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<blockquote data-quote="123" data-source="post: 235944"><p><strong>Re: Discuss" B.C. man sets off class-action lawsuit against UPS over hidden brokerage</strong></p><p></p><p>The following may be slightly off-point, but may be of interest to those assessed these brokerage fees or who have to collect them. I live in the US, and sold a pair of slacks (very nice ones) on ebay to a man in Vancouver in May of this year. Today (8/27) I received a letter from FedEx informing me that I will be charged brokerage fees of just over $106. I've mailed packages to Canada via FeDEx ground before and never had any such fees assessed, so was unaware that the shipper could be charged brokerage fees, which I had never heard of, automatically and without recourse. The buyer of the pants has ignored my emails and my phone calls (he's an attorney, it turns out; imagine that). FedEx told me today that the recipient of the package would have had to have refused to pay the fees three times, and then FedEx went ahead and delivered the package anyway, billing me. I find this astonishing and outrageous. First, that FedEx does not inform shippers of these hidden fees; second, that FedEx did not notify me that the recipient was refusing to pay the fees and that I *might* be charged; third, that FedEx waited about three months after delivery to inform me of these charges, when it is too late to reasonably expect the buyer to pay for them; fourth, that FedEx has terms in its fine print that disallow class action lawsuits, since this behavior would be ripe for class adjudication, at least in the U.S.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="123, post: 235944"] [b]Re: Discuss" B.C. man sets off class-action lawsuit against UPS over hidden brokerage[/b] The following may be slightly off-point, but may be of interest to those assessed these brokerage fees or who have to collect them. I live in the US, and sold a pair of slacks (very nice ones) on ebay to a man in Vancouver in May of this year. Today (8/27) I received a letter from FedEx informing me that I will be charged brokerage fees of just over $106. I've mailed packages to Canada via FeDEx ground before and never had any such fees assessed, so was unaware that the shipper could be charged brokerage fees, which I had never heard of, automatically and without recourse. The buyer of the pants has ignored my emails and my phone calls (he's an attorney, it turns out; imagine that). FedEx told me today that the recipient of the package would have had to have refused to pay the fees three times, and then FedEx went ahead and delivered the package anyway, billing me. I find this astonishing and outrageous. First, that FedEx does not inform shippers of these hidden fees; second, that FedEx did not notify me that the recipient was refusing to pay the fees and that I *might* be charged; third, that FedEx waited about three months after delivery to inform me of these charges, when it is too late to reasonably expect the buyer to pay for them; fourth, that FedEx has terms in its fine print that disallow class action lawsuits, since this behavior would be ripe for class adjudication, at least in the U.S. [/QUOTE]
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