@heckofagame wrote:
The buyer was complaining about you waiting to receive the items back before issuing a refund? That is what you are supposed to do. Feedback like that really doesn't affect your image as a seller. It makes the buyer look like a goof, especially when the buyer found it necessary to post the same thing 6 times.
It's the buyers' responsibility to know what they can and cannot import into their country. Or at least that's the way I view it. Lack of accountability has done a lot of damage to internet selling.
Take a deep breath, hold for a count of 10, release, and then move on with life.
Lawfully it's actually the sellers responsibility to understand import/export regulations and laws. Can't expect for example 300 Million Americans to understand what can and can't be imported. Food importers are a very good example like Italian Deli's and such.
As another example I was a contract to the US State Dept. post 9/11 working with the Asian Embassy. My biz at the time was contracted to work with a certain nation's embassy associated with what went down on 9/11. The Embassy staff did not place responsibility of the materials we were to send on their shoulders, import/export law between the US and said nation was our responsibility. We had to select the products we thought applicable to the information they'd given us and make sure through the product manufacturers that it was ok to export to said nation. There's hitch in all that as well as US Embassy on Foreign shores is considered US property until such point as its not.
Now even more interesting at the time US had soldiers and contractors on the ground in Iraq. We received an order for an item that was from a drop shipped. Place made informational CDROM's of myriads of public domain informations, maps, this/that, just buckets of different titles. We sell, make $5 or $6 each, enter the orders at their web portal, pay and out the door they go.... NEVER a hitch, system worked flawlessly not that I can say they exactly sold like Grand Theft Auto or even GTA's sleeve LOL. Place went under, big surprise there.
So we're doin' this other contract right with the State Dept literally at near highest level under Colin Powell's people's oversight yes? My ex-lady was handling all that State Dept stuff, politician. We get this order from an FPO for one of those CD's right? What do I know? I do what I always did, put the order through, mail the generated tracking number and go, "Wow! $6 bucks! In another two months I'll be able get a used tire for my truck Yahoo!!!!"
OH MY GOSH...
The CD was all about Wicca, the religion or what ever one please deem it. It's off to an FPO military address that I've no clue where that is and turns out to be Iraq, an active US military zone chock full of Islamic folks. Ooops. You might say or preferably SCREAM, "DUDE! WAY BAD PLAY!" Just a tad restricted and OH BOY did we get a reaming... Or shall I say, I did. My ex, the politician handled it all with do grace and diligence with The State Dept. and service then proceeded to take on me where I might well have been more comfortable shall we say in Iraq.
