Reply to: ebay - should I ship to the buyer's ebay address or their paypal address?

[Support Monkey]

Dude - I'd want to have a good reason not to ship to paypal address but I'd also be worried - I can't remember exactly but there are some manky rules about how eBay/Paypal won't help you unless you ship to a confirmed paypal address and have both parents and all grandparents go to the post office with you in person. Ebay has a forum - try asking there for the up to date info. I don't sell on ebay any more unless it's cash on collection only (whcih is against the rules now)

WHS i have a feeling if you read the rules your only covered by paypal unless you ship to the paypal address and anyway its the buyers own issuse, just send to the address shown then its not your problem, especially if you have mailed them and they have not come back to you

[Scrag Meister]

Doesn't the buyer specify delivery address during the payment process?

[Freamon]

<RANT>

Are you Bill or Ted?

FFS is this what modern day contracting has come to? "dude.."

Oh really FFS who speaks like that other than idiotic surfers on Venice beach or just pure idiots who still believe 90's speak is cool? FFS

</RANT>

Chill out, yo.

[wim121]

Ohhh dear, still not a good response yet ....

Anyway OP, here is the answer:

Never, ever, ever, send an item to a buyer to any other address other than the paypal address.

Read ebay/paypal terms and conditions and you will notice something called the seller protection policy. That states you must post to the paypal address to be covered.

It is a common scam, for people to receive your item, then claim it never arrived and that you didnt send it to their verified address and they get all of their money back. Even if the person is being genuine, it is still a stupid risk.

[d000hg]

Things that were cool in the 90s are now part of modern speak and therefore not cool. Chillax.

[chef]

Dude - I'd want to have a good reason not to ship to paypal address but I'd also be worried - I can't remember exactly but there are some manky rules about how eBay/Paypal won't help you unless you ship to a confirmed paypal address and have both parents and all grandparents go to the post office with you in person. Ebay has a forum - try asking there for the up to date info. I don't sell on ebay any more unless it's cash on collection only (whcih is against the rules now)

<RANT>

Are you Bill or Ted?

FFS is this what modern day contracting has come to? "dude.."

Oh really FFS who speaks like that other than idiotic surfers on Venice beach or just pure idiots who still believe 90's speak is cool? FFS

</RANT>

[xoggoth]

Ebay i'd say, it's the delivery address.

[cailin maith]

I generally have stuff delivered to my work address rather than the paypal one. When there is no one in, in the day, it's less hassle having stuff delivered to work.

It's probably nothing untoward.

[d000hg]

Thanks for all the really useful on-topic advice on this thread.

Diddums.

[Clippy]

Dude - I'd want to have a good reason not to ship to paypal address but I'd also be worried - I can't remember exactly but there are some manky rules about how eBay/Paypal won't help you unless you ship to a confirmed paypal address and have both parents and all grandparents go to the post office with you in person. Ebay has a forum - try asking there for the up to date info. I don't sell on ebay any more unless it's cash on collection only (whcih is against the rules now)

Is it??

I listed an item as COC last night.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Dude - I'd want to have a good reason not to ship to paypal address but I'd also be worried - I can't remember exactly but there are some manky rules about how eBay/Paypal won't help you unless you ship to a confirmed paypal address and have both parents and all grandparents go to the post office with you in person. Ebay has a forum - try asking there for the up to date info. I don't sell on ebay any more unless it's cash on collection only (whcih is against the rules now)

[Jeff Maginty]

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[d000hg]

Don't post until you GET a reply.

[Churchill]

"I tried emailing one buyer to ask which address to use, but have not received a reply yet." - Jeff Maginty

Oh dear. You're not very observant are you? Muppet!!

Try mumsnet, see what kind of answer you get over there.

[Churchill]

Evidently

Oi, twatface, there's a difference between email and the ebay messaging system.

Hth bidi.