This, sadly, is a lesson learnt for your friend. He originally put his address in ebay, or paypal, or whatever, and it becomes his responsibility to change the address as he moves. I sent a product to someone who, when I used Paypal's 'Print a Shipping Label' service, printed a label for her default shipping address in Paypal. She moved, but didn't change her address in Paypal, so the item went to the wrong post office. Luckily she contacted them and they agreed to hold it, so she had to drive a way to get it!! John
Robert Plavzic <[email protected]> wrote: Hi To follow all the questions on whether to send back the wood horn or not, here another hornish type of question. Here an anecdote from a phonograph colleague under stress in europe. I'll try not to name the country as he may drop an edison on my head if he reads this list! He bought a zonophone horn from a seller in USA over ebay, and sent the seller an email asking for postage to his address in europe, and then after receiving the postage costs, another mail with the full address. In his ebay account however he had an address in his profile active for another european country as he sometimes buys things for someone who lives there. The seller sent the item, despite the 2 mails about postage to the given address, to the address saved in ebay - much to the surprise of the friends in that country. Problem is that he has to pay a 22.5% import tax into the wrong country, and then the 7.5% import into his home country. That is to say if the horn had been posted to the "correct" address, the import duty would have been 7.5%. in money terms this unnecessary 22.5% tax is around $95. The horn is now apparently sitting in customs, and refusing to collect it would result in it being sent back to the seller - who would then possibly have to pay shipping to the other address, or jump up and down on the horn! My friend kind of sees it as a lesson learned, and in future thinks to better get confirmation for all steps (yes, he is 100% fluent in english!), and say ONLY SEND IT TO THIS ADDRESS NOT ANY OTHER ADDRESS YOU MAY SEE IN EBAY! :-) that is to say he would pay the unnecessary $95 so as not to cause any hassle, kind of the cost of doing business globally, mistakes happen. Should I suggest that he ask the seller to contribute? thx Rob _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
