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Comment by ClassyJacket | Hacker News Reader

Excuse me?

As someone who uses package forwarding services to get things that don't ship outside America, I can assure you I'm not a "scam".

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For values as astonishingly small as the percentage of legitimate eBay shoppers using a Ukrainian package forwarding service, that works out to zero.

You might be an awesome person and well worth doing business with but the entire class of people you belong to might still be a bad risk.

This kind of thinking is the reason I have so many rental applications despite having 3+ years at a great job, excellent credit, and references :(

I'm sorry to hear that it's unfortunate. When prejudgment is based on race, gender etc it sucks but there are legal resources. In fact we make prejudgments all the time based on all kind of factors fair and unfair and we don't always have any recourse except to keep trying.

Canada says hello.

For every one of you, there's a dozen scammers.

Then say 90%

As long as we're being pedantic, it's way more than 90%.

The difference between it being certainly a scam vs. not certainly a scam is much more than a pedantic nitpick.

Yes, but if you charitably take the point as being that sellers should assume it is certainly a scam, then it holds.

But it needs an addendum that that might be a real customer and you should ideally have some way to purchase with additional verification, not just cutting them off and thinking no more of it because who cares about scammers.

„Scammer“ will pay for mailing to Package Forwarding Service + mailing to his country and PFS fee + VAT + then mailing back to USA + money exchange fee at top of all that. About $200 in this case. Too much for a scam.

I am in the same boat as you. I use a package forwarding because the customs in my country are a nightmare, so the company takes care of them. Also, I bought books in quantity so it is cheaper to use free shipping in US and then pay for weight.

By the way, I never had a problem and never a seller put a complain on this.

eBay does that as a service, it's not hard to ship to international sellers via eBay.

So it's perfectly inline to refuse to ship to such address via eBay.

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