Thread: Please talk to me about insuance?

This is one of the areas that both paypal and ebay need to review/overhaul as many sellers are afraid to ship international 1st class. I TOTALLY agree with that Lady!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I understood what you said.

"Where is the third party delivery confirmation, or dc for first class? I'd gladly purchase that from somebody." "THERE IS NO DC FOR FIRST CLASS." Sorry, that was a rhetorical question. Like asking "Why can they put a man on the moon but not make an electric car with a battery that can stay charged long enough to go across the state." I know I can't get it with First Class, but I want it.

THERE IS NO DC FOR FIRST CLASS. That is it. I know many sellers choose to mail first class, I do not consider mailing things Priority Mail UNFAIR. The price is higher, but it is the only service that protects the item and has tracking in case something happens. UPIC and ENdicia or whatever could refund you, yes, but in the meantime while that happens, you will have a paypal claim against you that you will LOOSE because you have no delivery...

Ebay does not require a seller to have insurance on all packages. It is now as it has always been, the sellers responsibility to make sure all packages arrive to the buyer. Sellers in the past were allowed to push the insurance cost off to the buyer. No longer can the seller require/ask the buyer to purchase insurance. It is up to the seller the amount they are willing to gamble with, just that simple. Insurance has always been to protect the...

I never said insurance was required by ebay. but they have told us it is now OUR responsibility. i prefer to be responsible and not risk it.

Gale,Luk, and Mag, thanks for the info on your post. Gale your explanation was the answer I was seeking as to how PP played into the scheme of things. So if a claim is filed through PP first (because of a lost item) and the 3rd party claim is still pending your ID reputation can be damaged.and money lost if there is no follow through at a later time with the 3rd party insurer. Mag, I do use IF as my hosting site and they do offer insurance at...

Y'all are right, and my apologies to all. I didn't read the thread carefully enough to see we were speaking of International and not Domestic. My Bad. I used to ship worldwide (and I truly meant anywhere - Pitcairn Island - bring it on!), but have almost completely eliminated International shipping outside of North America due PayPal's changed proof of delivery requirements and the expense involved.

You cannot print 1st class international postage through Paypal. And the 13 cent e/dc for domestic 1st class is not applicable to international. What you can do, but the fee is hefty, is send 1st class international registered with return receipt (adds about $13 to the cost). Unfortunately, I do not believe that this is on-line tracking. It is 'snail mail tracking'. And I've never used it because most of my items aren't...

I use u-pic but it doesn't add tracking.