quote:Originally posted by EbayLand:
It looks like the waiting period changed since the last time I looked.
The fact is when shipping out of the country you take a 50/50 chance you may have a problem and you will probably be on the losing end.
Since about 4 months ago I will only ship via Priority mail that can be tracked. Ive eliminated all international shipments unless they request this to bid on a item
I had wondered what would happen if the buyer refused to file the claim on there end. Now I know.
I would quit ebay before I would ship to Italy. This country either has the worst postal system ever or have the biggest scammers in the world. Thats why insurance companies give them a longer time on shipments.
The fact is I only over used auctiva insurance as a scare tactic to keep the international buyers that may feel the urge to claim no receipt from doing it.
I got lucky and never got a bad one.
My advise to anyone that has a problem like this is report them to ebay. Ebay will keep a running list of complaints and eventually do something if it continues.
With no problems in shipping overseas until this I get to many sales to give it up.
What is so strange is that 99% of my overseas shipping is USPS First Class International this was only the second Priority Mail and it took 18 days.