11 Jul
2001
11 Jul
'01
1:45 a.m.
At 03:30 PM 7/10/01 -0700, Gene Buckle wrote:
At the risk of stating the obvious, it's not unusual to
photograph something of value for insurance purposes, and
of course this has to be done before it is lost. What's
wrong with asking if you have any proof that the item was
in the box? Perhaps you have the photo, perhaps you don't.
Fraud has to be foremost in the mind of anyone receiving
and processing claims like this. For that matter, anyone
selling or shipping anything must be wary of this, too.
If you sold 20 pounds of old computer junk to someone on
eBay, and they claimed the box only had 3 pounds in it
when it arrived, wouldn't it help to have a picture of
the junk in the box before the box was taped for shipment?
- John
to provide
photographs of the missing items? Come again??? I almost sent
them a blank photograph with the caption 'Here are the missing items. You
can't see them because they are missing'.
I've got to remember this on the chance that some US shipping service does
a similar thing. Priceless Tony, just *priceless*. *rofl*