I accept PayPal, money orders (best from your local Post Office), certified/cashier's checks, and personal checks as payment.
ALL forms of checks must clear and will be deposited on the one day of the week we can do this--every Thursday. No item paid by check will ship unless that payment has cleared both banks.
Payment must be received no later than 12 days after auction end. If payment has not been received within that time-frame (and if the buyer has not contacted us regarding a delay in payment), a Non-Paying Bidder Complaint will be filed with ebay to recover our listing and final value fees and if that process ends without payment receipt the item will be re-listed, the buyer will be blocked from future bids on J.D.Katz, Inc items, and ebay will give the buyer a strike on their membership.
NY STATE BUYERS:
DO NOT PAY IMMEDIATELY, PLEASE SELECT THE REQUEST TOTAL FROM SELLER LINK SO I CAN INCLUDE YOUR CORRECT SALES TAX IN THE INVOICE.
MULTIPLE ITEM BUYERS:
I GLADLY COMBINE ITEMS IN SHIPPING TO SAVE MY BUYERS SOME SHIPPING FEES BUT CAN ONLY DO THIS IF YOU FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE DO NOT PAY IMMEDIATELY BY PAYPAL, OR CHECKOUT BY INDICATING THAT YOU WILL BE PAYING FOR AN ITEM VIA MONEY ORDER, ETC.
EMAIL ME AND TELL ME THE ITEMS YOU WANT COMBINED. OR, SELECT THE REQUEST TOTAL FROM SELLER LINK AT THE UPPER LEFT OF ANY COMPLETED AUCTION. I WILL THEN SEND YOU AN EBAY GENERATED COMBINED INVOICE. PLEASE WAIT FOR THIS INVOICE, BEFORE PAYING!
PAYPAL PAYMENTS FROM UNCONFIRMED ADDRESSES:
IF YOU PAY BY PAYPAL, I CAN ONLY SHIP TO CONFIRMED US ADDRESSES AND I CAN ONLY ACCEPT PAYPAL PAYMENTS FROM ACCOUNTS WITH CONFIRMED US ADDRESSES. To be covered under the PayPal Seller Protection Policy, I MUST ship to the confirmed address linked to the payment. Please do not ask me to ship to another address, different from the one in your payment. I cannot do that. Moreover, if you have one address linked to your ebay account and a different one on your PayPal payment, the PayPal payment address is the one the package will be shipped to. SO, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOUR PAYPAL CONFIRMED ADDRESS IS CORRECT. NOTE: PAYPAL AND EBAY WILL NOT MAKE ADDRESS OR PERSONAL INFORMATION CHANGES TO YOUR ACCOUNTS FOR YOU. They are your accounts and it is your responsibility to keep them current.
INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS:
I CAN NOT ACCEPT AN INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED PAYMENT NOR CAN I SHIP THIS ITEM OUTSIDE THE US.
I test ALL cameras, ALL flashes, ALL lenses, etc. before they are wrapped for shipping. I am incredibly anal about how I prepare and pack my items for shipping and label all items with SEVERAL labels telling the way the item was rated in the listing , what is included, when it was produced, and other important notes and tips relevant to the item (e.g. warnings about leaving batteries in items, about how to clean items, etc). No one else does this and it takes time and costs extra money that most sellers are not willing to give up.
I pack better than the vast majority of ebay sellers and ONLY USE FRESH bubble wrap and other consumables. ALL lenses, flashes and cameras are bagged before being wrapped. All alkaline batteries are removed and bagged. I do not use shredded paper, newspaper, diapers, socks, plastic garbage bags, etc. (like most my competition) to protect your important items in shipping. My consumables costs are very high and they are reflected in my shipping costs.I wrap all bicycle frames with foam rubber tubing, using dozens of plastic wire ties. The front and rear ends are blocked to protect against collapse and then the whole frame is wrapped in large bubble wrap before being inserted into a customized, double-walled bike box that I pay for and that price and all consumables are included in the shipping fee, including insurance.
I only ship two ways: USPS First Class Mail (for the very small items), and USPS Priority Mail, for everything else. I have shipped over 14,000 packages via USPS and they are, BY FAR, the best couriers for domestic shipping. They pick up at my home 6 days a week but there are times they can not and I have to drive the packages to my local Post Office. The price of gas and time spent driving to the Post Office are included in my shipping fees. All my packages get electronic/on-line labeling and those labels cost me for each one (the actual cost of the three part label plus the fee the on-line service charges me) plus every box gets at least on LARGE Fragile Sticker and all bubble envelopes get stamped Fragile in two places. The stickers, stamps and the ton of package tape I use to seal my packages all cost a lot (and the prices go up yearly). These costs are included in my shipping fees.
