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Paypal negative balance - can they take it? number 2
Bernd:
--- Quote from: Darren on December 23, 2009, 06:07:16 AM ---If you want to compare international delivery costs try www.interparcel.co.uk
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Darren,
We both know about that don't we? ::)
Bernd
Darren:
Sure do Bernd,
For the benifit of others, Bernd had a gift for me, but to send it here to the UK would have cost almost as much as the items value.
We compared the cost to sending it from here which turned out to be 1/4 of the cost coming from the US with the same carrier !!!
I couldn't organise it from here either as the cost again shot up.
No wonder your production industry is on its knees, ours in the exporting section seems to be climbing in this poor economy.
tel:
Only as much as the items value - I recently looked at a small item on ebay from the US, where the quoted postage was $87 for a $13 item. I could get (and did) the same item posted from the UK for under $8
tel:
--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on December 22, 2009, 11:42:04 PM ---
--- Quote from: tel on December 22, 2009, 06:55:04 AM ---I have had nothing but positive dealings on ebay, the only beef I have is the outrageous postal charges that American sellers want for their goods, the rest of the world can post at quite reasonable rates, why not the USA?
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Tel... It isn't the sellers. It is the shipping services we have. The are overpriced to ship to other countries. Check the usps or ups website and see.
Eric
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Yeah Eric, I understand that, but these 'services' are costing your sellers dearly in lost sales. Also, many sellers, and it seems to be more prevalent in US sellers, opt to charge their own 'little' insurance premium, so there is fault there as well - the following is just a quick example I cam up with in less than 2 mins looking on ebay
Darren:
I don't know about the AUS but we have another problem .... import duty with the PO adding their tag of £8.50 or so to collect it.
We get fleeced all the way if buying from another country.
That's how come they can hold our retail prices so high, make it prohibitive to import anything.
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