"The problem is the items Never seam to reach the Location? and USPS seams to stop tracking it after 4 weeks or so? The buyers have yet to file a claim or contact me about them... but they keep buying higher and higher value items. Is this some new international scam? Or are the packages somehow getting lost? . . . .
Below are a few of the repeat addresses i have sent item to:
Address 1: . . . . . Portland, Or 97253
Address 2: . . . . . Historic New Castle DE 19720-4150"
So -- you're selling to repeat buyers? And they keep buying higher and higher value items?
Aren't those Good Things?
Your concern that "the items Never seam to reach the Location" is misplaced because, In Fact, with tracking through the USPS, you can find out the date that your items reach their location or destination.
Because, per your examples, their destination-location is Portland, Oregon, or New Castle, Delaware.
No, these addresses are not part of some international scam, neither a new one nor an old one.
Those Oregon and Delaware addresses are the addresses that eBay gave to you once the buyer's payment was fully processed. Therefore, eBay only cares that your items reach those delivery addresses in Oregon or Delaware.
Non-USA eBay buyers contract with those freight forwarding companies. Those non-USA buyers are fully aware that anything they buy from you on eBay will go to Oregon or Delaware first, and then those forwarding companies will, well, forward their purchases on to the buyer's actual home or business address.
My selling ID also has sold and mailed many items to Oregon and/or Delaware. Just within the last ten days or so, during the last few days of January: one was sent to Tualatin, Oregon and the other to New Castle, Delaware. Like you, I have never had any problem or question from those buyers about never receiving their purchases.
Try not to worry. There's nothing inherently dangerous about those transactions. Really, it sounds like things are going pretty well with your deliveries to freight forwarders.
