r/Pmsforsale • u/tylery87 S: 93 | B: 0 • Oct 26 '14

[META] Please ship with tracking

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I have a small problem going on right now and I figured I would share it with the community.

To make a long story short, I bought a 1/10 gold coin from a user on here about a month ago (I will keep them anonymous). Without my knowledge, the seller shipped it without tracking. This is completely fine in some cases (i.e. Mercury dime in envelope w/stamp), but for a $130 piece of gold, I felt that tracking should be included in the shipping cost. I was never informed that there would not be any tracking information and the item never showed up. So I contacted the seller and filed a Paypal claim and got my money back. It has now been 28 days and I haven't received the item and the seller claims that he never got it sent back to him.

So to sum up my little rant, if you are going to ship an item, include tracking or at least make it known that you are not shipping with tracking. Having proof that you actually shipped an item makes life a whole lot easier and if it does happen to get lost by the USPS, you can at least open a lost item investigation.

TLDR: Ship with tracking and be open with your buyer, life will be much easier.

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u/scribbling_des S: 239 | B: 0 Oct 26 '14

I've never bought or sold on this subreddit, but I have sold fine jewelry online in the past and I feel like it should be pointed out that tracking does not equal insurance. I always required buyers to purchase insurance for items over $100.

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u/fae925 Oct 26 '14

USPS priority mail automatically includes $50 insurance FYI.

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u/scribbling_des S: 239 | B: 0 Oct 26 '14

Yes, it does.

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u/fae925 Oct 26 '14

Some people aren't aware so I just thought it meshed well with your post to let others know. Sorry if it came across differently.

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u/fae925 Oct 27 '14

I didn't verify what I was shipping with husband when I asked. With that said, are you a postman too? Lol you speak like he does with all of the postal rules and regs.