@englishrosegardens wrote:
I haven't got time to look properly just at the moment, but I have seen it before. I did find this:
http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/pay/shipping-problems.html
Even if you didn't insure the item, you're still responsible for the item until the buyer receives it.
To my way of interpreting the Australia Consumer Law (ACL) Sale of Goods Act (SOGA) once the item has been provably lodged with a carrier the item is deemed to have been delivered to the buyer. If this is true then a lodgement scan showing at least the buyers suburb/postcode is all that is required as is the case accepted by PayPal. Under their MBG Ebay seem to have taken that outside the ACL by requiring proof of delivery.
In section 34 of the QLD SOGA in part it states....
34 Delivery to carrier
(1) When, in pursuance of a contract of sale, the seller is authorised or required to send the goods to the buyer, delivery of the goods to a carrier, whether named by the buyer or not, for the purpose of transmission to the buyer is prima facie deemed to be a delivery of the goods to the buyer.
QLD SOGA Para 34
