MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Ugh. International transactions are a learning curve!

>Don't get huffy with PayPal because you didn't read the clear-cut description of the transaction.

Nay. I'm not huffy with Paypal. I'm huffy with the expectations of the foreign seller who thinks all HIS fees are my responsibility, but didn't put this up front in the invoice.

If he chooses to accept money only by wire transfer, and tells me how much to transfer... and that's enumerated on the invoice and instructions provided by the seller, if he expected that I pay HIS end of the wire fees, he should have had that in the invoice up front.

Then he switches to Paypal to save $8.40 in wire fees ON HIS END (He doesn't give a rats ass how much the wire cost me to send it)... again he didn't account for the commercial Paypal fees ON HIS END, which is, at this point chump change on a thousand dollar purchase. At what point does the seller just accept the cost of doing business?

Basically any commercial transaction that doesn't involve the customer handing cash over in person is going to extract some kind of fee for handling the transaction from the seller.

U.S. sellers, generally, get this point.

Me dealing with foreign sellers with expectations that significantly differ from mine is new for me. If this happened with a seller here, the invoice would over-ride his whining full stop. My learning curve is this.... I've learned I need to help THEM specify all their expectations up front before money starts flowing.

Were he not the only source, and were my money not already irrevocably wired out, I would have nixed this sale. As it is, I need to learn to make these sketchy transactions work, because its the only source I know of in the world for what I need. I sucked it up to make this guy happy in the hopes I'm not getting screwed from the gitgo anyway. This entire transaction requires every part of faith on my part with no risk on his.

Tom is right, if this is a scam, I'm done for without recourse... but if I have any hope of getting said items from the only source I know of in the world, faith is required here on my part if I hope to get the goods. Learning curve.