Quote from: thepwnorbpwnd on December 05, 2013, 09:44:22 AM

Quote from: blkitty on December 05, 2013, 09:41:41 AM

Quote from: dethdeks on December 05, 2013, 09:20:55 AM

just so everyone's aware seller wont accept escrow and wants buyer to send first.

Correction, escrow is accepted for US buyers.

But not for international? I fail to see the logic in this.

I've mailed out many packages internationally. There have been times where Customs opened up packages and didn't properly put everything back, and there have been times where the shipments weren't treated very well in other countries and arrived in poor condition.

A lot of international buyers want you to put a very low insurance value or just "$0"/"Gift"/"Returns" on it so they don't have to pay Customs fees and taxes.

Now, if you mail something brand new that works perfectly, but arrives at the buyer's location opened and damaged, then they get to keep their money cause the escrow provider will side with them. Now you're stuck with potentially broken goods that have no value and you can't collect money on them cause the insurance value was set very low or no value so the buyer wouldn't have to worry about Customs fees and taxes.

In the US, you can put a proper insurance value on your shipments, cause the US buyer doesn't have to worry about customs.

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