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Ebay: What foriegn countries do you ship too?

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RedBeard

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I am a pretty active eBay seller and I get a lot of interest from foreign buyers. I usually refuse requests but I have shipped items out to Canada, England, and Australia. (tends to equal extra paper work)

What countries do you feel comfortable shipping to? (Nigerian jokes aside) Or should I adopt isolationist policies?

Payments accepted via paypal, shipped via the US postal service.
 
Who pays for import taxes and tariffs when you ship, RedBeard?

That's one thing I would consider.
 
Originally posted by: Regs
Who pays for import taxes and tariffs when you ship, RedBeard?

That's one thing I would consider.
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The buyer would pay fees if I agreed.

Wow, looks like I should stick with the US.
 
I ship mostly internationally.

For what I sell (computer processors and RAM), allowing international bidders really drives up prices. From a little study I did last year, I found that allowing everyone with a PayPal account to bid, final bids were about 52% higher on CPUs.
 
Canada once. I do US only now. However I still get emails from time to time about CA shipments. I believe I allowed one guy who paid a little extra. He told me to recalculate the rate to CA and account for customs and what not and he would pay that fee. But typically I try to do US only.
 
Originally posted by: RedBeard
I am a pretty active eBay seller and I get a lot of interest from foreign buyers. I usually refuse requests but I have shipped items out to Canada, England, and Australia. (tends to equal extra paper work)

What countries do you feel comfortable shipping to? (Nigerian jokes aside) Or should I adopt isolationist policies?

Payments accepted via paypal, shipped via the US postal service.
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Just Ohio
 
Originally posted by: keeleysam
I ship mostly internationally.

For what I sell (computer processors and RAM), allowing international bidders really drives up prices. From a little study I did last year, I found that allowing everyone with a PayPal account to bid, final bids were about 52% higher on CPUs.
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And probably 52% more hassle.
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: keeleysam
I ship mostly internationally.

For what I sell (computer processors and RAM), allowing international bidders really drives up prices. From a little study I did last year, I found that allowing everyone with a PayPal account to bid, final bids were about 52% higher on CPUs.
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And probably 52% more hassle.
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Hassle-wise it's not much more than filling out one extra form that has your address, the address that it is being shipped to, contents (can be pretty general, personal effects covers a lot of stuff) and approximate value. I made it clear that they were responsible for any other fee or paperwork that popped up. It can depend on the item and it's value but it's funny that some people think you need to file all these different kinds of paperwork.

When I used to sell on eBay I would ship anywhere as long as they paid, depending on how I was feeling about the bidder I would take Paypal, international money orders (with a waiting period, up to a couple of weeks) or Western Union (as a seller, it's the most secure way to get payment). I've shipped to the UK, Russia, and had a good repeat customer from Saudi Arabia.
 
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