Mailing high-priced cards--what do you do?
tcbphd
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If you have sent cards valued over $500, how do you do it? Do you feel like you can go into a post office, insure a package for $800 and walk away with confidence? If you put a claim in on a slabbed card that gets lost in the mail, will you really get the $800?
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Use Signature Confirmation, or Restricted Delivery. (Make sure it is "online viewable," if you accept PayPal or Credit Cards.)
Insure up to your comfort level.
If it's over $1000 sometimes I will ship it overnight...the only time I have spent the extra $9 for registered is overseas.
<< <i> Fed-Ex overnight >>
That is also a better method as the overnights get handled better. Great suggestion.
As far as retrieving the full amount for a lost $800 graded card ... it's a virtual NIGHTMARE!
WHAT YOU NEED TO FILE A CLAIM (PS Form 1000):
1. Your original mailing receipt for Insured, COD, Registered Mail™, Express Mail® service (original sales receipt from the USPS®
showing article number and insurance amount is acceptable if original mailing receipt is not available). Original mailing receipts for
Unnumbered Insured and Express Mail service must be surrendered at the time the claim is initiated.
2. Evidence of value, such as a sales receipt (if applicable), invoice or bill of sale, or statement of costs for reconstruction of Express
Mail service documents. Either the mailer or addressee may furnish evidence of value. For Internet purchases, a copy of the front
and the back of the canceled check, money order, or a copy of the credit card billing statement is required. If the purchase was
made using an Internet account, a final or complete transaction sheet indicating the amount deducted from the account is
required.
3. Proof of Damage and/or Estimate of Repair: For damage, loss, or partial loss of contents, the addressee must present the
following:
(a) The container, wrapping, packaging, and any contents that were received;
(b) The original mailing receipt, or other proof of mailing specified in paragraph 1, above;
(c) Evidence of value; and
(d) Estimate of repair (if applicable).
Fed Ex will not budge on the replacement cost thing. Their insurance policy states the item will be paid at what it costs to replace it in the same condition. So if that 800 dollar card books at 400 raw in that condition that is all you are going to get from the PERIOD..
USPS rules on the matter are very similar but if you can provide 2 or 3 item proving the card sells for what you insured it for they will pay the amount. You just have to fight them for it and bring plenty of proof. This would get very tricky if the card were a 1/1 or something like that.
If they paid by PayPal then delivery in person isn't advisable. If they go home and file a dispute you will lose. Pack it well, insure and use signature confirmation, and you'll be covered.
<< <i>Fed-Ex overnight >>
me too
<< <i>I personally would drive it there myself as they are about an hour away from where I live...."
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If they paid by PayPal then delivery in person isn't advisable. If they go home and file a dispute you will lose. Pack it well, insure and use signature confirmation, and you'll be covered. >>
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VERY important to remember:
NEVER do a "local pickup," if your buyer paid via PP. You will lose your money when the "buyer" files a fake INR.
IF you have a PayPal merchant-account, where you swipe the card, you can do pickups; otherwise not.
Not sure how the powerselles do it?? I assume they use UPS/FED EX, etc