Anyone else getting a rash of " Can you ship it to another address?"

[inhawaii]

It's happening to me a lot lately.  Almost once a day.

I end up having to cancel the transaction, telling them to fix the address, then purchase again with the correct address.

Sometimes they re-order. Sometimes they don't and i lose the sale. 

Anyone else enountering this more thn usual?

[fashunu4eeuh]

There has been a rash of reports about this, but it is not the actual buyer asking, but a scam artist trying to get a seller to void their seller protection, and send them a free item. Never cancel the transaction until you are certain it is the real buyer making the request. 

EDIT: oh, inhawaii it is you. You already know this, sorry i hit send before i saw your user ID!

[mtgraves7984]

I'm not experiencing that... but other weirdness. Like 'first-time ever' weirdness.

-Two days after delivery I had one buyer message, "You shipped to my billing address, not my shipping address."

[cynthealee2]

I only ever get em for the bracelets... usually G'ma wanting em sent to grandkids, so I just send em to the addy they want... not bit me yet.  But they are dollar items, so your mileage may vary 😉

[bigdeals.etc]

I get this all the time. It’s no different for me nowadays.

[luckythewinner]

Anyone else getting a rash of " Can you ship it to another address?"

No. Can't even recall the last time I got that request. 

[oldtownrhoda]

I have never had this happen (yet). Of course, I've only been selling for 6 months, so that may change!

[myboardid]

I sell a lot of items that are given as gifts, so I get that fairly regularly, although not any more lately than usual.  I have never cancelled a sale and asked the buyer to re-purchase, I have always just shipped where they asked me to.  I do check to be sure it is the actual buyer who made the request.  Anyway, I've done this thousands of times with never a single problem from doing so.  I don't sell anything that is an attractive scam item, and most often these requests are for items under $50, so I don't think I'm taking much of a risk.   I get that I am going against the existing board "wisdom", but I think the cancel/rebuy approach causes more overall harm than just changing the address does.  I wouldn't think twice about changing an address for pretty much anything you sell.  Live just a tiny bit dangerously!  And it's only a very small risk. 

[dinpavent0]

Yes, I have gotten a lot of these especially since the covid-19 thing happened. I thing some people are temporarily staying other places or with relati. ves, etc. I know I probably should have made them change their address on ebay and I would cancel and all that extra work for items that were $20 or under. I just went ahead and sent to new address. But like I said these items were under $20 and the items were things I highly doubt anyone was trying to scam me on. Since the price was so low, I took that chance of losing my protection. Had no problems doing it and excellent feedback. No big deal, now if it was a large item or something like $50 or more I would request them to let me cancel and then have them change their address. I made a judgment call on these orders and really they were not a big deal. It is up to you and what you feel comfortable doing.

[toysaver]

"Sometimes they re-order. Sometimes they don't and i lose the sale."

Or you've protected your\self from a scammer.