[78-L] international shipping?

[Kristjan Saag]

Five minutes ago I got a 6 dollar refund from Amazon because of reduced 
export fee on my last order (a book).
Things are getting better.
Kristjan



On 2019-01-24 18:26, David Weiner wrote:
> Sending a single 78 to Europe usually works out to $22, no matter what 
> service I use to ship it. My philosophy is, if you want it, you'll pay 
> it. Dave Weiner On 1/24/19, 12:20 PM, "Dustin Wittmann" 
> <78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com on behalf of 
> dpwittmann at gmail.com.invalid> wrote: The Global Shipping program is 
> completely voluntary and generally entered into only by completely 
> clueless vendors who are too stupid to print off an international 
> label and complete a customs declaration. It just uses eBay as an 
> intermediary to do the big scary international shipping for you. They 
> charge ripoff level rates to pad their coffers. That said, $25 isn't 
> that bad for international shipping. Maybe a little high. Most higher 
> end dealers charge somewhere in that neighborhood. On Thu, Jan 24, 
> 2019, 11:14 AM Malcolm <malcolm at 78data.com.invalid wrote: > > I don't 
> think I've see this mentioned here before, and I may be the only > one 
> on the planet that didn't know about it since I don't have Facebook, > 
> but here goes. I recently found a 78 on eBay that I wanted and won the 
> > auction. Record sold for a very nice price and it's in England. 
> Turns > out there's some kind of shipping agreement eBay, as a 
> business, has > with Britain and, I am assuming, most other 
> international sellers. > Turns out there's a good reason for the low 
> seller's price. The shipping > for one 78 now costs me almost $25 USD. 
> My well priced record now > becomes a high priced one. The terms are 
> called the "eBay.com Global > Shipping Program" with an effective date 
> of Sept. 12, 2014. You can go > here to see it: > 
> https://pages.ebay.com/shipping/globalshipping/buyer-tnc.html > I am 
> royally shocked. I have paid for and received 78s from Europe and > 
> Britain since 2014 and never been hit so hard for shipping. Maybe it's 
> > because I bought from individuals and the terms of the eBay 
> agreement do > not seem to apply there. > This program stifles 
> international commerce on a small scale (I'm sure > there are nice 
> breaks for wholesale or bulk buyers/sellers) and is > seemingly 
> discriminatory. Instead of promoting international trade it > 
> effectively stifles it. The swine. > So, no more records for me from 
> anywhere except the good ol' Ewe Ess Ay! > Comments? > Malcolm R > 
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