I agree with Sugarbrie. I have seen sellers send COD and request the COD payment plus the shipping in advance. A deadbeat buyer could simply refuse the COD and the seller would be out the shipping and the COD payment. I think this seller is doing nothing wrong. There are deadbeat sellers and deadbeat buyers, but you have to at some point develop a certain amount of trust either through phone calls or emails to complete the transaction. The only other option is an escrow service and they have fees also. Paypal charges about a 3% fee to the seller. That can add up to quite a few dollars on an expensive component.
What would you do?
I recently bought a preamp at E bay to assemble a second system at home. In the AD , there was no mention on the method of payment, so when i offer to do paypal, the seller decline and insist on money order or cashier's check mail to him first before he mail the preamp.I feel uneasy about it and request the transactin done via cod. the seller wouldn't do it initially states someting about he has to paid 4 to 9 dollars more for cod ground ? ONe day later , he agree and wants me to pay 9 dollars more. NOw I am having second thought on the whole deal. Not so much on the extra 9 dollars but maybe it's lemon?