Hi Chris, A representative from ebay actually rang me a few months back regarding them stuffing my billing to my credit card, anyway whilst I was the phone I asked what their position on the shipping/insurance thing and they said that as far they are concerned the responsibility falls on the party who is paying the shipping as they get to select the method and there for take responsibility. How ever if the item is sent via non-insured mail and lost the seller must keep the receipt to prove that they did send it, if they don't it is assumed that they didn't send it.
If they item is of a reasonable value I usually just pay the insurance anyway, as things do get lost. Just ask Juan :) Regards, Paul Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:32 PM Subject: Re: Pentax Soft Focus for Sale > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Paul Jones wrote: > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1286747961 > > > > If a PDML member buys it then i'll pay the insurance. > > We had a long discusion about shipping and insurance a few months ago, and > I found out that the seller seems to be legally responsible for getting > the item to the buyer. Insurance makes it easy for the seller if the item > is lost, but the lack of insurance doesn't mean that the seller is freed > from their responsibility... it just means that the seller has to > reimburse the buyer out of his/her own pocket. So even if the buyer > doesn't want insurance, it's still in the seller's best interests to > purchase it. Interesting, eh? I bet that would come as a surprise to > most eBayers... it surprised me when I found out! :) > > chris > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
