Yet Another Ebay/Paypal Rant

Yes. I am simply saying that NONE of the tracking numbers I have purchased from PAYPAL shipping for deliveries OUTSIDE Canada work. Even ones where I have acknowledgement of receipt from the buyer show NOTHING. At least one of these was EXPEDITED SHIPPING. If the Canada Post web site does not show DELIVERED then you have NOTHING and you will pay back the buyer out of your own pocket.

Paypal says talk to Canada Post about reimbursement. Canada Post says they only reimburse if the tracking works therefore it's not their problem; talk to Paypal.

You have NO WAY OF KNOWING if your tracking number works until 24? hrs after you have delivered the package to the post office.

Anyway, that's all I have to say on the subject. Best of luck to you all.

We are talking about OUTSIDE of Canada, no need to yell.

The guy obviously doesn't ship many expedited parcels. I have had an update within a couple of minutes but sometimes it does take a couple hours but not 24h
I would love to see some of these (tracking numbers) to the states.
I don't mean to labour the situation but you're bashing Canadapost and PayPal for a non issue.

Ok. 1 more comment. I have a pile AN INCH THICK of these labels. As I stated even EXPEDITED SHIPPING, not small packets, light packets or anything else. With bar codes and tracking numbers. I sold almost $10k worth in almost 350 transactions in January alone. I have a 100% perfect feedback score. I'm at the post office every day with 10-20 packages going out (most first class). So don't tell me I don't know what I'm doing.

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You can be smug in your 'knowledge' that what you're doing is 'right' (just as I was) right up to the point where Paypal empties your account. I am simply giving you fair warning as to my experience. You can accept it or ignore it as you wish. You, as the seller, must provide proof of delivery. Neither Canada Post nor Paypal has any interest in or financial incentive to assist you with that.

At the time of my earliest post I had not gone through and verified every tracking number so I simply reported the number I had verified. I have now gone through every tracking number I have purchased from Paypal during the last 6 weeks. All within Canada track. All outside Canada do not. I never said they stopped tracking when they hit the US. I said they don't track AT ALL. I never said this was a US specific problem. Germany, Australia, France, Austria, Switzerland, take your pick. Paypal has no incentive to investigate the problem. Take from that what you will.

I've channeled over $400k through them in the past 2 years as both a buyer and a seller. 'Power Seller', 'Top-Rated Seller', 'Preferred Client', .... None of it means a thing when push comes to shove.

The power now lies with the purchaser because there were too many sellers that would rip people off and say they sent it when they didn't. This has now gone the other way allowing the buyers to rip off the seller but you will never get a completely happy balance. The feedback I can see, if I pay right away and you cant seem to send the package or the right package, ect. the feedback should not be even, I fulfilled my obligations whereas the seller has not meaning that I should get positive and depending on the scenario, the seller should not. I usually try to seek resolution before I leave negative feedback though.

I am on the purchasing end and have had international items I have not received and had no tracking which ended up saving me from losing my money so I think its great, but from the recommendation above the responsibility should stop at the post office? what about the person who dropped the money? how would they be protected out of that? just a thought..