2 Jul
2024
2 Jul
'24
9:20 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 2:02 PM Yeechang Lee via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
* By default, eBay US listings since last year have eBay International
Shipping (eIS) enabled. Any international sale goes to a US eBay depot,
which forwards the item to the customer, and handles customs documentation.
*All returns are handled by eBay and not paid by the seller.* While some
categories are excluded from eIS, there is absolutely positively no reason
for US sellers to not sell abroad the majority of categories with it.
I have always shipped to anywhere in the world that eBay allows and rarely
ever had a problem with it. Everything was made substantially easier (and
cheaper) with eBay International Standard Delivery, and now with eIS. The
only real problem I ever encountered was a Chinese address that I just
could not get eBay to recognize (after a failed attempt where the package
was picked up by UPS and then returned the next day because they couldn't
read the address on the all-Chinese label...I still don't understand why
they didn't just scan it and figure out where it's going that way) but the
buyer provided a Hong Kong address instead and that fixed things.
The only added step for selling to a foreign buyer on eBay was filling a
couple boxes with information for the customs form, which pretty much
already had the HS code filled out. You just needed to fill in the actual
weight of the product (vs. the product+packaging). Very simple.
Sellam