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Posted By: joe

As a buyer and seller on ebay, the buyer has the responsibility to buy the insurance. I have sold different ways, I put shipping info in the auction and offer insurance as an option. Lately, I have been selling with shipping required. But, when you do this your shipping cost looks to high for the item your are selling and some buyers don't read the complete description about the insurance. But in the end I believe it is the buyer responsibility for insurance. Sometimes you have to guess on insurance, $1.30-$7.00 depending on the ending price.
Also, on overseas shipping there can be a problem. I sold some records worldwide, 1 record sold to Australia buyer, when I went to insure the USPS told me it would have to be mailed registered to be insured. The cost was prohibative, insurance would have been $12.00 on a $10.00 item. It cost $10.50 as it was, the lowest cost for shipping overseas.

Joe

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