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Shipping with COD
 

Has anyone tried shipping with C.O.D (collect on delivery) to customers? is this allowed by ebay? do customers go for it?

it is not safe for you,just take paypal ,

Im talking about domestic COD within USA/Canada not overseas, its quite safe for both parties, just wondering if anyone has experience with it and ebay

In Canada, you cant COD to US =( I hate that or I would be good to go...with Canada Post anyhow...don't know about other ship providers.

postal service excepts checks and that is not cool so I would not use it

Uncertified personal checks? Setting yourself up for a bad no-no then.

Ya, cod from Canada Post is open to all kinds of issues. And takes forever to get paid. So no real advantage to using it at all

Why do you want to try COD?

To avoid paypal obviously, the items i sell are considered high risk and pretty expensive so paypal always gives me problems, I'm doing a few test runs right now, going to see how long it takes to get paid, you can select how the reciever pays so personal checks would not be a problem.

Plus its really easy to just use disposable stealth ebay's when you are doing COD, I just hope customers go for it.

Fedex does COD to U.S, going to try it out as well

I see.

I looked into once for a buyer. If I recall, You can specify how they pay. cash, check, debit, certified check, etc

When they pay cash you get a check or money order from Canada Post

I think I passed on it because it was several weeks to actually get paid. Cant recall. You may find customers that like it, you may find customers that don't.

Exactly, you can select Cash, and they can either pay with that at the door or go and pick it up at their post outlet and pay with cash/debit so its still pretty convenient, from what I understand they cut you a check fast and send it to you by express mail, I just did a trial of a COD from Toronto to Edmonton, I'll report how it goes.

You can add a COD option in ebay?

Yes pod - I have seen it as an option.

Hmmm. Wonder how many buyers would go for it. As mr888 notes, safe for both parties.

I used to have buyers ask if there is another option as they cant use paypal. But I think non paypal buyers have given up on ebay. But I haven't looked at non paypal for awhile so not very literate in that area.

Problem I see is if Canada Post sends you a money order under stealth name, how would one cash it?

All depends on your bank relation pod.

Got that figured out already, you don't need to use the stealth name that you use on the ebay account, I send with my company name as the sender, canada post issues a money order on the company name, you cash it with your business licence or deposit it in your business account, no problem ;)

Nice. Keep us posted on how smooth it does or doesn't go

I have noticed this works fine in other country's but not really well in the us

mr888, just curious on how your experiment with this went

LOL I wanna know where on eBay it gives you the option for COD? :suspicious:

Where on eBay
 

Maybe they just have it as an option in other countries besides the US. I assume if you really wanted to use COD, you could just say that you offer it in the auction itself.

COD can some time mean trouble. Besides, it costs at least $5 more.
I'd want my money upfront before shipping my goods.