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Posted By: BlackSoxFan

A couple of thoughts...and then i'm going back to my usual ... non inflamatory self. I am sorry about your experience with paypal. I will however say that as a buyer and a seller through their system..i've had experiences with not as described. Recently i sold a very rare lighter for my client...the item sold for $499.00 ...a day after receipt the guy sent me pictures of a similar lighter and said that we sent him the one in his pictures and not the one pictured in the description. I don't have any desire to go into the number of ways i know this guy was trying to pull a fast one on us... but the point is this. He tried to dispute the item as not as described...and as is paypal's policy..the burden of proof was on the BUYER ... the case is deferred by paypal.

As for postal insurance... as a buyer ... it depends on how well i know the seller and how expensive/how desireable the item is for me.

As a seller...insurance is required...all the time no matter what the cost no questions asked. Sorry but no good has ever come of an uninsured item and while i know how reliable we are with our service, we always send our items in a trackable and insured manner. Most of our items fall in the $300-$3,000 range so it's really not a big deal for us or the buyer as it's a small percentage of the sale. The problem is when we bend our rules for clients who have individual items that are only 50 bucks or so.

Regards,

Black Sox Fan

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