Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To state the obvious, I don't recommend or even condone people to do such a thing. Nevertheless, it does happen, and the buyer and seller will have to work out their respective risk factor. I'm positive that cocaine trafficking is a lot worse problems than two people transacting on a camera lens. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Steve Unsworth <lug at steveunsworth.co.uk>wrote: > To state the obvious, that is illegal. If you are happy with breaking the > law then fine. Also there is the question of insurance. If you state that > an > item is only worth a small amount of money and it goes missing who picks up > the tab? I doubt that it will be the mail company. > > If you are shipping lots of items them you could argue that as a seller the > cost of occasionally losing an item in transit will be less than the total > cost of insurance if you declared the value of everything correctly. For an > individual shipping very occasional items this is far less likely to apply > and you may well lose money on the deal. > > Steve > > On 17 Apr 2010, at 20:49, Richard Man wrote: > > > Eric, can you ask the seller, you know, to declare a different amount?! > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]