Posted by Pops1532 on March 23, 2014 at 23:42:28 from (98.227.133.60):
In Reply to: eBay is getting to me posted by farmer boy on March 23, 2014 at 08:40:37:
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I'm not familiar with ebay's international shipping program. I don't do much selling now. When I was selling a lot they didn't have that feature. There are or at least were two different customs forms and it seemed which form was the correct one depended on who waited on you at the post office. Maybe it wasn't that bad but t sure seemed like it.
Then there's the fact that most Canadian buyers wanted us to falsify the customs forms because they had to pay taxes when they received the item. I would estimate at least 80% of Canadian buyers asked or told us to do that....even after we told them we wouldn't.
We ran into a snag shipping frog spears to another country. Apparently you can't ship weapons to whatever country those went to. I had to convince the postal clerk that frog spears were tools and not weapons.
Then there's the shipping cost.....which EVERY buyer from Europe complained about. One guy begged me to let him bid on an automotive shop manual he needed for a vintage car. As I recall the manual sold for around $20 and the shipping cost $22!!!! Of course the buyer complained to me and threatened negative feedback but I only charged him what the USPS charged me. Then another European buyer wanted me to ship a manual the cheapest way possible. I did just that. He complained that it took two months to get the manual. The delivery hold up was due to his country's postal service.
In the latter years that I sold on ebay we could print the shipping labels and schedule the packages to be picked up, rather than having to take them to the post office. We couldn't do that with international sales. They may be different now.
International sales just weren't worth the hassle so we stopped.
My wife recently sold something on ebay. It was the first thing she sold there in a long time. She specified no international sales. Someone begged her to let them bid so she gave in. Of course that buyer won the item. I don't know what the issue was, but there was an issue with ebay's invoice system in regards to international sales. They were able to work out the problem satisfactorily. It was just the typical hassle that comes with international sales on ebay.
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