@digital*ghost wrote:...
It is always immensely satisfying to advise the dodgy ones that my packing process is recorded and I have visual evidence of exactly what went into a package - some I send a photo through to them, and I very rarely hear from any of these buyers again (well, except for one, he was a special case indeed, but that's a story for another time
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A seller, having an adequately stocked inventory, and suitably motivated by a scamming buyer, could even..."reenact"...such a packing process for the camera, especially where standardised packaging and labeling is used. One could think of it as on-demand, after-the-fact "evidence" -- really going that extra mile to help a buyer weigh their choices more carefully.
Yeah, but that can get on shakier ground due to metadata (because all of my records are taken on the day of postage, the metadata on every single file matches postage dates, which could be important if I ever have a dispute go to court and I want to establish cosistency and reliability - it's why I also do it for all orders, whether they just have 1 item or 20, or are going to a well-trusted regular. 3D chess... ) - plus you can't do it with the pre-paid tracked letters, and the other reason I do it is to know for sure whether the buyer is fibbing or not, as I have accidentally left items out of packages a number of times and I can't always remember exactly what I packed, so being able to check prevents me from being suspicious of people when I have no cause to be. 🙂
@tazzieterror wrote:
NO COMMENT.
SpoilerNot even a skerrick!
None needed, but as I said - consistency and reliability is the primary reason. I'm not interested in anything else, or creating them in place of an unreliable memory as that just defeats part of the purpose - also it means I can send that image through very rapidly - if you can think of staging it, a buyer can accuse me of staging it if it takes me an hour instead of a minute. (Besides which, there is other data that would not match - my sig on a label will not be identical, nor will the way I wrote the address on the envelope, if I used printed labels, maybe I don't get the placement exactly the same - if a buyer is accusing me of not sending everything, nothing will give them greater ammo than "proof" that can be immediately debunked 
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I also store about 1000 photos a month for at least 6 months. On the (extremely unlikely) chance it ever comes in handy as a whole, it's there, ready and waiting, nothing further required.
