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Originally Posted by Trunk Monkey
The Paypal addy is confirmed to protect the seller. If they shipped to an unconfirmed address and something went awry, like your payment, they're screwed getting money back through insurance from Paypal. I understand the Canada/US customs and taxes thing, but if you're going to ask a seller to ship to an unconfirmed address, I think it's on you to communicate beforehand and ask if they're willing to, not after you've won the auction. You're playing the "easier to ask forgiveness" game.
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i disagree completely. unless the seller specifies in the advertisement that he will only ship to an approved address he is the one playing the easier to ask forgiveness game by introducing a new undisclosed term to the sale, not the other way around. the seller is breaching his contract and deserves bad feedback.
and i have never had a problem with an ebay seller querying me on the US shipping address. I always explain I am in Canada when I send the shipping information, and I repeat the shipping information in the paypal payment comment section.
and how exactly is the seller screwed if he ships to an address after he has been paid? if the buyer disputes it, the seller simply forwards the email shipping instructions from the buyer to paypal. better yet, the seller gets the buyer to confirm those instructions in the paypal payment and paypal already has a record.
and we don't have a choice on this. paypal will not let a canadian confirm a us shipping address if the credit card on the account has a canadian billing address. we also can't ship anything but USPS into canada unless we want to risk huge broker fees, and USPS tracking numbers end at the border, so sellers are actually safer shipping inside the US with a tracking number.