Oh dear Again those unreliable and crooked customers overseas.
May be you should do some due diligence on your customer instead of relying too much on others. If you have a problem, the first thought should be "what did I do wrong" instead of claiming "the others did it again to me" Hope this suggestion helps. Robert Who sells 90% overseas At 01:32 PM 10/11/2002, you wrote: >another good one with UPS and FED-EX is this... > >A...shipper in US >B ..client overseas > >B calls and sends payment to A. >B has A ship on UPS/FedEx account > >weeks later A gets bill from carrier for >shipping, taxes and duties... > >A calls shipper/carrier, they state B refused to pay >so A is responsible, says it is in the fine print >on the shipping labels, so pay... > >A says " ya but i called carrier office before shipping >and B's account number was good, carrier says "sorry >but B does not have a billable account" > >A says "at time of shipping they did" carries says "sorry". > >A says " what did they do? cancel the account while shipment >was in route?" > >carrier says," sorry i can not talk about that" > >A says," well what if i order product from overseas and have it >shipped on my account, then call you and cancel my account, >would you then bill the sender lets say in England?".. > >Carrier says, " you can not do that sir as you do not have a billable >account" > >A says " exactly, i do not have a FedEx account so how can you bill me?" >and if your now telling me that B has no billable account why did you >on the order of B send a truck to pick up the product, i (A) did not call >you, i did not arrange the pick up, B did...." > >carrier says, "sorry i can not talk about that " > >SO moral of the story, A is screwed, FedEx paid by A.....again by threat of >law. > >and let me warn you all further, even if B has a valid account but does pay >the bill to carrier, we that good old American shipper is responsible..so be >sure that the shipping is paid in advance and even better get 20 percent >additional >to cover tax and duties that you can refund when your sure that the client >has paid that on their end....because if the client overseas does not pay >ups >and FedEx, they will still deliver to them and hit you. > >The best way i have found is to ship with private carrier for large >shipments like >John S Connor in Washington DC (phone available on request) or with the >USPS..if they ship >and the client is playing games and will not pay, they keep it and sell to >cover >costs, they do not hit the shipper! and with both of these ways of shipping >i >personally have not had a problem at all.... > >I hope this does not give those of you "Overseas" any ideas on how to screw >us US >shippers, and i pray that all the vendors on this list would start refusing >to ship on >client accounts and collect for tax and duties up front, if we all do not >then >the prospective buyer can just call until he finds a "sucker" if we all do >then >the "bad guys" will find no one that will.... > >Even good overseas buyers with a few years of good track record can and do >pull this, i have seen warnings on this list concerning a couple overseas >vendors that >where like gold and now do not pay the shipping,... > >the bad economy is hitting us all, global and has many trying and doing >things they >would not have considered years ago, sometimes not meant to be malicious or >an attempt at a rip off, but may be an attempt at stalling a payment or >expenditure, but >that SNOWBALLS as the money comes tighter, "peter and Paul" get sick if you >will, and well >someone gets stuck, and a good guy is now bad.... > >lucent and Cisco just announced thousands , many thousands of lay offs >again, Boeing to >many many K's.... watch your back guys! tighten your seat belts, and start >buying >and holding real assets and food, things can not inevitably get better if >all the consumers >are laid off,... >(nothing to do with topic at hand, but a pet subject, sorry) > >see ya. > > > >Albert > > >___________ The ISP-EQUIPMENT Discussion List ___________ >Reading this email constitutes your consent to our guidelines >[http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-equipment/guidelines/] >To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-equipment/archives/ > >--- >You are currently subscribed to isp-equipment as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >%%email.unsub%% ________________________________ This Email was written by Robert Carter In case you wish, secured mail can be sent. Ask for my Public Key ___________ The ISP-EQUIPMENT Discussion List ___________ Reading this email constitutes your consent to our guidelines [http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-equipment/guidelines/] To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-equipment/archives/ --- You are currently subscribed to isp-equipment as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
