Justin,
that probably goes well for You Americans and Your domestic business...
But I doubt if You, or Your bank, would be fully satisfied if I sent
You one of my checks from over here when I order a pair of Your nice
new Spitfire head gaskets... Or am I wrong?
All the business I've done with people on [and off] this nice list
have been done by mailing cash and notifying the other party about
when I mailed it. I've bought VERY hard to come by parts from the
other side of the Atlantic some times [as some of You know...] and
it has always worked out just fine. For instance I bought a second
set of Speedbleeders only recently and got the wrong thread on two
of them (NOT their fault - VW Jettas in the US seems to have different
rear brakes compared to ours in Sweden...], mailed them back and
received the correct pair VERY fast. No problem. And he also got paid
with cash in a letter. Easiest way for me - I save the equivalent
of ~ USD 7 each time [the cost at the bank for an Internationally
negotiable check] and a couple of times of such wins equals the
eventual loss on a letter gone astray in the mail... And for the
seller: nice, plain greenbacks...
SHOULD a letter go missing, OK then I only have to bite the apple
and send another pile of greenbacks I guess. But so far it have
not happened, and probably never will with the obviously nice bunch
of people we have on this list. And with trust in The Mail...
Just a thought...
Yours
/Odd
Justin Wagner skrev:
> Ummm.... you were asking people to send CASH????
>
> You've got to be kidding.
>
> If a check is lost... it can be replaced... if cash is lost...
> you've got a big problem. Your customer has no way of knowing
> whether YOU really didn't receive the cash or not... Your honesty
> would now always be at question... and the only way to save face,
> would be to eat the loss and send the product or replace the
> "lost" cash...
>
> CASH through the mail is foolish.
>
> Understand, also... if a check is lost... and cashed by the thief...
> the BANK must eat the loss... as they are responsible for the
> failure to pay the bearer. (I used to be a bank teller.)
>
> NEVER SEND CASH... NEVER ASK FOR CASH...
>
> --Justin
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Odd Hedberg
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S-74236 Östhammar International liaison secretary,
Sweden Triumph Club of Sweden
'70 Spitfire Mk3 FD82497LO Signal Red
E-mail: odd@triumphclub.se / odd.hedberg@bigfoot.com
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