Shippping out of the US

[hhwolfman]

I know that this is going to Flame on, but I have seen all these post of import shipping. Bitching and moaning about taxes and such. Cheating me on Postage threads. Now dont get me wrong I have shipped many items and overseas and recieved many too. With out a problem. Smille and Atari Charles are two good examples. (Thanks Guys.) I have shipped in a 15 year period of time, over 5000 items. I have had 3 problems. 2 to canada and one to England. All were sent air letter with of course no way of tracking. You cant iInsure or track air letter. Only Air parcel. Which is twice as expensive. I used to except world wide bidders on my auctions, but 10 out of 11 times i got a out of US bidder they would cry , moan bitch about postage. I only charge exact postage. No handling fee and no charge for packing ect. I had to make an extra trip to the post office to figure out postage for them, This is before I had my set up at the house. I had to fill out extra paper work and extra eamils. Ect. Always was asked to lie about Gift. With all that considered All that extra time and grief, Why in the world would I want to accept out of US Bidders. I now put up 10 to 30 items a week On ebay I work at my shop 50 hours a week and take care of my family Iust dont have time for this. . I Have all postage charts and scale at my house now. I can figure out what postage is anywhere. If a out of Us bidder wants to bid on my auction and is nice and polite on his email and or I have dealt with before. I will send him an email with my terms of only sending Air parcel with insurance and Yeah i check the gift box. LOL But that is the only way I ship. All the people on AA that are out of Us seemed to be very nice people I like you all and I am sorry that postage is so High and that Taxes are outragous, but its not my fault. All these threads bitching and moaning about it Just proves my point Why should i go thrrough that everytime on out of Us bidder on ebay. Its just easier to ship to US. Well thats my two cents worth >

[UK WOMBLE]

I think most of us are pretty resonable on this subject.

 

From my own point of view I dont think the shipping cost US to UK is too bad, considering how far it travels, it costs a fair amount to send stuff in side the UK anyway, plus stuff is cheaper in the US generally so the postage doesnt really matter.

 

I do always ask for label to be marked gift, maybe thats dishonest, but I dont think so. I pay a ton of taxes every year and get very little back for it, all it does is make the rich richer and pay for more people to be murdered overseas for 'freedom'. Screw the govt, they get enough taxes anyway.....

 

I always ask before bidding on foreign auction if it says US only or suchlike, havent been refused by anyone yet, I think so long as you email to show good intention and manners most people are ok about shipping overseas.

 

We realise its more hassle to ship overseas, but to be fair on a lot of auctions its the UK buyers who push the prices up, especially with exchange rates as they are, I think most US members on this forum would agree that this is true.

 

Just an opinion, no flame-thing,

 

Si

[hhwolfman]

I think most of us are pretty resonable on this subject.

 

From my own point of view I dont think the shipping cost US to UK is too bad, considering how far it travels, it costs a fair amount to send stuff in side the UK anyway, plus stuff is cheaper in the US generally so the postage doesnt really matter.

 

I do always ask for label to be marked gift, maybe thats dishonest, but I dont think so. I pay a ton of taxes every year and get very little back for it, all it does is make the rich richer and pay for more people to be murdered overseas for 'freedom'. Screw the govt, they get enough taxes anyway.....  

 

I always ask before bidding on foreign auction if it says US only or suchlike, havent been refused by anyone yet, I think so long as you email to show good intention and manners most people are ok about shipping overseas.

 

We realise its more hassle to ship overseas, but to be fair on a lot of auctions its the UK buyers who push the prices up, especially with exchange rates as they are, I think most US members on this forum would agree that this is true.    

 

Just an opinion, no flame-thing,    

 

Si

 

Yes my friend You are one of the good ones. All though we have never done a deal, I have read your posts and R Speaks Higly of you.

[The Lurking Horror]

I only care if my game will arrive at my home safely. If the shipping is too costly... I will pay it anyway. If what I want to have doesn't exist in my own country I'll have to buy it from some other country that have it.

