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| | | Author: | Yourbricks  | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 04:16 | | Subject: | Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help. 
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| | | | | Author: | helge | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 04:42 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Yourbricks writes:
| | Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help.
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If the forwarding company is within EU and the order is above 150 EUR, they will
not accept the package, and it will be returned. I think it is OK for orders
bellow 150 EUR, and the VAT has been collected by BrickLink. Forwarding companies
in the US has worked OK for me, but I have not had many of those.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Yourbricks | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 04:59 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Hei Helge 
Yes, I mean forwarding companies in US.
Yourbricks
In Help, helge writes:
| | In Help, Yourbricks writes:
| | Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help.
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If the forwarding company is within EU and the order is above 150 EUR, they will
not accept the package, and it will be returned. I think it is OK for orders
bellow 150 EUR, and the VAT has been collected by BrickLink. Forwarding companies
in the US has worked OK for me, but I have not had many of those.
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| | | | | Author: | brac.brick | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 06:12 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Yourbricks writes:
| | Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help.
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There are varying opinions on this one. I personally do not care where the buyer
wants it sent- I ship to the Paypal address for those orders and the BL address
for Stripe.
I work in ecommerce full time and we have buyers who use freight forwarders all
the time. The only time it is an issue is if the buyer asks to change the address
after the purchase and Paypal is used for payment. Under the seller protection
clause or agreement, you have to ship to the Paypal address to not get hit with
any penalties if there is a dispute down the road.
Not sure if this answers your question. There are sellers on this forum who will
not ship to freight forwwarders on principal. I've never had an issue nor
do I make it one.
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 07:27 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Yourbricks writes:
| | Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help.
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I have never had an issue with a buyer using a freight forwarder. Maybe a few
others have, but I don't think to a greater degree than with regular customers.
One small issue is that you'd be foregoing PayPal seller protection (if you're
using PayPal) because the ultimate delivery address is something other than the
PayPal address. So the seller could be held responsible if the package is delivered
to the freight forwarder, but the freight forwarder screws up delivering it to
the buyer. This seems to be pretty rare though.
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| | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 07:31 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Oh, and don't be alarmed if there isn't any sales tax added to the order
and collected by BrickLink - many (most?) freight forwarders are located in states
in the USA that don't have a state sales tax (e.g. Oregon).
In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, Yourbricks writes:
| | Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help.
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I have never had an issue with a buyer using a freight forwarder. Maybe a few
others have, but I don't think to a greater degree than with regular customers.
One small issue is that you'd be foregoing PayPal seller protection (if you're
using PayPal) because the ultimate delivery address is something other than the
PayPal address. So the seller could be held responsible if the package is delivered
to the freight forwarder, but the freight forwarder screws up delivering it to
the buyer. This seems to be pretty rare though.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Yourbricks | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 10:27 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Ok, thanks everyone for the help
Yourbricks
In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | Oh, and don't be alarmed if there isn't any sales tax added to the order
and collected by BrickLink - many (most?) freight forwarders are located in states
in the USA that don't have a state sales tax (e.g. Oregon).
In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, Yourbricks writes:
| | Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help.
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I have never had an issue with a buyer using a freight forwarder. Maybe a few
others have, but I don't think to a greater degree than with regular customers.
One small issue is that you'd be foregoing PayPal seller protection (if you're
using PayPal) because the ultimate delivery address is something other than the
PayPal address. So the seller could be held responsible if the package is delivered
to the freight forwarder, but the freight forwarder screws up delivering it to
the buyer. This seems to be pretty rare though.
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| | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 10:01 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 10:14 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Yourbricks writes:
| | Lately, I have received some orders, where the buyers use an address of forwarding
company.
Somebody have experience with it? It is normal? safe?
Thanks for the help.
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I've shipped to many forwarders and had only one issue that was resolved
when I was able to provide an image of the package with the label showing that
I had sent it with the correct information. I would document your order before
you send and then hope for the best!
Jen
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| | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2022 11:51 | | Subject: | Re: Opinion about forwarding company | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I’ve shipped to American shipping forwarding companies for multiple high $ orders
and haven’t had any problems even to 0 feedback users so in general it’s completely
fine
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