[SEL] Ebay shipping costs

[Peter Lowe]

There is a way to stop the auto Global Shipping Program.
(My eBay summary page)
account > site preferences > shipping preferences > Offer the Global Shipping Program > edit > no

This then frees up the postage section to allow First Class International Post.
Why would you guys want to get slugged more by a darn middle man, Pitney Bowes. 
I wanted an item recently from the USA, the cost of the item was $20, they wanted $87 postage via Priority International, it would have gone into a flat post bag. Something is seriously wrong.
I guess I will be taking up the offer of friends here to purchase a few items on the odd occasion. 
Peter, Oz







As an active USA seller I can say it's overly complicated and intimidating to ship to a foreign address, thanks to some combination of our own postal system and international customs requirements.  But if you stick with it for a bit it becomes manageable.  

I, too, saw these eBay offers to manage my international shipments and hadn't checked the offer out yet.  Sounds like it's not a good deal for anybody but eBay.  But they've got a ready market of folks out there who don't want the hassle of international shipping, presumably folks who without the eBay service wouldn't offer their goods for international sale.

When I first started eBay selling the USPS international rates were reasonable and I had a fair percentage of international sales.  About 5 years ago USPS restructured their rates and the international ones took a big increase.  That pretty much killed my international sales.  We are concerned about our balance of trade and then make it impossible for small exporters to do business...typical government logic.

Edd has the right answer.  I'll work with guys like you anytime to get around the system.  Even when I do get burned occasionally with a crooked seller or buyer.

Bill Brueck
Pine Island, MN, USA

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Edd Payne
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEL] Ebay shipping costs

The only way I have got around it is to get the seller to send me his email address and then pay direct to there paypal account after they tell you a total with a new postal rate but ebay stops them from sending you an invoice.Not real safe but has worked for me.I have had to use the global shipping many times now and having a po box they wont accept it and have to give a street address and the parcel comes by courier not by post.
EDD PAYNE
PO Box 364 Gulgong N.S.W
Australia
2852
Phone:0263742387
edsengns at optusnet.com.au
edsengns
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From: "Peter Lowe" <plowe at exemail.com.au>
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> Hi Eddy
> They are just introducing a middle so they can skim from the top, the 
> parcel still arrives via USPS, gives you the shits. There is a way the 
> sellers can opt out, but it is all too hard for them.
> Peter
>
> http://pages.ebay.com/shipping/globalshipping/buyer-tnc.html#paymentsp
> lit Have a look here mate.This is what they call global shipping and 
> if it is offered in the sellers description you are trapped by ebay to 
> use this.
> EDD PAYNE
> PO Box 364 Gulgong N.S.W
> Australia
> 2852
> Phone:0263742387
> edsengns at optusnet.com.au
> edsengns
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> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 10:44 PM
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>
>
>> Can anyone State side tell me why eBay is pushing sellers to post 
>> internationally via their Kentucky distribution center??
>> I have had three sellers on radios I want to buy forcing me to go 
>> “Priority International Post” via their Kentucky Center, this is 
>> sometimes thre to four times to price of “First Class International 
>> Post” and takes the same time to get to Australia.
>> Is eBay is cahoots with USPS ??? $$$$$ What is happening.
>> The seller will not just pack and send to direct to me, someone is 
>> jerking their chain.
>> Peter
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