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And your address to send his mates round
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I dug up this older topic being Romanian myself and looking for a reasonably priced solution for shipping heavy stuff from UK to Romania. Turns up it was more about fear of being scammed then about shipping options.
This being said, maybe it's worth throwing in my 2p in case someone else finds himself in the same situation as the OP.
1. If shipping lighter stuff via Royal Mail use the signed for option. Once the item enters Romania you can track it on this page (Romanian Post tracking system) https://www.posta-romana.ro/track-trace.html
2. Common sense applies when selling stuff to any foreign country, Romania is no exception. However, even if the Daily Mail would try to make you believe that Romania is some sort of European Nigeria, we actually have an effective police force dealing with all sorts of cyber crime. So if someone is dumb enough to pay you with their own Paypal account and then claim they never received the goods and you have the confirmation they actually did get those goods, you can have them prosecuted for theft. And it works.
Here is where common sense needs to kick in, because we also have here lots of kids with good internet access and good computer skills and some of them get tempted to use these skills to do all sorts of idiotic things online. Some end up hacking GW Bush's mail and being chased by the FBI just for bragging rights while other get involved in much more trivial actions, like hacking other people's Paypal accounts. So this gets us to point 3
3. When shipping stuff to Romania or whatever other country, including your own, make sure you're shipping the goods to the person who owns the Paypal account that was used to pay for them. If you make any exceptions (the "my aunt is sick and I pay this with my Paypal account but I want the goods shipped to her" kind of things) you have a very good chance to get paid with a stolen account regardless of the country where you ship the goods.
4. If it's the other way around and you buy things from other country using fleabay or whatever other platform NEVER EVER wire the money using Western Union, Moneygram or similar services. In 99% of the cases you can kiss that money goodbye. Use Paypal as their buyer protection is quite good.
5. Some people particularly from Germany hate Paypal and it's fees and won't use it. Here you have two options a) Ask them if they would take Paypal if you pay the seller's fees or b) send the money by bank transfer to their own account. Obviously Germany has it's thieves too but normally they're not so dumb as to receive money in their own bank account. Of course, common sense applies, check the seller's feedback AND it's structure (if seller has 500+ feedback and only sold items worth 1 euro each beware of that 5000 euro item that has absolutely nothing to do with the stuff they previously sold)
All these come from my own personal experience with ebay since 1999 which involves buying a few hundred items from various countries around the world and also selling some 20 items, some of them expensive. Greetings from a Romanian who has no intention to immigrate to UK ( or whatever other country for that matter
)
This being said, maybe it's worth throwing in my 2p in case someone else finds himself in the same situation as the OP.
1. If shipping lighter stuff via Royal Mail use the signed for option. Once the item enters Romania you can track it on this page (Romanian Post tracking system) https://www.posta-romana.ro/track-trace.html
2. Common sense applies when selling stuff to any foreign country, Romania is no exception. However, even if the Daily Mail would try to make you believe that Romania is some sort of European Nigeria, we actually have an effective police force dealing with all sorts of cyber crime. So if someone is dumb enough to pay you with their own Paypal account and then claim they never received the goods and you have the confirmation they actually did get those goods, you can have them prosecuted for theft. And it works.
Here is where common sense needs to kick in, because we also have here lots of kids with good internet access and good computer skills and some of them get tempted to use these skills to do all sorts of idiotic things online. Some end up hacking GW Bush's mail and being chased by the FBI just for bragging rights while other get involved in much more trivial actions, like hacking other people's Paypal accounts. So this gets us to point 3
3. When shipping stuff to Romania or whatever other country, including your own, make sure you're shipping the goods to the person who owns the Paypal account that was used to pay for them. If you make any exceptions (the "my aunt is sick and I pay this with my Paypal account but I want the goods shipped to her" kind of things) you have a very good chance to get paid with a stolen account regardless of the country where you ship the goods.
4. If it's the other way around and you buy things from other country using fleabay or whatever other platform NEVER EVER wire the money using Western Union, Moneygram or similar services. In 99% of the cases you can kiss that money goodbye. Use Paypal as their buyer protection is quite good.
5. Some people particularly from Germany hate Paypal and it's fees and won't use it. Here you have two options a) Ask them if they would take Paypal if you pay the seller's fees or b) send the money by bank transfer to their own account. Obviously Germany has it's thieves too but normally they're not so dumb as to receive money in their own bank account. Of course, common sense applies, check the seller's feedback AND it's structure (if seller has 500+ feedback and only sold items worth 1 euro each beware of that 5000 euro item that has absolutely nothing to do with the stuff they previously sold)
All these come from my own personal experience with ebay since 1999 which involves buying a few hundred items from various countries around the world and also selling some 20 items, some of them expensive. Greetings from a Romanian who has no intention to immigrate to UK ( or whatever other country for that matter
)
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Well said.I dug up this older topic being Romanian myself and looking for a reasonably priced solution for shipping heavy stuff from UK to Romania. Turns up it was more about fear of being scammed then about shipping options.
This being said, maybe it's worth throwing in my 2p in case someone else finds himself in the same situation as the OP.
1. If shipping lighter stuff via Royal Mail use the signed for option. Once the item enters Romania you can track it on this page (Romanian Post tracking system) https://www.posta-romana.ro/track-trace.html
2. Common sense applies when selling stuff to any foreign country, Romania is no exception. However, even if the Daily Mail would try to make you believe that Romania is some sort of European Nigeria, we actually have an effective police force dealing with all sorts of cyber crime. So if someone is dumb enough to pay you with their own Paypal account and then claim they never received the goods and you have the confirmation they actually did get those goods, you can have them prosecuted for theft. And it works.
Here is where common sense needs to kick in, because we also have here lots of kids with good internet access and good computer skills and some of them get tempted to use these skills to do all sorts of idiotic things online. Some end up hacking GW Bush's mail and being chased by the FBI just for bragging rights while other get involved in much more trivial actions, like hacking other people's Paypal accounts. So this gets us to point 3
3. When shipping stuff to Romania or whatever other country, including your own, make sure you're shipping the goods to the person who owns the Paypal account that was used to pay for them. If you make any exceptions (the "my aunt is sick and I pay this with my Paypal account but I want the goods shipped to her" kind of things) you have a very good chance to get paid with a stolen account regardless of the country where you ship the goods.
4. If it's the other way around and you buy things from other country using fleabay or whatever other platform NEVER EVER wire the money using Western Union, Moneygram or similar services. In 99% of the cases you can kiss that money goodbye. Use Paypal as their buyer protection is quite good.
5. Some people particularly from Germany hate Paypal and it's fees and won't use it. Here you have two options a) Ask them if they would take Paypal if you pay the seller's fees or b) send the money by bank transfer to their own account. Obviously Germany has it's thieves too but normally they're not so dumb as to receive money in their own bank account. Of course, common sense applies, check the seller's feedback AND it's structure (if seller has 500+ feedback and only sold items worth 1 euro each beware of that 5000 euro item that has absolutely nothing to do with the stuff they previously sold)
All these come from my own personal experience with ebay since 1999 which involves buying a few hundred items from various countries around the world and also selling some 20 items, some of them expensive. Greetings from a Romanian who has no intention to immigrate to UK ( or whatever other country for that matter
No because I worked for a company regularly scammed by eastern European countries. ..