 

I didn't understand why some dumbasses keep whining about shipping costs. The most I paid for shipping was US$ 21.00 for a package in Japan. It's a lot of money but It's what the guys at Japan Post Service want to send packages to the other side of the planet. I don't like to spend money in shipping but there's no way to solve this problem.

[deathtrappomegranate]

Personally, I've always found the costs of USPS shipping to be very reasonable. I've never asked anyone to tick the wrong box on a customs label.

 

I always ask before bidding un "US only" auctions, or "Versand nur nach Deutschland" ones (I've never seen a "Canada only" one, though!), and sellers almost always agree (one has said no so far, out of over 100).

 

I sell on eBay sometimes, as well. I've not had any great difficulty with sending items abroad. I think that it makes sense to make your stuff available to the widest possible market, but if someone only wants to ship within their own country, that's up to them.

 

I did see an Australian Atari auction a while back in which the seller would only ship outside Australia...there must be an intersting story there!

[Clock]

I recently sent a Xbox to StarScream (UK - USA £55 - $90+) interestingly when he sent it back to the UK it cost significantly less ($70)and I also had to pay customs when it arrived (£23).

 

People in the UK pay out a lot more than our friends in the US so that is why we ask favours like make it look like a gift etc. I don't think its always moaning its just trying to save a bit of money.

 

I've never complained about over seas shipping - as you say it goes a long way, I'm just glad when it arrives.

[deathtrappomegranate]

I'm not sure that we get such a bad deal.

 

The weak dollar (for the time being) means that we get good value for our pounds...I haven't had to pay tax as often as I'd expected.

 

I don't think that it's fair to ask someone to make a false declaration on a customs form |

 

...although I've never complained when people have done that for me .

[sku_u]

I have shipped all over the world, though not nearly on the scale hh has. One thing I've always had a problem with is people complaining about how long it took to get there, and this was coming from independant deals outside of Ebay (no one from AA). I think this is one of the main reasons why so many US sellers are reluctant to sell to overseas buyers unless they know who they are dealing with.

[ATARIPITBULL]

I too have shipped Atari items out of the U.S., but when I sell something, I always say that shipping is extra and won't know how much till I get there address, so these people should not act all dumb and say " I DID NOT KNOW IT WAS GOING TO COST THAT MUCH FOR SHIPPING!!!!" when they know good and well it was not going to be cheap. I always get both shipping charges for a person buying from me and give them the choise and when a person buys a big item like a CIB atari system and thought it was only going to cost about $5.00 to ship, but they had the $100.00 for the system, it just makes me laugh.

 

I'm just like you wolfman, I don't charge for boxing or handling the item to the post office and the price the post office gives me is the price the buyer is paying, nothing more, nothing less.

 

Some people just want you to give them everything for free, so I guess i'm the only asshole who has to pay everyone else for my stuff.

 

[Curt Vendel]

I've shipped out so many out of US packages I've lost count over the years, I've had 2 packages go awol but all others have made it (2 arrived damaged unfortunately to the buyers). All I can give them is the customs# and there is little on can do on this end as the USPS always says that the receiver should contact their local PO in their own city and give them the customs# so they can first check and see if the package has even arrived in their country and where it may be.

 

I had one really bad incident where the custom's # saved the day, I shipped out a HUGE box filled with about 50-60 Atari programs, brand new sealed stuff and what had happened is the address I had was out of date, the guy had moved and the box went to his old address, the person living there not only accepted the box, but actually had opened it. The actual intended owner went to his old address and confronted the illegal receiver and got all his stuff, fortunately the guy had no idea what he had illegal taken, so it was all untouched and the intended legit receiver got his stuff in take. But he had to contact the PO, give them all the info and wait for them to give him the status first, but fortunately all turned out well.

 

So at least the customs# does help out on out of US shipments.

 

 

 

Curt