Overseas Pay Pal, your experiences.

Hi Stan,

You may already be aware of this, but for the benefit of anyone who isn't I'll mention that under absolutely no circumstances should you or anyone else deal with an individual overseas buyer who offers to pay you (or actually does pay you) with a bank check for an amount that is greater than what you are owed.

There is a long-standing and widespread scam in which an overseas buyer offers to purchase an item that is offered for sale on the internet, and pays with a bank check for greater than the sales amount, asking the seller to reimburse the excess. The check, of course, is counterfeit, but since the bank (or the alleged bank) is in a foreign country it takes a considerable amount of time for it to bounce. Meanwhile a sufficiently gullible seller will end up losing both the item and the amount refunded.

Best regards,
-- Al

I've sold to individuals in multiple countries in Europe and Asia and accepted paypal without a single issue.

Make sure they have good feedbacks and you should be okay. I have sold many items overseas and not once had any problem.

On Ebay and here an increasing and considerable amount of recent things I have sold have been to oversees and use of PayPal.

So far I have been OK. I have a couple of rules here:

*only sell to persons with feedbacks-
*members who have signed up for at least a few months-
*my biggest key--look if the member has submitted or answered discussion threads here, the rationale being, if someone is scamming, he likely would not be able to post something meaningful or related to high end audio-

Of course, only ship to someones PayPal Confirmed address.
PayPal actually covered an attempted chargeback from someone who claimed the item was never received. I simply submitted the tracking # proving it was sent and received.

So far ..... So good...... No problems .....But care and common sense must rule ....