Non-delivery/severe delay on a BST transaction

[cardsagain74]

Originally Posted by HercDriver

One thing about insurance, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's basically worthless for what we generally do. You have to have a receipt showing proof of the purchase price, otherwise you only get the $50 standard insurance. So if I bought a Ryan RC in a pack from Woolworth's back in 1968, I need to have the receipt, showing that I paid 20 cents for it, in order to be reimbursed that 20 cents. Not the thousands of dollars that it's worth...the USPS doesn't care about that. Maybe you can still get the $50, but I'm not sure who's entitled to it, the sender or the receiver. The whole thing sucks. As does the USPS.

I never would have guessed this. Why do ebay card sellers even have insurance as a standard part of expensive purchases then? Could the value not be proven by the ebay/paypal "receipt"?