How the heck to you verify someone's paypal shipping address?

[fuzzybabybunny]

I know that I have to ship to a confirmed address to get Paypal Seller Protection. A prospective bidder just emailed me his address and asked if I would ship to it. How do I go about finding out if his address is Paypal confirmed?

The closest that I can find is this: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-.../sell/SellerConfirmAdd

But it doesn't actually give me a way to check an address...

 

[FoBoT]

you don't send it to the address they give you, you send it to the address you get from paypal
you can't tell until they send payment, then you can either accept or deny the payment if they lie to you about it being a confirmed/verified address

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you don't send it to the address they give you, you send it to the address you get from paypal
you can't tell until they send payment, then you can either accept or deny the payment if they lie to you about it being a confirmed/verified address

Oh, great. So I have to wait the five days for my auction to run to completion in order to finally discover that the winning bidder is someone without a confirmed address and then be forced to relist my auction?

That is messed up.

 

[Steve]

When your auction is done, if the winner's address is unconfirmed, I guess it's your choice as to whether you'll sell or not. However I really don't know much about these things and I think maybe the buyer could try and cause trouble if you don't sell on a condition you didn't list in your auction?

Send a PM to bamacre and tell him I sent you, he knows all about this stuff.

 

[bamacre]

Yeah, you won't be able to tell if his address is Confirmed until you receive his funds.

You should definitely state in your auction that you will ONLY ship to a PayPal Confirmed Address, unless you accept other forms of payment (and then I would recommend using USPS Money Orders).

If you have that stated in your auction, and the buyer refuses to pay with a Confirmed Address, then you can file a Non-paying bidder, and get your Final Value Fees back.

This is one reason that I do not allow bidding, only straight sales, on Ebay.

 

[imported_LoKe]

eBay is worthless when it comes to SELLER protection. I just avoid the whole mess altogether.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: LoKe
eBay is worthless when it comes to SELLER protection. I just avoid the whole mess altogether.

Not necessarily. You just have to know what you're doing. I have a few things in place that prevent me from having to deal with 99% of the scammers.

First off, I only do straight sales. No bidding.

I also utlilize the Immediate Payment Required feature. So, the buyer has to make a payment before the auction will actually end.

In my Ebay seller preferences, I have blocked...

1. Members registered in countries to which I don't ship
2. Members who have a feedback score of -1 or lower
3. Members who have received 2 Unpaid Item strikes in the last 30 days

In my PayPal preferences, under Payment Receiving Preferences, I have the following blocked...

1. Payments from U.S. users who do not provide a Confirmed Address
2. Payments sent to me in a currency I do not hold
3. PayPal members who have non-U.S. PayPal accounts

So, in the end, the buyer has to send me payment, with a Confirmed USA address, before the auction even ends. That gets rid of 99% of the scammers and trolls.

 

[ElFenix]

bamacre for elite!

 

[Steve]

Thanks bam!

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: LoKe
eBay is worthless when it comes to SELLER protection. I just avoid the whole mess altogether.

Not necessarily. You just have to know what you're doing. I have a few things in place that prevent me from having to deal with 99% of the scammers.

First off, I only do straight sales. No bidding.

I also utlilize the Immediate Payment Required feature. So, the buyer has to make a payment before the auction will actually end.

In my Ebay seller preferences, I have blocked...

1. Members registered in countries to which I don't ship
2. Members who have a feedback score of -1 or lower
3. Members who have received 2 Unpaid Item strikes in the last 30 days

In my PayPal preferences, under Payment Receiving Preferences, I have the following blocked...

1. Payments from U.S. users who do not provide a Confirmed Address
2. Payments sent to me in a currency I do not hold
3. PayPal members who have non-U.S. PayPal accounts

So, in the end, the buyer has to send me payment, with a Confirmed USA address, before the auction even ends. That gets rid of 99% of the scammers and trolls.

That actually is quite convenient, I wasn't aware you could set that level of blocks on receiving payments. I manually reject anything that comes through unconfirmed but having them blocked outright would be nce.

Viper GTS