Paypal Madness Has To Stop

Thank you, smauggie! I don't know if it will work because I don't own a digital camera (actually, my wife took it) and I don't know how to use the camera on my cellphone (I always get one of the kids to do it!).

rod222, that's not proof of postage. You wrote the name of the recipients on the docket yourself.

rod222, do you send every item you ship by registered mail at your own expense?

rod222, you wrote: 'I send all my shipments with labels, that is the deal.
that way you can get proof of postage..free.'

What do you mean 'with labels'?

JimJam,
the franking fee is generated by the till,
and a little white sticker pops out with
receipt of money paid.
Aust Post cannot supply a receipt as which I posted,
if one uses self stick postage stamps.

Hope that makes sense?

The 'little white stickers' you refer to are just receipts which are not proof of psotage and contain no information about the letter's recipient.

Buy a $2.20 stamp to post an item to the US and you just get 'generic international.'

Of course, but it's the best available.
If the orig poster had one of these receipts
indicating China with weight around the day of the trade
it has to go a long way to indicate a genuine attempt.

What? you are going to send a dummy parcel to the
country of trade, just to get away with sending
$19 worth of stamps?

rod222, the 'best available' isn't good enough for Paypal. In fact, they do assume that you would 'send a dummy parcel to the country of trade, just to get away with sending $19 worth of stamps?'

It seems you haven't had dealings with Paypal yourself and therefore you don't have an idea what I'm up against.

You're lucky you've only lost 1 item in 10 years. I've lost 3 in 3 months.

If it's any consolation, I've run into the same problem, but as a buyer.

I deliberately paid for registration because it was an international shipment. Of course, it never came. I contacted the seller, who promised to send proof of registration and request a trace. Never heard back. Filed a PayPal complaint. Typical automated replies, including an automated reply that PayPal ruled in my favor. But since the seller had closed their bank account, they could nothing about it.

I never got my money back, but I spotted the seller again and got their shadow user account kicked off the auction site. It turns out they had 2 user accounts at the auction site. I accidentally stumbled across the "other" account (they used it for buying) and noticed some remarkable similarities (same location, same spelling mistakes...). The webmaster investigated and confirmed the owner was the same and kicked them off. I have no doubt they were setting up to scam some sellers. Unfortunately, PayPal still cannot recover my money.

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khj, I've had the same problem. Two items I've bought in the last 6 weeks have not arrived, one of which was (so the seller tells me) sent by registered mail.

would you like to borrow my spectacles?

rod222, what is the point of your joke?

Sure, because they likely get thousands of emails a day from people like you that think they don't have to follow the rules to be covered. Just because you don't agree with them doesn't mean you get to ignore them. I'd send you a canned response too.

Do I need to make the obvious point that a post office receipt showing that you bought a stamp does not constitute proof that you mailed a specific item to a specific person.

Even if you write that person's name in on the receipt yourself.

About six months, I guess,
I think members here would support my claim
I pay using paypal within minutes of
winning a bid.

Paypals service has been flawless.

It's whom I choose to deal with, that
gives me a good strike rate I should think.