[78-L] international shipping?

Darrell Lehman nickjay49 at gmail.com.invalid
Thu Jan 24 10:49:14 PST 2019


Don't be surprised if they want $25 for each!  And have you been hit 
with the "sales tax" yet?  Good thing you don't live in WA or MN - look 
out PA and AZ!!!

Malcolm wrote:
> And here's the kicker. eBay will not allow the buyer to send the package
> to any address other than the person who bought it on eBay. I was going
> to have the single record shipped to an address in Britain a mere 60
> miles from the originator so it would be included in some other records
> a fellow collector is holding for me. Since it was in-country it would
> have cost me around $4.00 US! But no, eBay won't allow that. They also
> will not allow any adjustment to their set shipping price.
> Highway robbery it is.
> However, the seller is holding another record I want which closes in a
> couple of days so if I win it that should bring down the shipping price
> for each record to a more reasonable level. We shall see.
> Malcolm R
>
> *******
>
> On 1/24/2019 7:17 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Wow. I've heard about this elsewhere (on the Feetsbook pages)..certainly not
>> encouraging, although I always saw ludicrous shipping costs for anything I won
>> from England or Europe and tried to get them piggybacked on items I knew were
>> already being shipped to Canada by having them sent to those people.
>>
>> And I stopped eBay selling altogether when I was no longer travelling to the US
>> where I could send stuff cheapo from Lewiston. A record or a 78 album sent from
>> Canada runs $25-35 or more if it's safely packed, so fuggedaboudit.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>
>> On 1/24/2019 12:13 PM, Malcolm 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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