Clarifications/advice on shipping high-value products | Payments and Shipping

nerevarinez · 2025-09-14T19:57:13.060000Z

Hello everyone and good evening. Just out of curiosity (since, at least for the moment, my question is not about a real/specific shipment) I wanted to ask you: when you sell a product of high monetary value (let’s say, in a specific case, a rare and valuable book, for example around €500/1000 or thereabouts), what is the best way to "protect yourself" from any problems/unforeseen issues etc. (parcel lost, damage and so on)? I should say that, in the years I’ve been shipping, among shipments with low, medium or even high-value contents, I’ve never had any problems (never lost parcels etc. — only once, incidentally with a shipment not through Ebay but another platform, the parcel was completely lost and I was regularly reimbursed after checks by the platform staff/support), however, just out of curiosity, I’ve always wanted to understand a bit more about the issue of insured shipments (I mean with additional insurance, the extra one so to speak) and things like that. For example, when you find yourselves shipping high-value products, how do you handle it? I’ll say upfront that I’m not a professional seller, so let’s say I’m interested in understanding, precisely as a non-professional seller (and therefore without the "tools" that pros surely have available for things like this, such as insurance etc... at least I think...?) how, including and especially other non-pro users, you deal with cases like this (of course pro users’ experiences/advice/opinions are also very welcome). Thanks!

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