> From: Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You
> are welcome, as a seller, to ship without insurance. You must, of course,
> accept responsibility for your choices (as in all of life), and if the
> shipment is lost (admittedly improbable), you must pony up for the buyer.
> It's the only honest thing to do.
>
>
>> Stan Halpin wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Seth - write me down as an idiot. I HATE insurance.
>>
>>> I routinely ask eBay sellers to NOT use insurance, and I
>>> have never had any
I agree. It is a choice and the one making the choice needs to live with it.
And of course there are times when I will gladly purchase insurance (life,
house, car, etc.) The issue is the absurdly ad hominem comment by Seth that
someone who behaves in a way that he does not agree with must be an idiot.
I say again, if you have faith that others are not looking to rip you off,
and if you have faith in a highly effective postal system, then a way of
reducing the hassle of sending/receiving stuff is to avoid the insurance.
And my comment about Mexico? My Dad lived there for many years (until his
death a few years ago), and roughly 50% of the mail and packages I sent him
never arrived. When my step-mother or step-sister sends anything from Mexico
(letter, Christmas card, whatever), they contract with a courier service
that takes the item 500 miles to California to mail it from there. So, in my
experience, Mexico is not a good risk and I would not send anything of any
value, insured or not. My experience with Argentina is longer ago, but I
cannot recall anything I sent there being lost. So, unless something has
changed recently, I would consider shipping an item there to be acceptable
risk.
Stan
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