[meteorite-list] I will no longer ship to Italy using paypal

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:37:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <334575.42397.qm_at_web56114.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

I think the word "lately" dont belong in farmers
email. I always have problems with Italian postal
service. Interestingly I have a problem one this
morning that is supposedly lost that I mailed 6 weeks
ago and have had 3 customers inniating paypal
chargebacks from Italy (100% of my total) in the past
3 or 4 months - mostly for stamps.
Quite a few people will not ship to Italy. Maybe you
could say "Fed Ex only". I have been toying with the
idea of refusing to send shipments to Italy but I have
the occasional customer in Italy and two very good
ones who will pay for fed ex shipping.
Is there any way on ebay to block bidders from italy
but then allow individual bidders on a case by case
basis? Maybe I shoudl ask the ebay powerseller people
that question.
Cheers
DEAN
www.meteoriteshop.com



--- michael cottingham <mikewren at gilanet.com> wrote:

> YES. Over the last year the Italian postal service
> has caused much mayhem
> and madness for me. I wonder if we have the same
> buyers making the same
> claims? Same scams going down or just an extremely
> corrupt postal service in
> Italy? I hate to lump the whole Italian Postal
> Service into a toilet
> category, but NO other postal service has even come
> close to being so
> corrupt.
> The next worse in my experience is the GERMAN
> CUSTOMS, who sometimes hold on
> to packages for months! They don't seem to be
> corrupt, just after every
> penny they can get for customs duty. They are very
> slow sometimes.
>
> I too have thought about not sending to Italy
> anymore.
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Michael Cottingham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]
> On Behalf Of Michael
> Farmer
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:09 PM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] I will no longer ship to
> Italy using paypal
>
> List members, I don't know about others, but myself
> and Robert Ward have both been ripped off by
> paypal/Italian buyers lately.
>
> In the last few months, I have had 5 ebay items lost
> on the way to Italy and claims filed, where paypal
> took my money automatically.
> I will no longer ship anything to Italy using
> paypal,
> any orders from Italy must be paid for with cash or
> international postal money order. Then I will ship,
> so
> that if the items are stolen by corrupt Italian
> postal
> workers, that is not my problem.
>
> This has become so common, that either all packages
> to
> Italy are stolen, or Italian ebay buyers are on to
> the
> paypal scam and get the items, then claim refunds.
> Anyone else having this problem lately?
> Michael Farmer
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