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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2338662, member: 71234&quot;]<i>You&#039;re relying on an element of luck not using tracking</i></p><p><br /></p><p>You are reyling on luck with it as well. Another word for luck is &#039;probablity&#039; and the mathematics of probability are what insurers rely on to set rates. &#039;Luck&#039; is fuzzy, probability can be calculated quite precisely and you set your business up accordingly. I use what I call self insurance. Based on an estimate loss figure of 1%, it actually provided a steady annual profit. </p><p>In no way does that tracking protect a package. In most countries only very valuable items would be sent with some form of special delivery, those bar codes just make your item stand out as worth stealing. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>You cannot insure USPS packages without some form of tracking. They would just tell you you have to have tracking if you tried. Tracking is the only way to get insurance, without it there is no proof you ever sent anything.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This is simply not true. The independent insurers do not ask for tracking of packages because they know it is a waste of time. You can insure FCMI (basic airmail) with an independant without tracking outside the US. You can insure with an independent when you print an ebay postage label.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course you can self insure.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Selling ANYTHING to ANYWHERE on ebay and not using tracking is just asking to get scammed. It doesn&#039;t matter if the package gets there or not, all someone has to do is say they never got it. With no proof it did ebay will refund the buyer 100 percent of the time.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This is really not a problem. I find the usually mature buyers of antiques and collectables including coins and banknotes are at least average honest, and that seems quite honest enough for me. Would <i>you</i> cheat a seller? Why do you assume lots of other people of similar moral standing would?&nbsp; Yes, they could, but generally they don&#039;t. </p><p>It is of no interest to me if the claim is genuine or not. As long as the overall loss ratio is small enough to not be a problem, I really do not care if a few people have a free item. It&#039;s business, it&#039;s not personal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see that if your post is typical, and my experience is that it is, ignorance of how things actually work is the biggest deterrent factor to any selller being willing to expand their horizons.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is fair enough to say that exporting or not exporting is everyone&#039;s personal choice. I just suggest that that choice should be made from a position of being fully informed of the possibilities and the ways of minimising risk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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