Buyer doesn't want to pay customs charges. Please help!

[choo_girl123]

If you listed in your auction about buyer having to pay custom charge then they should pay but if you didnt then you should pay

Well, my listing did specify that all customs charges are the responsiblity of the buyer, and that all customs forms would be marked with the full value of the item. Even if I failed to specify that, however, *bay's policy for international shipment states the following:

Customs is a government agency responsible for regulating shipments entering a country or region. All shipments being sent to and from a country or region must clear customs first. The seller needs to provide the correct documentation so that your item won't be held indefinitely by customs. Be prepared to pay fees for customs and/or duties. It is against the law to ask your seller to mark an international product as a gift or for a lesser value.

The seller is never responsible for customs duties. They are always the sole responsibility of the buyer.

 

[choo_girl123]

^ Can you imagine Mr. Verbiage's feedback comment? No one would know what the heck he's saying, anyway!

Excellent point. Perhaps I won't even have to bother to petition the Bay to remove the neg.

 

[pot_luck]

The buyers, not the sellers, are responsible for the custom charges.

regardless of what's stated

 

[alfiebach]

If you listed in your auction about buyer having to pay custom charge then they should pay but if you didnt then you should pay

Sorry thats wrong, its totally buyers responsability.....i did not know you had to pay customs in the UK for used bags. So why would a seller know, if i did not know my own custom rules....I do now.

 

[bellacherie]

The buyers, not the sellers, are responsible for the custom charges.

Yep - if you are importing something of course you are liable for import duties! The seller has nothing to do with paying your taxes!

 

[fantastic_3]

I recently had a buyer just refused the package and sent back to me. I refunded her minus shipping and now today she opened a buyer's dispute claiming she never received tha package.

Unfortunately with paypal, you never know what can happen. If she doesn't accept the package and is returned to you, you may have a similar situation like me.

 

[classicsgirl]

why dont you get his details from ebay and forward his emails to customs and file an official complaint with them? im sure theyd love to hear about the $3800 trunk he bought and didnt pay customs on...

 

[AmourCouture]

^^^ITA...Fashionphile has become notorious for this! Could you imagine Fashionphile going down over customs fraud before anything else!

 

[K.Z.]

I'm taking umbrage...I don't know why...
I'm just taking it...

 

[AmourCouture]

dictionary.com has gotten 500000 hits more this week...wanna know why? Cuz of KZ...that's why! I have 2 degrees and I still have to google shiz cuzzza KZ...

I am now officially dumber...so sad

 

[Expat]

I'm taking umbrage...I don't know why...
I'm just taking it...

Don't take it too far - it will miss it's mum

 

[K.Z.]

^ good one Expat!

Amour,

It is incumbent upon you to take umbrage at the mere
suggestion of you lacking the mental capabilities hitherto
obtained through years of devotedness to academia which
makes you bereft of any trace of incognizance or puerile
tendencies and which impels you to follow a modicum of
gentility that beseems a intellective such as yourself.



Crap. I think I just pulled a muscle, or something, in my head...
I can't see very well...and there's a strange, pinkish, slimy mass
oozing out of one of my ears...I think I blew a fuse up there...

 

[alfiebach]

^ good one Expat!

Amour,

It is incumbent upon you to take umbrage at the mere
suggestion of you lacking the mental capabilities hitherto
obtained through years of devotedness to academia which
makes you bereft of any trace of incognizance or puerile
tendencies and which impels you to follow a modicum of
gentility that beseems a intellective such as yourself.



Crap. I think I just pulled a muscle, or something, in my head...
I can't see very well...and there's a strange, pinkish, slimy mass
oozing out of one of my ears...I think I blew a fuse up there...

this buyer should take a peek on here, he has driven everyone mad
expat...good one

 

[bag-princess]

My reply:

It is incumbent upon me as reader of this communique to take umbrage at the imposition it has inflicted on me, which has bereft me of my senses, hitherto maintained by strict adherence to a modicum of civility that beseems a (bag)lady such as myself.

omg!!!!
i thought his emails were funny enough - he sounds like he is from the victorian age!!! - but this one took the prize!! karmenzsofia you are a crazy girl!!

 

[choo_girl123]

why dont you get his details from ebay and forward his emails to customs and file an official complaint with them? im sure theyd love to hear about the $3800 trunk he bought and didnt pay customs on...

Ya think? Any idea how I would do this? I assume I'd need to report to UK Customs, rather than US, right?

I've already reported him to *bay under the illegal activities section. Actually, I did it twice - once with the first email that asked me to reship the package marked gift & $50 and once with the email about the $3800 truck he didn't pay duties on. Not that they'll do anything about it ....