USPS Insurance

[charloscarlies]

Well I recently sold a stick of ram on these forums and shipped it USPS insured. The ram arrived DOA; however, it was working properly before I shipped it. The buyer sent it back and sure enough...it was dead.

Now there is no sign of physical damage from shipping, so what (if any) recourse do I have? I guess I'll go ahead and try to claim it, but I can already see the USPS employee "Sir, there is no physical damage...blah blah".

Any suggestions? (aside from taking a hammer to it )

 

[T3C]

Sounds like you are SOL

 

[farmercal]

How can RAM go bad without being physically damaged? Is is possible for an X-Ray machine to damage memory when being scanned?

Also, are you sure the person that received the RAM had a good machine to test it in?

 

[EagleKeeper]

No physical damage or item was not lost.

Insurance will not cover it them unless you can prove otherwise that shipper is responsible.

 

[crystal]

Are you sure it is the ram you shipped out?

 

[purbeast0]

insurance will cover it. its just a PITA to do so.

when i had to use USPS to get $50 back on a game I had it was such a PITA. They didn't even check the game. it was Unreal Tournament on PS2. I got it, didn't really like it and it was kind of scratched up and would skip, and I claimed the insurance on it. I had to bring them PROOF that the game was worth $50 (like an add from the paper) and then it took them like 2 weeks to get the check to me.

The part that was a pain was getting them proof. THey needed like an add out of the paper r something. But this was probably 4 years ago. I'm sure you can print "proof" from an internet website or something. They didn't question me with what exactly was wrong with it either. I just told them and they didnt examine i t.

 

[charloscarlies]

Yes it is the ram I sent.

No idea how it got damaged. I tested it when I got it back and it was definitely dead.

I do have a bill of sale from paypal, so hopefully that helps. Thanks for the replies.