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docgoodencollector · June 4, 2010 1:13AM

do you always ship with del. confirmation?i usually do,but most cards i get from ebay dont.thanx for input.

MULLINS5 · June 4, 2010 1:14AM

Everything I ship has DC and is built into the shipping price or BIN price.

peterose4hof · June 4, 2010 6:41AM

Obviously if you don't send a package with delivery confirmation (or some sort of tracking) you leave yourself open to scammers.

I treat it as a mathematical formula. In my experience about 1 in 18 packages sent without delivery confirmation end up being reported as undelivered by the buyer; whether they received the package or not is inconsequecial because if contested through ebay or paypal you will lose every time. So I multiple 18 x .80 (cost of dc) which is $14.40. Therefore if the item sells for more than $14.40 I use dc and if it sells for less I do not.

PS: This is probably bass-ackwards logic, but it's the way I do it and it seems to work for me.

drewsef · June 4, 2010 6:53AM

it only costs 19 cents when shipping through paypal, and free with priority mail

storm888 · June 4, 2010 7:29AM

I use DC on every parcel.

In more than 10-years, I can still count on two hands
the number of items that were not delivered or not
scanned on delivery.

If I wanted to give stuff away to thieves, I would forego DC.

I use the retail DC, because I have less confidence that the PP DC
will be scanned upon delivery.

goye · June 4, 2010 8:25AM

side tracking......

Any dc recommendations on shipping a box to Russia?

thanks goye

storm888 · June 4, 2010 8:45AM

<< <i>side tracking......

Any dc recommendations on shipping a box to Russia?

thanks goye >>

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USPS Global Express Guaranteed and Express Mail International are PayPal compliant.

Blacklabelsociety · June 4, 2010 5:14PM

i was shocked i bought a psa card on ebay this week for $500 and the seller shipped with no dc OR sig conf. talk about a risk.

jeff8877 · June 5, 2010 5:35AM

storm...why would there be a difference on scanning retail vs paypal dc's?? Never even thought about this until you mentioned it??

Thanks

Jeff

storm888 · June 5, 2010 6:57AM

<< <i>storm...why would there be a difference on scanning retail vs paypal dc's?? Never even thought about this until you mentioned it??

Thanks

Jeff >>

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In practice, there is still great inconsistency from station to station,
and to a lesser degree from carrier to carrier.

Most stations have a bin where PP-labeled items can be dropped.
Most of those are scanned as "accepted." Some do not get scanned.
(BUT, that is not relevant to the potential problem; because proof
of acceptance is not a PP issue. ONLY proof of delivery matters. Tho,
an insured item that is not scanned at acceptance can create claim
troubles if the item is lost.)

Many carriers simply fail to scan the PP label on delivery. The retail
DC is much more noticeable and much less likely to be missed.

It is enough of a problem that there is a brisk biznez in "SCAN ME"
stickers on EBAY and elsewhere.

Scan Me

brumbach · June 5, 2010 7:20AM

I DC EVERYTHING, and I'm mostly a dollar bin type of seller. It's more out of habit now than anything else, and to keep in conformity with eBay and Paypal's rules of the road.

Since most of what I sell is on the cheap I take the leap of faith on international transactions and just send via USPS First Class International with no tracking. Thus far since 1998, my refunds and problems have been equal between domestic and international transactions on eBay, through all of the many rule changes.

Scan Me labels seem kind of silly, I like the recommendation of using green highligher around the DC bar code on Paypal labels to highlight it and resemble a genuine DC label.

SOM · June 5, 2010 7:32AM

Under $40, or to a trusted repeat customer, or to a new customer with 1,000+ 100% positives, no DC.

Otherwise, absolutely

Nick

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