Shipping to other countries - Looking for advice

[Darrin]

USPS will be the cheapest by far, but they can only track and insure the goods while they are inside the USA so if they get lost after that then it's your problem.

Fedex and UPS will ship overseas and give you online tracking right up to the person's front door, but you will pay a hell of a lot more (up to 3 times as much!).  I sent a laptop to my brother in England with insurance and tracking and it came to $190 (discounted as they were having a "special" that day).  USPS was $60.

Personally, I wouldn't ship to someone off eBay without tracking and insurance or you're asking for trouble.

[Darrin]

Chain wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't ship to someone off eBay without tracking and insurance or you're asking for trouble.

It depends on many factors (value of item etc), but let me say this...
im buyer on ebay now for almost 7 years, got almost 350 packages, where only circa 20 of them was shipped as insured.
i have only two or three lost items during those years, fortunately they was cheap (512kb ram card, two magazines).

From a buyer's perspective it is a bit different because you know you're honest and you're prepared to take the risk.

For a seller it is a bit different because not only is he running the risk of losing his items, he also has to refund the buyer.  Meanwhile the evil buyer could be playing with your A4000 which he just got for "free".  ;-)