I've had two potential buyers today from overseas that have wanted me to ship to an address other than their confirmed paypal address. The first sent me a payment that had a Chinese address and in the "purchase details" requested that I ship to a third party handler in Oregon. I replied back with an offer to refund their payment and let them resubmit a f&f payment and explained that if I'm being asked to forfeit my seller protection, then I'm requiring them to forfeit their buyer protection. I was told "don't worry, trust me, I've bought $10,000 (join date April 2017) with no problem". I promptly refunded that payment.
On the other one, the buyer has the US address as their "confirmed" paypal address, but the zipcode is wrong. They mentioned that if I ship it USPS, the zipcode will need to be changed, and gave me a different zipcode, but again that would leave me without seller protection since paypal relies heavily on the zipcode associated with the tracking number. If I can't get them to change their confirmed address to match the correct shipping address, I'll be refunding that one as well.
I like to give people that live outside the US the opportunity to buy my stuff, but please, if you're a legitimate buyer, understand that there are scammers out there that use tactics like this to circumvent any protection that a seller has. If you're wanting to use a third party shipper, set up your paypal account to where a seller can ship to a confirmed address, otherwise, it's just not worth the risk.
On the other one, the buyer has the US address as their "confirmed" paypal address, but the zipcode is wrong. They mentioned that if I ship it USPS, the zipcode will need to be changed, and gave me a different zipcode, but again that would leave me without seller protection since paypal relies heavily on the zipcode associated with the tracking number. If I can't get them to change their confirmed address to match the correct shipping address, I'll be refunding that one as well.
I like to give people that live outside the US the opportunity to buy my stuff, but please, if you're a legitimate buyer, understand that there are scammers out there that use tactics like this to circumvent any protection that a seller has. If you're wanting to use a third party shipper, set up your paypal account to where a seller can ship to a confirmed address, otherwise, it's just not worth the risk.