This hasn't happened to me yet, but I'm just curious how exactly to resolve the problem of when a seller ships a chip and the shipment gets lost or arrives damaged. The Carl Cole/Dean Clark situation is what brings it up. I don't know all the details of what happened there, but if I ship something to someone, and postal insurance is not purchased, who is responsible if the shipment is lost or the package gets torn and the item falls out? As a buyer who receives an empty package, I would have to blame the Post Office or whoever the shipping agent is, and it is they who should make restitution, unless the item was not shipped properly (such as a loose chip in a plain envelope). However, if insurance is not purchased, the shipping agent probably won't give you a thing. In this case, should it be the seller's responsiblity to give the buyer's money back? In the seller's case, the item was shipped in good faith. In the buyer's case, the item was not received.

I am looking forward to hearing anyone's opinion on this.