Sending Birthday Gifts

[unniau1]

Hi!

I have an ebay account. I currenty reside in Australia. I would like to send a birthday gift to my neice who lives in Toronto, Canada. Is this possible?

[springyzone]

My understanding is if you pay for an item with paypal, sellers HAVE to send the item to the address that is registered. If they send to any other address, then they are not covered by paypal in the event registered items go missing.

The only way I can think of that you may be able to buy a birthday present are these.

* Buy something from Australia, it will be delivered to you, you repost it to Canada. Easiest way.

* Change your address in paypal/ebay, buy what you want but keep in mind that if you are buying in Australia, you have to pay international postage. Might be just as well to buy on the Canadian site.

* Pay via paypal, you will probably also be charged an exchange fee on the transaction.

I am not 100% sure you can do it this way, but I would be pretty sure that no seller will post anything off to Canada if that is not the address registered on your account. I know I wouldn't.

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There is a much easier way, you know. There are some dedicated homeware stores in USA that post direct to Canada/USA. They are great sites, you browse, pay for whatever you want & just type in the address you want the item posted to. You pay via credit card & I am sure they charge a conversion fee too but no mucking around with changing things in your paypal account then.

I have sent wedding gifts that way.

[foxette-in-sox]

Absolutely and takes about a minute-go to your main ebay page, look over to left and click on

Account. Click on edit PRIMARY postal address, ADD your niece's address, tick Make Primary. Make

your purchase and when you go through checkout to pay, ensure that your nieces address is

displayed as the posting address.

When you have finished, simply go back and edit to your normal address for future purchases 🙂

[ausbargainbasement]

Yep, or you can just change the postage address in checkout to your daughters, and Bobs your uncle .

[lyndal1838]

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@ausbargainbasement wrote:

Yep, or you can just change the postage address in checkout to your daughters, and Bobs your uncle .

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You would have to ask the seller if they will post overseas and if so ask what the postage will be.

You cannot expect the seller to send to Canada just because you have changed your address AFTER purchasing.

[ausbargainbasement]

Yes quite right lyndal only if they post to Canada, no good if only post to AU

[kopenhagen5]

Or, if your nieces family has a PayPal account, you simply log into PayPal and send funds. 

You can also include birthday messages when sending funds.

Then they can use those funds to make purchases on ebay in Canada.

[phorum_junkie*]

The advantage of changing the primary delivery address before you buy is that you will only be able to bid/buy if the seller posts to that country so negates the need to ask the seller.

[lyndal1838]

PJ, my reply was to the member who suggested just changing the postal address in checkout....that would not work if the seller does not post overseas which is why I suggested asking first.

[i-once-was-bump]

Lyndal that is a timely warning because is a very big scam happening at the moment and ebay are not too willing to help sellers who get caught out by the change of address.