Does this sound dodgy to you?

carebear1976

I sold an item on ebay last night for £100. It is my first sale.
On my listing I stated that I would send only to the UK and that I preferred paypal as payment.

The winning bidder is registered with ebay in France and has a shipping address in Ireland (southern).

I am unsure whether to continue the sale as I understand that paypal wouldn't insure me as a seller (outside UK,US and Canada) and I cannot see any information on the Royal Mail site about sending an item of this size (its 7kg) to Ireland with insurance.

What do you think?

Undersized_Rascal

Doesn't sound particularly dodgy to me
Check the buyers feedback

Some sellers have a policy of only posting to within their home country - - You opted worldwide so you're obliged to send the producct

Other sellers say please do not bid unless you have 6+ positive feedback

I live in ROI and when you search for anything all it brings up is UK based sellers

freddysmith

Use this Royal Mail link

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump2?catId=400023&mediaId=11200122

Looks like the cost would be from £24 to £61 to post depending on the option you use

soolin

If you really don't want overseas bidders you must set your seller preferences accurately to refuse them.

Now you do have a foreign winner you are right in that it is unlikely that they will have a confirmed address so you would not be covered however you send the goods. However even though you don't need tracking for paypal's purposes you will still need to look at the higher insured postage options as standard airmail will only cover you up to £36 for loss..

carebear1976

So by stating that I will post only to UK, I haven't done that?

It looks like the postage will be £62 if I want it signed for (which I would!)

Am guessing (hoping!) the buyer may not want to go ahead.

smartie1976

carebear1976 wrote: »

So by stating that I will post only to UK, I haven't done that?

Nope, not according to ebay.
The only way to prevent a 'foreign' bidder is to set prefs to not allow outside UK.
However, if they're in Eire this might not cover it anyway (I can't recall if it's uk only or 'UK and Eire' only.)

If the buyer is in France, why is their listed home address still in Eire?
Only send to listed address whatever happens.

GregtheHammer

Southern Ireland addresses are not confirmed so bang goes your paypal protection

Undersized_Rascal

smartie1976 wrote: »

Nope, not according to ebay.
The only way to prevent a 'foreign' bidder is to set prefs to not allow outside UK.
However, if they're in Eire this might not cover it anyway (I can't recall if it's uk only or 'UK and Eire' only.)

If the buyer is in France, why is their listed home address still in Eire?
Only send to listed address whatever happens.

It's Republic of Ireland or Ireland or Eireann . Not Eire:mad:......

Eire is seen as derogatory

You can also use leprechaunia

carebear1976

Undersized rascal - as you are located in ROI, maybe you can help me out...

How do you usually pay for ebay purchases in the UK? Has anyone been funny with you about accepting paypal as a method of payment?

smartie1976

Undersized_Rascal wrote: »

It's Republic of Ireland or Ireland or Eireann . Not Eire:mad:......

Eire is seen as derogatory

You can also use leprechaunia

My apologies.
I have no dealings with ROI, and 'Eire' as a derogatory term is the first I've heard.

Undersized_Rascal

carebear1976 wrote: »

Undersized rascal - as you are located in ROI, maybe you can help me out...

How do you usually pay for ebay purchases in the UK? Has anyone been funny with you about accepting paypal as a method of payment?

No issues, eba automatically adjusts the postage price when it sees I'm in ROI...

although i Lived in UK for years and my a/c is verified