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| | | Author: | marty33  | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 10:42 | | Subject: | Shipping large orders internationally with in | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Hello,
I have sent and received several packages from outside the US. I don't
know if its a new thing, but when I went to ship an order today, Insurance was
not available. I then learned that you can not insure orders over $100. That
does not make since to me, if anything, those are the orders you would want insurance.
I don't want it to happen, but I would be a lot better off having a $10 order
being lost, but having a $400 order that you can not get insured for loss or
damage.
Guess my question is, how is everyone else handling this. If I ship a $300
order to Japan and something goes wrong, PayPal is going to refund the buyer
and I would be out $300 bucks, right??
Thanks,
Marty
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 11:12 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping large orders internationally with in | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, marty33 writes:
| | Guess my question is, how is everyone else handling this. If I ship a $300
order to Japan and something goes wrong, PayPal is going to refund the buyer
and I would be out $300 bucks, right??
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Insurance does not cover everything that could go wrong, generally only damaged/destroyed
in transit, and then only if you can prove you packaged it according to best
practices.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | marty33 | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 11:30 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping large orders internationally with in | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| But it does cover Loss and Damage, two of the things im most concerned about.
Especially the lost package.
In Shipping, cosmicray writes:
| | In Shipping, marty33 writes:
| | Guess my question is, how is everyone else handling this. If I ship a $300
order to Japan and something goes wrong, PayPal is going to refund the buyer
and I would be out $300 bucks, right??
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Insurance does not cover everything that could go wrong, generally only damaged/destroyed
in transit, and then only if you can prove you packaged it according to best
practices.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | marty33 | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 17:17 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping large orders internationally with in | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| But it does cover Loss and Damage, two of the things im most concerned about.
Especially the lost package.
In Shipping, cosmicray writes:
| | In Shipping, marty33 writes:
| | Guess my question is, how is everyone else handling this. If I ship a $300
order to Japan and something goes wrong, PayPal is going to refund the buyer
and I would be out $300 bucks, right??
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Insurance does not cover everything that could go wrong, generally only damaged/destroyed
in transit, and then only if you can prove you packaged it according to best
practices.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 12:09 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping large orders internationally with in | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, marty33 writes:
| | Hello,
I have sent and received several packages from outside the US. I don't
know if its a new thing, but when I went to ship an order today, Insurance was
not available. I then learned that you can not insure orders over $100. That
does not make since to me, if anything, those are the orders you would want insurance.
I don't want it to happen, but I would be a lot better off having a $10 order
being lost, but having a $400 order that you can not get insured for loss or
damage.
Guess my question is, how is everyone else handling this. If I ship a $300
order to Japan and something goes wrong, PayPal is going to refund the buyer
and I would be out $300 bucks, right??
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You should be able to buy supplemental insurance through e.g. Pirate Ship. I
don't know about other commercial postage resellers.
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