As a seller are there payment methods out there that offer more protection for overseas transactions?
I have been using forwarders for my purchases in the US in the last 4 years. If a seller doesn't want to sell to you, you need to move on and find another seller.
I only knows China... Alipay. Seven day direct payment after the item has been shipped. If you have a complain, take pictures and send email to alipay to stop payment until the complain has been resolve. Taobao right now is the best payment gateway I know. Better than eBay. eBay is just crazy to extend the complain phase to retract payment up to 6 months. So many people have been scammed in eBay. A few people I know were scammed in eBay. Modus operandi is they said that they can help you to pay a certain bill such as electricity bill. They pay it using eBay. As eBay now is 6 months to return the money in case of complain, what they do it they retract their bill payment after 3 months later and you will find that you have been scammed 3 months later cause your bill is not paid.As a seller are there payment methods out there that offer more protection for overseas transactions?
I only knows China... Alipay. Seven day direct payment after the item has been shipped. If you have a complain, take pictures and send email to alipay to stop payment until the complain has been resolve. Taobao right now is the best payment gateway I know. Better than eBay. eBay is just crazy to extend the complain phase to retract payment up to 6 months. So many people have been scammed in eBay. A few people I know were scammed in eBay. Modus operandi is they said that they can help you to pay a certain bill such as electricity bill. They pay it using eBay. As eBay now is 6 months to return the money in case of complain, what they do it they retract their bill payment after 3 months later and you will find that you have been scammed 3 months later cause your bill is not paid.
If you're using a stolen account, the amount you spend on shipping is immaterial, no? "Buy stuff from one place and ship it somewhere else" just has "fraud" written all over it. Maybe you're the exception and are legit, but it basically isn't worth a seller's time to try to figure that out when someone else will get them the same sale with less hassle/risk. It may make your life harder, but if someone running a business sees that overseas transactions are responsible for most of their fraud and very little of their sales, why shouldn't they just stop making those transactions?If I want to really scam you, I would scam a much higher value rather than 2 to 300 dollars per item. And spend a fortune to ship it to myself? Am I crazy to do that? I have shipping for item from eBay being shipped to me costing around 100 to 500 usd. If the item is 200 dollars, would I pay double the amount to ship it over? Think about it. It's just not worthwhile for me to scam you.
what are you looking to buy, I'll ship to your US address.1) custom officials? Macau is Freeport. All tax free.
2) err... Shipping to US address. The hopshopgo company will fill everything for me and they ship it out by fedex or Dhl.
3) shipping cost by eBay is even more ridiculous, some of them charge double to triple the price of time.
4) insurance? If everything is packed properly, you will not need to claim insurance.
Anyway, I am just ranting here.
Great offer. I've done something similar for a member here.what are you looking to buy, I'll ship to your US address.
Not even for US to US member... or board member to board member for that matter...as a seller is paypal enough to ensure you dont end up with a loss?
nah!!I only knows China... Alipay. Seven day direct payment after the item has been shipped. If you have a complain, take pictures and send email to alipay to stop payment until the complain has been resolve. Taobao right now is the best payment gateway I know. Better than eBay. eBay is just crazy to extend the complain phase to retract payment up to 6 months. So many people have been scammed in eBay. A few people I know were scammed in eBay. Modus operandi is they said that they can help you to pay a certain bill such as electricity bill. They pay it using eBay. As eBay now is 6 months to return the money in case of complain, what they do it they retract their bill payment after 3 months later and you will find that you have been scammed 3 months later cause your bill is not paid.
I'd be just as aggrieved as you if I lived outside of the US and had to look at all of those US-only eBay deals. But, having done a decent amount of overseas selling myself, I totally understand anyone who simply doesn't want to bother with non-US buyers.Is it just me or a lot of the guys do not want to do business outside of US? I am a honest guy who just wants to purchase stuff here and ship it to an address in US and then the facility will redirect my package to me in Macau.
I have been buying a lot of stuff but seems that the guys here are always not selling to me. I am not scamming or anything. Not sure why.... Once they heard that it's outside of US, straight away stop communications.
I been buying a lot of stuff ebay but Ebay sometimes the liquidators just charges too much for shipping. I have been buying a lot of stuff which is in the deals sections and been purchasing like HBA, Brocade 1020s for 10G, Intel Expander and etc. I have also Fibre Channel stuff with switches etc.
%%SCREAM%%. Life is unfair for the people outside US. There is just so many pc deals in the US. In HK / Macau, you want ECC Ram etc, just prepare to wait for ages for them to arrive. And the prices is jack up high.
If you're using a stolen account, the amount you spend on shipping is immaterial, no? "Buy stuff from one place and ship it somewhere else" just has "fraud" written all over it. Maybe you're the exception and are legit, but it basically isn't worth a seller's time to try to figure that out when someone else will get them the same sale with less hassle/risk. It may make your life harder, but if someone running a business sees that overseas transactions are responsible for most of their fraud and very little of their sales, why shouldn't they just stop making those transactions?