buyer paid with paypal but has no address supplied

Hi ive had a buyer pay with paypal but there is no address supplied at all.  Ive got told you have to send to the address on the paypal invoice to be covered.

 

However ive noticed on the ebay invoice there is a woolworths address to send to.  Buyer hasnt got back to me yet as im assuming shes picking up from her local woolies.  If there is no address on paypal am i still covered sending to woolies?

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@davewil1964 wrote:

probably a glitch, or part of Paypal's get back at eBay for dumping them as primary payment platform.


I was mostly going to say the same thing - eBay and PayPal have broken up (not surprising, considering the consistent communication breakdown Smiley LOL ), but they're still living in the same house and one is starting to get really snippy with the other (literally and figuritively). 

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buyer paid with paypal but has no address supplied

okay the buyer has responded.  She said on her end her address is showing and she has supplied to me over message her private address.  BUT on paypal and ebay there is no private address whatsoever.   SO what should i do?  Im concerned sending to her home address if there is no record on it on my end at all

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@sandyson43-7 wrote:

okay the buyer has responded.  She said on her end her address is showing and she has supplied to me over message her private address.  BUT on paypal and ebay there is no private address whatsoever.   SO what should i do?  Im concerned sending to her home address if there is no record on it on my end at all


Personally, I would not have been too concerned about no address showing in PayPal as long as the one on eBay was correct (my thinking on that is that it's not my problem if PayPal have a technical error that doesn't confirm a delivery address in their own system - if a dispute was raised, they'd have no basis to say I didn't send to the buyer-provided address). 

 

Since it appears the eBay address is incorrect, however, you may want to consider canceling the transaction - there will be an option when you go to cancel "something wrong with the address", it mostly depends on whether you feel it's best to cover all of your bases (if I am sending something untracked anyway, I tend not to bother as I wouldn't qualify for seller protection either way - if I'm sending something tracked and therefore will qualify under normal circumstances, I will then usually go through the cancellation process).

 

The cancellation will trigger a full refund to the buyer, though you will lose out on 30c of it as PayPal keep their flat fee. I would advise the buyer that because there seems to be significant errors with the postal address, you will need to cancel as the recorded address can't be updated manually on eBay or PayPal, and also let them know they are welcome to re-purchase. Hopefully next time it will all go through properly. 

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@sandyson43-7 wrote:

okay the buyer has responded.  She said on her end her address is showing and she has supplied to me over message her private address.  BUT on paypal and ebay there is no private address whatsoever.   SO what should i do?  Im concerned sending to her home address if there is no record on it on my end at all


Well if if was me I would send it to the address she has replied with.

 

Your record will be the email she has sent you that you can use as proof if there is a dispute.  Save it in your personal email.

 

However, I would be surprised if you have a problem, not all buyers are rip-off mechants.

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