A friend of mine has sold 9 x PSA 9 Japanese shinings to the above mentioned buyer located in Italy.
I personally don’t send to Italy through ebay as I know they have a high volume of active scammers on there.
I have this feeling that i have seen this username somewhere before.
Does any other member on here recognise the username at all?
Just trying to help my mate out as i don’t want him getting scammed.
I believe that he is sending through the GSP and asked if filming himself packaging the items will cover him if the buyer claims he never received the correct items?
Why not CYA (cover your as$). Take pictures of the cards before you package them, take a picture of the package with their full address. Send those pictures to the buyer. Keep everything fully up front and honest. Have the person confirm the address. Give them the tracking number and say expect at least three weeks for delivery.
Not sure if you meant buyer (opmystic edited his post so unsure if overall your answer no longer fits what he was asking).
For future reference, that doesn’t cover your ass at all, in fact, it makes it even easier for the buyer to pinpoint what lies they would use to scam the seller. Literally I can take picture of the cards before packaging them, and then swapping them out (that would be 90% of the buyer’s argument). Keeping everything fully up front and honest is pointless if the buyer is out to scam you anyways. The buyer easily just claims an item not as described saying you swapped the contents out and your “upfront and honesty with photos” would go down the drain.
@opmystic: 100% confirm that your friend is shipping through GSP. If it is GSP, your friend should be fully covered, and I wouldn’t worry about it. This is the mantra of @gottaketchumall, right?
I’ve discussed this with my friend already but i told him that all it takes is for the buyer to claim that it came damaged or he received the wrong package etc.
He definitely confirmed to me that he is sending through the GSP.
Would he still be covered if the buyer claims the wrong item was sent to him? I’ve never sent anything using the GSP and am not aware of their policies. I know if a buyer claims this when it was a transaction direct through paypal or ebay the seller is pretty much screwed.
From my experience reading like a bunch of gottaketchumalls posts on GSP and the GSP policies, it works like this:
The GSP is like a middleman, between the buyer and seller to verify the legitimacy of the items. What the GSP does is when your friend (the seller) ships the item, it would go into ebay’s warehousing, where staff would confirm/open the box to make sure the contents of the box is accurate. Then, the box will be repackaged and shipped to the buyer. Therefore, if your friend actually shipped the wrong item, technically the middleman (the whole point of GSP) is to verify and ship the item back to the seller if it was wrongly described. This is why the seller is typically protected when the buyer claims the wrong item was sent through GSP; it becomes really doubtful since either the GSP program did not do their job properly, or the buyer is out to scam the seller. The seller thus is protected and out of this threat.
This is a VERY rough gist of it, I would usually help you do more research to be more accurate, but I feel like more experienced sellers would be able to help your situation.
@ditto has it. GSP = 100% safe. I would ship without hesitation whether it is headed to Italy, Canada, or the middle of a war torn 3rd world nation. Your only responsibility when selling through the GSP is to get it shipped tracked to the middleman and they take care of any and all headaches resulting beyond that. An amazing service.
I’ve been “Scammed” from an Italian eBay buyer before - see here.
As long as you get the proof of delivery to the GSP facility, you’ll be fine. My buyer claimed i switched the booster box and basically got a free VS box but eBay took the hit themselves.
If the buyer does kick off, I recommend that you speak to eBay immediately to explain the situation before responding to the buyer.
I rarely deal with Italy, but for the times I used amazon.it or ebay.it, everything went fine. Instead I buy alot of stuff from Germany, to the point where i got scammed four times (for small amounts). I always give the scammer a last chance to return my money, before I report the scam to the police and guess what? all 4 frauds got resolved.
I think it’s a country thing…and when a scam works, I guess it gets passed down a “scam network” relatively quickly. It’s like Nigeria is super well known for scams too…It can just be a small group of people, but I don’t think it’s just a mere individual or two because otherwise ebay would get that shutdown relatively easily.
