Lost e94 lajoie from Canada

jb217676 · #1 06-23-2010, 08:40 AM

As a Canadian, let me tell you how Canada Post works. In the U.S., you have delivery confirmation, in Canada we don't. If you have a package coming to you from Canada of significant value and want to make sure you get it, you'll have to pay extra to get a tracking # and insurance. If I was shipping a card with a declared value of almost $600.00 to the states, I would ship it expedited and it would cost about $20.00-$25.00 for shipping.

Question to Pete Zouras: Did you only pay the $3.50 Standard Int'l Flat Rate Shipping fee for a $600.00 card? If you did your taking a crazy chance. You should have asked the seller what other shipping options could be provided including insurance and a tracking #. When your spending $600.00 on one card, what's another $25.00 to make sure you get it hassle free. If you paid for expedited you would have had it in 5-7 business days also.

Moral of the story... when buying an expensive card (especially from another country) DON'T go cheap on the shipping!

Jim VB · #2 06-23-2010, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by jb217676

Question to Pete Zouras: Did you only pay the $3.50 Standard Int'l Flat Rate Shipping fee for a $600.00 card? If you did your taking a crazy chance. You should have asked the seller what other shipping options could be provided including insurance and a tracking #. When your spending $600.00 on one card, what's another $25.00 to make sure you get it hassle free. If you paid for expedited you would have had it in 5-7 business days also.

Moral of the story... when buying an expensive card (especially from another country) DON'T go cheap on the shipping!

I beg to disagree. The onus of additional shipping and/or insurance falls upon the seller, not Pete. Pete's job was to get the agreed upon payment to the seller. He did that. The seller's job is to get the item to Peter. So far, that's not done and in no way can that be construed as Pete's fault or responsibility.

Smokey Joe · #3 06-23-2010, 03:54 PM

I found a great way to send cards to Canada....get a nice big envelope 10x12 for shipping paper docs. Get 2 card board pieces slightly smaller than the envelope. Put as 1 or as many cards you are shipping on the cardboard a tape securely. take the other cardboard and place over first one and slide into envelope. Declare paper docs. and value it at $15. I have done it 7-10 times with no problem and took around 2 weeks to arrive to destination.

You should be fine, they are probably trying to figure out a correct value if you put down baseball card. And would make sense if you placed the value very low.

jb217676 · #4 06-23-2010, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim VB

I beg to disagree. The onus of additional shipping and/or insurance falls upon the seller, not Pete. Pete's job was to get the agreed upon payment to the seller. He did that. The seller's job is to get the item to Peter. So far, that's not done and in no way can that be construed as Pete's fault or responsibility.

From looking at the OP, it looks like some form of insurance was paid on his card or else Pete wouldn't have the information that he has. As far as the seller, he's done his part. Card is shipped and he has proof it shipped. It's out of the sellers hands now. If anyone has to pay for this lost card it's the Post Office. This is now a U.S delivery problem at a U.S. postal facility end of story.

tbob · #5 06-23-2010, 06:30 PM

Pete- keep us informed if and when the Lajoie arrives.
Good luck and hopefully it will appear soon. My experience with Canadian sales has been that they are horribly slow but eventually get to my home.
tbob

pete zouras · #6 07-02-2010, 08:42 AM

Card arrived finally. It looked like it was run over by a truck, but the card inside was undamaged. The collective wisdom of the board prevails once again. Thanks.

rholmes · #7 07-02-2010, 08:50 AM

Awesome. Quite the relief, I bet!

Leon · #8 07-02-2010, 08:58 AM

Pete - that is great news. Thanks for keeping us informed.
Speaking of getting ran over. My strangest delivery ever was on this Kelly - Fleischmanns in this picture. I did a deal with a board member. A few weeks later someone brought an envelope into our office that they found in the middle of the street, in front of our building. It really had been ran over and had a black tire mark in the middle of the envelope. It had NO address on it whatsoever, but if I recall correctly, it had just my name on the envelope. It had obviously fallen out of another envelope/package and had been run over, squarely in the middle of it. The card was in a toploader and undamaged. I couldn't believe it, on a few different levels. Fact is truly stranger than fiction. That card was meant to be in my collection. regards

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