriers also do rate adjustments if the seller tries to underpay for packages by listing the wrong weight. Unfortunately as a seller this also means that you have to watch for erroneous weight adjustments and contest them when they crop up. I think it happens when your package is sitting on top of another package when it goes under the automated photo system.
I’ve never had an issue with receiving a package from eBay and I buy and sell on there all the time. I had one package I shipped get lost, I had another I sent through eBays international forwarding service (Pitney Bowes) who said they wouldn’t forward it because of the materials in the item. It was not listed as a prohibited item and isn’t prohibited to ship internationally, I got to keep the money and the buyer got a refund.
My experience on eBay does not match yours. I have numerous times had packages not be delivered with the seller giving false tracking numbers, not responding, outright lying to eBay and as I said, not putting enough postage on the item. At one time there were honest sellers there, but it’s been overrun with scams and fraud, including listing the item location as being in a local warehouse, only to discover that this is a drop-ship location that is being fed by container from China.
I no longer use or trust eBay. My experience with eBay vs. PayPal is no better. There was a time when they worked together to resolve issues, but now they just point the finger at each other. I also don’t use PayPal any longer.
I think the scenario is you put your recipients address as the return address.
The post office has been alive longer than you or I. I suspect they’ve seen and dealt with anything you dream up.
I think that only works if your intended receipient lives in the same city (specifically, very close to where you dropped off the mail).
Otherwise they look at the return address and its somewhere in San Francisco, but the mail has just been dropped off in a NYC post office, which would make zero sense, and they’ll know what you are trying to do.
Yeah but they’re saying it will still just go to the “to” address anyway and they have to pay postage.to get it The post office won’t send it to the return address.