Buyer on ebay - wrong address

custardy

theonlywayisup

custardy wrote: »

You need a haircut!

custardy

theonlywayisup wrote: »

You need a haircut!

I wish.
Theres a young lad at work started.
I have genuine hair envy!

campdave

Your system (methodology of working, not the software you use) cannot detect (legislate) for a wrong address being supplied, if the address is a valid address but the buyer no longer lives there.

I agree with you other points, that in an ideal world all sellers would manually check addresses supplied by buyers, but it's bonkers that we have to do that. OBA and RMDMO don't suit my way of working, and the discount my stamp dealers give me make them a much more attractive way of posting - plus 75% of the time it gets me first class speed at second class prices.

If its so important to you to pick apart what I say, that's fair enough.

Poppie68

Makes you wonder how the buyer with the dodgy address ever manages to get anything delivered from Ebay if the address is incorrect..unless this is their first purchase...OP have they bought before off Ebay?

techspec

How come it never came back - no return address?

Proof of postage would not have been enough if address was right. You could say paypal gave you the wrong info - they should cough up. They could say if address did not exist - Royal Mail should have sent it you back.

If the address had existed and you could prove delivery to it - you would win - but not with proof of postage.

Personally - Paypal should kick the buyer off for being too stupid to know where they live, and let you keep the money.

I check all addresses before posting. At least a couple per week don't know where they live.

http://www.royalmail.com/postcode-finder?gear=postcode

SpammyTheSpammer

of the now-removed thread of the banned ebay member who wanted to create a false address so that they could continue to allow their [STRIKE]imaginary[/STRIKE] friend to sell fake Ugg boots.

Of course, this would also have enabled them to buy and claim INR

bxboards

techspec wrote: »

I check all addresses before posting. At least a couple per week don't know where they live.

I'm finding that - the amount of illiterate all lower case addresses, with typos or incomplete info is staggering. I'd swear it was 4 year old kids ordering items if that were possible.

I am seriously considering putting a note on my listings requesting buyers use properly formatted addresses - it's crazy I need to nanny people for this sort of basis stuff. The trouble is, on Ebay if your change the address you are given, technically you didn't send it to the Paypal address given.

jon81uk

Correct me if I'm wrong but if it is sent tracked to the address on PayPal then you get PayPal seller protection (or something) but PayPal won't accept proof of posting so they refunded the buyer as it was not delivered. If you sent it tracked I would expect PayPal not to have refunded if they can see it was delivered?

Not that I'm berating the OP for not using tracked, this is more a comment on PayPals insistence of tracked delivery methods.

Victoria_Meldrew

Well I seem to have stirred up some debate - unintentionally. I always put a return address on the item and no it hasn't been returned. I will in future double check all addresses and yes I have reported the buyer to ebay and paypal, although paypal didn't seem all that interested and didn't take any details. The most annoying thing is that the buyer missed the auction (or so they said) and I listed it specially for them. Lesson learnt the hard way.
I don't blame RM for not compensating me, but I do blame paypal for refunding the buyer even though it was the buyer's fault the item wasn't delivered.