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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2338624, member: 76863&quot;]It&#039;s not as small as you are making it out to be for ebay sales.&nbsp; You&#039;re relying on an element of luck not using tracking.&nbsp; For a casual seller I would venture to say that the loss rate of anything above 0 they do not receive an insurance payment for would be unacceptable for any package worth three figures or more.&nbsp; Its one thing to be sending 5-10 dollar coins that way but three figures or more and you&#039;re just hoping to get lucky.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You really can&#039;t even make blanket statements about the risk.&nbsp; It varies with every individual country.&nbsp; I&#039;m one for one on packages lost without tracking internationally when a buyer had specially requested it and we arranged the sale in a way where I would not be liable if the package is lost because he wanted to save money on shipping.&nbsp; As soon as the domestic USPS tracking ended at customs the package was never seen again.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I had another one shipped to Canada that got lost in Canadian customs for over three weeks.&nbsp; That buyer could have easily filed a claim and been refunded by ebay if they wanted to.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve sent numerous things to Australia and had no problems for Priority class and above with tracking other than being slow, but I will not do it through ebay due to their policies and how quick they are to refund buyers over things out of your control.&nbsp; Not everyone is honest, a good percent of people aren&#039;t.&nbsp; It is simply not worth the the added risks and hassle to do international shipping through ebay for the marginal amount of extra business you would get.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Selling ANYTHING to ANYWHERE on ebay and not using tracking is just asking to get scammed.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t matter if the package gets their or not, all someone has to do is say they never got it.&nbsp; With no proof it did ebay will refund the buyer 100 percent of the time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You cannot insure USPS packages without some form of tracking.&nbsp; They would just tell you you have to have tracking if you tried.&nbsp; Tracking is the only way to get insurance, without it there is no proof you ever sent anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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