@1barflys3 wrote:
seller wants paying for an item via paypal and then wants to send item via COD australia post for the postage content it seems a weird way of doing it any opinions ?
There isn't anything inherently wrong with this, and could well proceed just as any other eBay transaction, but there are a couple of things that you may want to consider...
First, though, if as suggested above, the seller would need access to the funds in order to post the item, they may want to look into eBay's postage options, since they don't have to pay postage up front (it's added to their eBay bill), and using eBay's labels may be able to get the funds released sooner than any other postage method (assuming the item suits any of the available postage methods - I'm not normally one to spruik eBay's postage options, but it does have a couple of benefits, and these kinds of scenarios is one them).
It's a bit iffy, otherwise (I'm not saying the seller is, I'm just looking purely at the potential pros and cons if something doesn't go as planned, and the 'if' isn't suggestive of probability, just possibility ๐ ). The first one would be - aside from the additional expense of COD (I think it's around $15.00) - the postage component and COD fee would be unrecoverable if it actually came to that, unless voluntarily refunded by the seller (I wouldn't be happy about copping the COD fee when I didn't want or ask for it as a payment method on an item, either, to be honest).
The invoice (and therefore PayPal receipt) would still need to properly reflect that the item was being posted, otherwise it could compromise your buyer protection on the item price, too.
