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khenry
On the day that Ebay’s new feedback system came in, the full effects haven’t been realised - I’ll find out after these next auctions are fully completed, as well as the one that I have to list tonight.
However, buyers not confirming their addresses did cause a bigger problem today, if not a new one. Sending items to unconfirmed addresses in the earlier days of Ebay caused items to be returned uncollected from delivery offices, as winners wouldn’t bother to pick them up. That happens less often now and seems to have been stamped out by sellers keeping the money and selling to someone other than the first winner.
However, if you understand English enough to read an auction from outside the UK and bid on it and win it, you should be able to select the Paypal option to confirm an address. It’s his loss anyway as I’m not posting abroad until he confirms. It’s only a minor issue and I do have to go out tomorrow, so stopping at the Post Office again isn’t a problem, it just didn’t need to happen with my first return to Ebay as a seller since New Year.
Despite seeing that Ebay’s a good way to offset my upgrade costs by flogging old hardware from the dead machines, I did miss a trick last month - one-and three day auctioneers of Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 made over £20 profit on the RRP - even if they sent the games by Special Delivery, final bid prices hit £55 to £62.
You seem to miss the point of confirmed addresses.
If you send to an unconfirmed address and the buyer claims he did not recieve the item he will be able to make a paypal claim against you even if you have proof of postage because you sent the item to an unconfirmed address.
You negate your protection with paypal. Always send to a confirmed address even if that means waiting for the buyer to confirm it.
Don’t worry, the package is sitting here by my monitor, and I’ll check Paypal again to see whether he confirmed when I told him to last night. It’s going nowhere until he does, that leaves me one more posting day this week.