International buttholes on eBay

[CLS2086]

Sending a packet to my town (at 2km from Paris) to some family's friends in Ameno (80 km of Turin - North of Italy)... 14 days !
Just think that it took me 12h to drive to them...
In "Eco" sending mode, a packet took between 14 and 27 days to arrive to the "customs"... after that I all about luck...

Why so much seller refuse to send to Spain, Italy, France ?
Because so many packet are lost...
Because so many look like counterfeist items and are stopped by the customs without a word, and others some are stopped by post's providers for "personnals reasons"...
Because some doesn't comply RoHs and other Euro or local "laws" (NF/TüV/....)
Because the post's guys smashed it during basketball/handball/.... trainings
Because there was a strange moving sound coming from inside and take look and lost it...
And so on ...

I remember also quite well a packet with a Sega Saturn games with nice Irish stamps featuring painted animals. The packet arrived with just 2 stamps (which is impossible due to the weight), a few days after I went to my post office and saw the 6 missing stamps on the wall ... I know it was mine because of the irish post date print on them, and the cut of the round buffer...

[ChaosLord]

I have placed some very complicated orders with Red and he always filled them correctly and professionally.  No problems whatsoever.

[Kin-Hell]

I did wonder why International buttholes might be on sale, but joking aside....

@ Ideal

Red & I have done business in the past without issue, despite having crossed feelings about one particular matter. Two things I know Red does not do, is take peoples money & not ship the goods. Perhaps you should consider a new on-line name as Ideal is definitely not befitting your overwhelming, inappropriate & very slanderous behaviour.

I also knew some months ago about you ripping off Arnljot over the cabinet for a darn sight more money than a measly twenty bucks. Knowing Arnljot very well indeed with personal business, I know he would not kick up such a fuss if you had not ripped him off in such a manner.

Poor show all round Mr.

Kin

[Darrin]

My wife informs me that my 2 packages from Jim arrived today.  Cheers Jim.  

[motrucker]

A note on shipping to Italy:
   A package was finally delivered, some 43 days after it was mailed Priority Mail International from just outside of Washington D.C.!  Now I'll never know if the Paypal Seller Protection Plan works....

[CLS2086]

I wonder what was the packet's path during these 43 days

[the-topdog]

Umm hey Ideal, what the heck is wrong with you?  The package was shipped and arrived overseas.  Did you pay for shipping insurance?  If so, the Postal Service will refund your money.  Otherwise take it up with your customs agency there.

People like you are EXACTLY why Red posted this thread.

[motrucker]

It looks like Italy is a singularly dangerous country to mail to, unless we use Express Mail International. Much of the trouble seems to be the Italian Postal Service. One package I had mailed Priority Mail International took 43 days to get delivered!!! I am so glad I have an honest customer, who told me it had been delivered, because the tracking on this one died asfter leaving my city.
It's getting harder to win....

[save2600]

It's getting harder to win....

Truer universal words have not been spoken as of late.

[papa_november]

you know, for a minute i thiought that someone had found a copy of a rare, previously unknown game called "international buttholes"

and was selling it on ebay

[recidivist]

I would.

Been looking for a copy of that movie everywhere.

I hate all the foreign subtitles.

[recidivist]

you know, for a minute i thiought that someone had found a copy of a rare, previously unknown game called "international buttholes"

and was selling it on ebay

Nope,most of them are in politics.

[smerf]

USPS Priority Mail is quoted as 6-10 business days, today is day 11 and I get this PayPal claim filed against me without customer contacting me first.

All of a sudden I am getting a landslide of scammers and just plain a-holes. The worst offenders are in Italy and Spain, but France is making a push lately.. Sigh.. Looks like I am going to start declining international sales this late in the game.

It is certainly time to quit!!! :furious:

Hi,

@red,

Hey Red,

You can't quit yet,

You sent me a tracking number on my purchase of an Amiga 1000 back in 1970, I have faithfully been tracking this number since that day and as you can recall through our million and one discussions on this order number the package has gone through Spain, Italy and is now on it's way to France and then hopefully through Germany and then to me in Pennsylvania. The next time I do business with you I will definetly follow your suggestion to use UPS shipping instead of regular postal service.

So you better not close down until I receive my parcel, you promised me that you would be helpful in any way that you could until I am completely satisfied with my purchase. If you close down and quit before I receive my purchase, I will definetly give you negitive feedback on your salesmanship.

As you said in our last discussion, it will only be another five years or at the most 7 years until I receive my Amiga 1000, anxiously awaiting the completion of this transaction.

Thank you Red for your great support and fast shipping on this transactionn

smerf

[espenbo]

I hope people continue to sell international and overseas.
I have bougth on ebay, amigakit, reds, vesalia and ggs data.
And they all is inn a driffrent country then where I live.
So please continue to sell to internasjonal buyers. Not everybody lives in the US.

Espen

[swoslover]

Has anyone had success using eBid? I am fed up of ebay and finding it almost worthless once their 20% from paypal and fees is taken into account.  

I use Gumtree (more popular than Craigslist in the UK) but find that it doesn't generate nearly as much interest.

[TheGoose]

Red - good
AmigaKit - good
Software Hut -good, long waits sometimes
Vesalia - good

I have used all these vendors and have never had a non delivery, I 'm in US.

Some have better automated systems for tracking and updates, AmigaKit shines in this regard. Normally, anything overseas gets automatically transfered to the USPS - a default; shipping systems are just not that sophisticated moving across boarders or continents is my conclusion.

Some of you have been really screwed by shipping situations sounds like, probably because these systems don't deliver to the underside of bridges.

:laughing: