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Shipping items using COD?

post #1 of 13
10/12/09 at 2:14pm
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Has anyone shipped items using COD? The company is offering to pay with check once the merchandise is received, but I just don't feel comfortable giving them all the leverage. It seems that a lot of legit people work this way though.
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post #2 of 13
10/12/09 at 3:20pm
I have never heard of anyone doing this ever. I thought COD was a thing of the past, like wiring money or something.
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post #3 of 13
10/12/09 at 3:32pm
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Originally Posted by Davidko19 View Post
I have never heard of anyone doing this ever. I thought COD was a thing of the past, like wiring money or something.

This isn't a thing of the past either.
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post #4 of 13
10/12/09 at 6:56pm
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Originally Posted by taktikz View Post
Has anyone shipped items using COD? The company is offering to pay with check once the merchandise is received, but I just don't feel comfortable giving them all the leverage. It seems that a lot of legit people work this way though.

Company? Is this a commercial / wholesale / etc transaction?

Anyways, isnt COD Cash on Demand, not Check on Demand?

K
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post #5 of 13
10/12/09 at 7:51pm
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Originally Posted by VKK3450 View Post
Company? Is this a commercial / wholesale / etc transaction?

Anyways, isnt COD Cash on Demand, not Check on Demand?

K

In the UK, yes.
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post #6 of 13
10/12/09 at 7:55pm
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In the UK, yes.

Crazy English

K
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post #7 of 13
10/12/09 at 9:46pm
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Originally Posted by VKK3450 View Post
Company? Is this a commercial / wholesale / etc transaction? Anyways, isnt COD Cash on Demand, not Check on Demand? K
COD is cash on delivery.
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post #8 of 13
10/12/09 at 11:00pm
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Originally Posted by Gradstudent78 View Post
This isn't a thing of the past either.

If you're up on COD and wiring money, can you explain how both of them work? I alway thought it was a relic of the past like the telegraph too
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post #9 of 13
10/13/09 at 12:16am
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Originally Posted by FidelCashflow View Post
If you're up on COD and wiring money, can you explain how both of them work? I alway thought it was a relic of the past like the telegraph too

I don't know anything about CODs, but wiring money is just a transfer of funds from one location to another. I've wired money to friends in bolivia using western union, through their online site. It's a fairly easy process, you just need to know what western union location your sending the money, in whatever location you happen to be sending it. Any bank should be able to do it as well, as long as you have a bank account number to wire the money into.
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post #10 of 13
10/13/09 at 12:21am
Wiring money is huge business. particularly for people with family in developing countries. Billions of dollars are sent from richer countries to poorer ones as remittances using wire services. Google it.
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post #11 of 13
10/13/09 at 1:19am
yea but for the MAJORITY of americans they never have and never will use it.

Same concept as paypal and bank transfers I guess, but I dont even know where a western union is. Regardless, CoD sounds like an archaic institution
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post #12 of 13
10/13/09 at 2:01am
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Originally Posted by Davidko19 View Post
yea but for the MAJORITY of americans they never have and never will use it.

Same concept as paypal and bank transfers I guess, but I dont even know where a western union is. Regardless, CoD sounds like an archaic institution
Well, the world's a much bigger place than just the States...

Cash on Delivery is still used a lot even in North America. Everything from building materials to restaurant supplies.

Technically when you order take out that's COD.
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post #13 of 13
10/13/09 at 4:09am
It seems the use of COD in the US depends highly on whether it is for commercial or personal-consumer use and the type of industry. I have not seen any major companies offer consumer-products for COD to customers in the US. However, I have seen it commercially. Private parties can still use it as well. I do know that it is still available here. USPS still does it. See http://www.usps.com/send/waystosendm...eryservice.htm. Hope this helps.
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