@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:
Say I ship to freight forwarder with signature required. I always pack my items well. If the item arrives to the buyer damaged, who is then responsible?
The only reason to use Signature Confirmation would be to maintain your seller protection against an Item Not Received dispute on a sale of $750 or more, per eBay rules. Below $750, the standard Delivery Confirmation will give you the same INR dispute protection for free. (Proof of delivery is only needed to the City and ZIP of the address you received with the payment, which in your case would be the reshipping company. It doesn't matter how long they take to forward the item to the buyer's final address.)
You are responsible for getting the item to the buyer in the condition in which it was sold, but if he decides to return it, he will need to do his own shipping back to the reshipping company in the U.S., because that is from where your return label will originate if you need to send one.
Speaking for myself, I have always had very good sales to Japanese collectors (as has the spouse, with jazz record sales), and they are often happy to pay more than American buyers to get what they want.
