THIS JUST IN...Magazines now ok for Media Mail says Buyer with 40 years shipping experience!

[magicjohnsonsvariety]

[southern*sweet*tea]

This just in:

Your buyer is full of baloney. If they've really been shipping books and magazines for forty years, then they're also a Postal cheat because I guarandangtee you that they know exactly what they're doing, and hope that you are dumb enough to believe them.

[magicjohnsonsvariety]

Not the first time I've gotten messages like this but this one is the most interesting just how convincing he tries to be. 

Clearly, ebay is not doing enough to educate buyers on this topic......

It shouldn't always be on us sellers to constantly have to reply to these messages encouraging media mail abuse!!! 

[lja440]

20 years of carrying mail for USPS. Magazines DO NOT qualify for Media Mail.

[orangehound]

A seller/buyer who is a dishonest with the USPS will also be  dishonest with other eBay members ...

[simba6]

They might have gotten away with it but it's not allowed.  These days the postal service inspects a lot more media mail packages too. 

[99centhousefund]

20 years of carrying mail for USPS. Magazines DO NOT qualify for Media Mail

But the message in the op's post is from someone with 40 YEARS experience!

So 40 is double 20 so that person must be right!

OP Do not listen to someone from the USPS that knows silly little things like rules!

Listen to the person that KNOWS that you are charging too much shipping!

LMAO

( Please note the above post is sarcastic & done while LMAO. I type disclaimers like this since on the internet posts can sometimes be misconstrued. )

[a_c_green]

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@magicjohnsonsvariety wrote:

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Your interested buyer is muddling together books (which are valid as Media Mail) and magazines (which are not).

Just send him the following link to USPS' own rulings on what does or does not qualify, and don't bother engaging him in further debate. 

https://liteblue.usps.gov/news/link/2013/04apr/Media-Mail-Guidelines.htm 

[magicjohnsonsvariety]

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@orangehound wrote:

A seller/buyer who is a dishonest with the USPS will also be  dishonest with other eBay members ...

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That's exactly why I blocked him with no response. I no longer make it my job to correct people. I'm a cop and salesman...not a teacher.

This type of messaging tactic might work on Rookie sellers desperate for a sale, but if this guy took the time to look at my number he would've known he's just wasting his time.

However, messages like this shows a deeper, more rooted problem....

[annadryl]

Ironic, because buyers that say silly stuff like that do not qualify for my shipping requirements.

[lex-talon]

Come on now, do you believe everything you see and hear? That buyer is full of it and needs to blocked.

[soh.maryl]

Sorry -- I prefer my information to come from the source of the service, which would be the USPS, not some random eBayer who is trying to get a seller to break the law.

[buyselljack2016]

Lots of things got by as "media mail" in the past.

If I went to look, I could probably locate a box of small automotive electrical parts, sitting on a shelf in the cellar, that were sent to me by an eBay seller, using media mail.

I noticed that it had a media mail label on it about a year ago, but do not remember if I noticed that when it arrived several years ago.

[magicjohnsonsvariety]

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@soh.maryl wrote:

Sorry -- I prefer my information to come from the source of the service, which would be the USPS, not some random eBayer who is trying to get a seller to break the law.

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Which is my point for this post.

I propose ebay discipline buyers who encourage sellers to, as you put it..."Break the law". A warning first...then more sanctions if they continue. 

As it stands right now, all the repercussions are on the seller, however all these buyers who encourage media mail abuse are not innocent bystanders. 

[magicjohnsonsvariety]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@magicjohnsonsvariety wrote:

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Your interested buyer is muddling together books (which are valid as Media Mail) and magazines (which are not).

Just send him the following link to USPS' own rulings on what does or does not qualify, and don't bother engaging him in further debate. 

https://liteblue.usps.gov/news/link/2013/04apr/Media-Mail-Guidelines.htm 

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I doubt judging by the tone of his message that he is simply just ignorant to the rules. 

This guy knows exactly what he's doing.....