Ebay "Hassle Free" Returns

Without tracking he can just claim he never got it. Always use some sort of tracking for anything ebay related.

If you have a good history with ebay and its not to expensive they may just eat the cost and refund the money themselves but they really shouldnt force a return without evidence of one happening.

Needless to say no reason to ever buy from them again.

Did you read that part about Intl. Priority Mail costs?

If the seller is completely nonresponsive--and ebay will do nothing--I still have feedback to leave. Whatever the outcome, it wasn't an expensive lesson.

@DV yea I completely understand about the cost of it sometime. Big catch 22. Without it though youre at the mercy of the other persons honesty. Of course if everyone was honesty tracking wouldnt have to be offered by the post office in the first place.

Sometimes with questionable situations like that I think its better to just keep it and try and resell it instead of risking it.

I agree with Domain555. I do not sell nor buy on ebay anything that is outside of the 48 states. I got burned a few times as a seller and once as a buyer going outside the 48. First thing you want to do is establish email contact with the buyer or seller, but only through ebay's mail system and not your private servers. If after the email doesn't work open up a dispute with ebay. Lot of ways to get your money back but return mail internationally is quite costly. Good luck.

Just my opinions

edgman

How much did you pay for the coin? Your credit card company and paypal might help back you up too. How did you pay?

I just returned an expensive coin....track, sign, and fully insured was $19. Yeah it hurt, but not getting my $900 back would hurt a lot more.

Right now I'm getting a $300 coin in the mail from a guy that didn't use tracking. There are some trusting souls out there.

Are you in the states? I understood that first class international has tracking. It's how 90% of the coins I buy from the US come. In 700 purchases & sales combined I only had 2 coins not arrive. Now 90% of these coins were sent letter mail. The 1 sale that was claimed not received I believe was a scam. As sometimes I put the incorrect postage on the envelope, the coin Is returned to me for more postage. So I know return address works. I also put packing taping all around the border to strengthen from machine tears. The first 3 months I started buying, I had 2 envelope arrive with tiny year in bottom corner and no coin. The coin never arrived, but the envelop sure did. Lucky for me they were cheap coins, so I never bothered the seller.

Well paypal rules override the sellers. You have 45 days for a return (I think, its been a while) according to paypal. But with no tracking I would be hard to prove you sent it.

I have never had an international problem, but I choose the countries carefully. Canada is one place I sell to. My feeling is the one coin lost is paid by all the bids I would lose for high shipping. Sometimes, a Canadian bids second highest, and pushes final price $5. I welcome Canadians, as well as those from most of western Europe and Australia. I have had a couple of U. S. shipping problems.