oh boy, you just poked a stick at fate lol

i guess i'm lucky in that all my sold items have minimum tracking. more expensive ones i do SOD.

as soon as anyone began the using letter mail to deliver actual items the low lifes were going to discover they could get something for free. it would be nice if tracking could be added to letter mail for a small charge, its allready a working system. make it voluntary and cheap enough that sellers would use it.

but of course thats me having a day dream again.

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@davidc4430 wrote:

oh boy, you just poked a stick at fate lol

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That's why I use this ID for posting. Around 80 pre-my-store listings and about 10 sales per annum. No real worries. I have other listing options - like leaving them unlisted until they are due to go live in store.

Me no silly.

When mail was super slow to Victoria from NSW last year (sometimes 3+ weeks), I had quite a few buyers send a message saying their item hadn't arrived. I asked if they would mind waiting another week because mail between the 2 states had been dreadfully slow. All but one sent a message a few days later saying it had arrived. I never heard back from the other one, so can only assume that it arrived too.

They were all untracked large letter, so any one of them could have turned around and said it hadn't arrived and I would have refunded. I count myself very lucky! I still have a few large letter items, but most are parcel now. A few of them I will send registered, but the rest are low enough value whereby I'm prepared to take the risk. I make more than enough profit on the parcel items to cover any of the others that may get lost or scammed. Most of them cost me less than $2, so not a huge loss to me if I do need to refund.

Very interesting,  buyer fatigue syndrome, it does make it difficult to be 100% with genuine problems. Given the recent events, I have a really hard time trusting any buyer, I would say if it wasn't for some people "trying it on" , and I call them out, that some of these scamming figures would be closer to 1-10 or worse.

Couple of years ago,  I had a series of people claim there was no item in the envelop, same product every time, figured it was a bunch of grubs on a photographic forum. Ended up stopping sellin the product, after about 3 or 4 was no longer making any money on the product. It's a shame that eBay doesn't have a serious look at series of events like that, make examples out of some of the scammers, it might just make a big difference 

i was given a good tip for prevention in a private msg, I'll will be introducing, I'll also be looking really closely at a first response email, I already have one, but will massage it a little to be a like some of the others, I think I'll also contact AP again about fraud and their procedure for investigation, I'm sure it's about time some people actually got charged, if that made the news, I think INR would stop overnight. 

I reckon the OP, who you replied to, knows.

Your reply after 3 1/2 years is nothing short of stimulating.  What a lot you brought to this DEAD THREAD.

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