Hi Olivia, thank you very much for taking the time to reply and help, I appreciate it :-)! Unfortunately it happens every once in a while that sellers, even after being contacted personally, refuse to ship to me to Belgium, thus excluding me from auctions, sales ... ; this is particularly annoying because I am a collector and some items are very rare and don't show up often nor can they simply be found and bought elsewhere, therefore I was very happy to find out about those services as they seem to be the perfect solution for this problem. After browsing a while it turned out there are quite a few companies and my guess is that many (european) online shoppers face the same problem, therefore I had expected to find a somewhat more helpful solution for Paypal payment/ protection concerning these transactions. I don't really understand why it is being considered a high security risk, after all the companies are official, can easily be found online and they (PlanetExpress) confirmed that it is legal to have an adress with them. The fact that I don't live there is obvious and their street adress is general but they add a number for each registered customer, so my personal adress, due to the number, is unique. Once the item reaches them, I can pick and choose from several shipping services like USPS, UPS, DHL (all official too) add insurance + tracking and have the customs declaration filled out, then, they send it to me just like the seller usually does, transferring the risk to the carrier. Anyway, it would be awesome if you could tell me if there is anything I actually can do to use Paypal on an item that will be forwarded by PlanetExpress, and which service I can (or can't) expect in the case of trouble? Thank you so much again, this was my first question to the community, I am glad you replied ;-)! Kind regards, take care Sabrina
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