Got to Love Some Buyers
Here's a message I received following a recent sale:
"Please use airmail. Please do not make customs declaration or use registered post. Thankyou "
"Please use airmail. Please do not make customs declaration or use registered post. Thankyou "
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I sure would like to block buyers like this.
"Parcel rates for shipments outside the United States are per the Universal Postal Union. Customs forms are used on all shipments outside the United States."
Without a customs form on the package, the post office won't even accept the mail piece.
- Andrew: thank you
- Carol, I have been considering telling foreign buyers to "stuff it", but I know that there are many more good people out there than people like this who have no moral values regarding asking someone to violate the law so that they too can violate the law. Of course if the package was to get confiscated, the buyer will file a complaint with PayPal that he never got the package and I'll be out the stamps and money. The past several international sales I have had have resulted in buyers complaining to me about the postage rates, and now the taxes that they have to pay. Their taxes are NOT my problem. To me, this buyer is a thief.
I will seriously consider closing down (again) all international sales from my store. If I do, I will never sell internationally again, which used to account for 1/3 of all my sales. If I do continue international sales, I think I will charge a shipping fee of $100. That is designed to dissuade people outside the US from buying from me, but I will offer it to those who really want to buy from me.
Then you have to go through the process of getting the negative removed. And in one case I had the same customer do this drill 3 times in succession..... why I do not bother with international sales anymore,
and grant an exemption from duty if your consignment is under I.Rs.5000 [ $ 70 ? ].
All the consignor needs to do is mark the parcel as:
ITEMS COVERED & EXEMPT FROM DUTY under I.C.&E .Tariff Head # 97040020
I can better understand all colonial history thus, myself.
This is who we've been.
In India, stamps are issued for CURRENT events / topics as well...[ visit my page ]
ALSO, wasted on commemorating myriad LOCAL HEROES / personalities whom
very few people know even in our country.
Recently, someone in the hierarchy decided to limit the print quantity of each issue to
3 million directly from 30 million that was the norm.
They have come back to 5m/6m but that too is a very small quantity, i reckon.
A few bad fish contaminate the entire pond - Old Proverb
Unfortunately, our hobby suffers from the same phenomenon.
In one of my online forays, i specifically mention this as such:
Please DO NOT BID unless you AGREE with ( my ) CONDITIONS
and
4 years @ Listia, have FORCED ME to join the grouchy LISTIANS* who block at the drop
of a hat ;-) BUT, i promise to be discreet.
A refund bundled with "Contact Disabled" is reserved EXCLUSIVELY for the clever, black
sheep members [ ^^ 5 till date ] who try to exploit the system.
Don't like to but do i have any choice left ?.
^^
Do not worry - I will not "name you to shame you" L-0-L
ANOTHER LINE i add is:
Bidders are requested to introspect BEFORE bidding. PLEASE !
I leave the bad eggs in no doubt that if they misbehave again, they CAN BE unmasked.
Fortunately, this has stemmed the cases of cheating & larceny...
Kitty