I ship next day after proper payment receipt/or payment clearing (far better than most eBay sellers), and my services are typically 2-3 days for Priority Mail, or 3-4 days for First Class Mail. This is as good as you will find on eBay and far better than most online stores. All packages carry delivery confirmation numbers (that service costs extra for First Class packages) and those costs are included in the total shipping price. All packages with items worth over $250 carry Signature Confirmation numbers (an extra cost for any USPS package). These confirmation numbers are given to the buyer in an email sent from my online service within 24 hours from the time the label was generated. The confirmation number IS NOT a tracking number and will only show up when the item is delivered or there was an attempted delivery by the USPS. Like any business, when the USPS raises their rates, I will respond with raises in my rates.
We stand behind all our sales with a full refund policy, which INCLUDES return-shipping fees, if any of our items (excluding those sold as is with no returns is found to be SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT than what I have described. The item must be returned, with all parts, in the same condition as shipped by J.D.Katz, Inc., within 14 days of the buyer receiving the item.
The reason why we use the term significantly different (besides the fact that that is the term ebay and PayPal use to identify misrepresented items) is because ratings are based on opinions and while we may rate something as excellent, a buyer may feel it is only very good. So, to allow for this possible difference in opinion, an item must be significantly different to be covered by my return policy. We rarely sell items as is with no returns. This is because we trust our ability to sell accurately described items. The only items we list as as is/no returns will be listed as for parts or for repair items or have a defect that is clearly noted and the price of the item will be reduced so much that it must be sold as a no return item.
WE DO NOT ACCEPT RETURNS DUE TO A BUYER NOT READING THE LISTING DESCRIPTION, OR DECIDING THE ITEMS DOES NOT LOOK RIGHT WHEN USED WITH OTHER ITEMS, OR DUE TO THE BUYER HOPING TO RECEIVE AN ITEM BETTER THAN DESCRIBED. BUYER'S REMORSE IS NOT AN ACCEPTED REASON FOR RETURNING AN AUCTION PURCHASE.
BEWARE OF SELLERS WHO CLAIM TO HAVE LISTED THE ITEM ACCURATELY, TESTED THE ITEM, CLAIM IT WORKS PERFECTLY AND THEN HAVE AN AS IS/NO RETURN POLICY. If the item is described correctly and works as described, then that seller should stand behind their description and take it back if it was NOT as described.
We (my wife and myself) have been selling Minolta Maxxum cameras, lenses, flashes, bicycle frames, bicycle components, and other related items for well over 7 years on ebay.
We are a legitimate, NY State Corporation and declare all our ebay income to the IRS and NY State authorities and we charge appropriate in-state sale tax. Most my competition are illegal sellers and sooner or later the IRS will catch up to them. They will have a lot of explaining and fast talking to do before they are fined, or jailed.
When it comes to selling Maxxum items, we have been selling on ebay longer than virtually ALL used Maxxum sellers on ebay and we are arguably this country's number one private seller of used Maxxum items--I doubt there is any other private seller with over 14,000 used Maxxum sales (and over 15,500 total ebay sales).
We are also a member of Square Trade and we are a Trading Assistant (so I can sell your items on ebay). You can be assured of a high level of selling professionalism when you transact with us.
We consistently run between 100 and 225 ebay auctions daily and have been a third tier, GOLD LEVEL EBAY POWER SELLER for over three years AND WE ARE A MEMBER OF TSAM--ebay's TOP SELLER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM where we get a SENIOR LEVEL Ebay Account Manager to handle our account. Just because a seller has a Power Seller icon next to their ID does not mean they are at the same level as other Power Sellers.
WHAT YOU GET FROM J.D.Katz, Inc:
Honest, accurate descriptions of items that I have tested prior to listing them.
All photos shown in my listings are of THE ACTUAL ITEM I will ship to you.
Arguably the best packing you will find on ebay (see my feedback for references).
Arguably the fastest shipping you will find on ebay (again, refer to my feedback).
Arguably the best customer service and communication you will find on ebay.
ALL my items (with the exception of the few I have listed with described flaws and listed "as is") carry a FULL REFUND POLICY if not as described.
Finally, you get the assurance and confidence, that comes from transacting with a seller with a superb feedback rating (100% at time of this writing), and an extremely high customer repeat rate guaranteeing that your ebay transaction will be as expected.
We can be reached by emailing us at jkatz1@nycap.rr.com or by phone at (518) 793-5234. We answer about 150 emails daily so be patient since we respond to the emails in the order they are received.
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