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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: 23703jim on July 17, 2007, 05:23:28 PM
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take a look in ebay at item 260140294807 per haps it may be of interest to you. usa sales only :-D
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Link for the lazy people:
link (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260140294807&ru=http://search.ebay.com:80/260140294807_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40QQfviZ1)
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Why do you only ship to the USA? If the buyer is not from the US, but pays for shipping AND with money order, what's the problem?
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Nothing there I'd be super excited about... but you might have more luck if you sold those items separately.
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the reason i only sell in the usa is this. awhile back i sent items to spain, they paid with a cashiers check drawn on a spainish bank. good paper, only problem it took my bank almost 3 months to clear the check. the buyer it took almost 3 and half months to get his item.
never again....sales only in the usa.
my apoligies to our foreign friends.
no i do not take paypal.......
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what about bank transfer from a uk bank
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Not for me. I'm nearly broke and can't justify the cost for the reserve price.
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Yep I dealt with some pretty pissed off customers who bought items from me. One I sent surface mail not knowing how long it takes to get to Australia. They filed claims against me as it took over 3 months to get there!! Even left me a negative! Another UK bloke left negative cuz I charged him an extra buck over quoted postage rate for S/H (I even stated I charge handling) He left me a neg too. Ah the joys of international business! Hahaha
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Link for the lazy people:
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I used to sell on ebay, and I only would ship in the USA. There was too much scamming going on from bidders in other countries and getting shipping to happen correctly was a serious pain.
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DonnyEMU wrote:
There was too much scamming going on from bidders in other countries
OK, that's it ! Too much scamming from other countries ? You know the biggest scammers are always from the USA. What you gonna do when you get scammed by a US citizen (doomy ? boogiegail ?) ? Sell only in your neighborhood ? As long as you don't ship to dangerous places like nigeria or papua new ginea you're safe.
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I ship it anywhere the buyer is willing to pay me to ship it--payment in advance by paypal, of course. For small items there is no problem shipping anywhere. It pays to do your homework about shipping costs and time before you list. For some large and awkward items, I have restricted the auction to the US and Canada just because it was not econonomically feasable to sell them anywhere else. For some things that doesn't matter at all. I sold a record collection for around $450us and the buyer was in Germany and had no problem paying me $135 for shipping. Without Paypal,international Ebaying doesn't really work very well. I have also bought internationally occasionally--Hong Kong is the source for a lot of rare electronic components and I have never had a Hong Kong seller disapoint me although the delivery time was about 3 weeks. And my Merlin RTG card came from Finland and took less than a week to arrive.
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Frankly there is a lot of scamming from other countries.:-D
In North America (Can/Mex/USA) we can get paid via check, money order, paypal (which has seller protection). As soon as you sell overseas you sell with no paypal protection for seller (as in subject to chargebacks).
Biggest scammers are from USA? (overgeneralizing). I can say the same that Asians are biggest scammers (their product have little quality and always bizarre things-I may still throw that sh** MSI product out at my supplier) see this statement is overgeneralization also as a japanese product is not the same as chinese. What do you do when you get scammed by them??? nothing. No warranty, or its very limited warranty. so don't give me that nonsense about scam - its everywhere. also people pay lower than market prices (sometimes) on ebay and then complain about things - reminds me of the picasso IV buyer and Amix68 guy from germany.. (thread here on a.org.) Good Sellers are worldwide same as scammers.
I think the main reason for overseas business is that its expensive. postage is way higher. then cost of accepting / getting paid is higher too. Wire Transfer, Paypal fees and often reluctance of people from outside North America to send Money Order...
I also am reluctant to ship overseas. I also see & get the same when I buy anythign from japan or europe. Who makes the most money? UPS/DHL/Fedexs of the world...
PS I bought stuff from doomy and it turned out ok...