|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
08-05-2007, 09:24 PM | #1 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: In the saddle...
Posts: 473
| Foreign buyers on eBay...
Nothing again foreign folks in general, but sometimes they can be a royal PITA when it comes to them bidding on and winning eBay auctions. I have listed in my auctions places that I will and will NOT ship to, yet people still bid. I had Borat's cousin from Turkey buy a pair of X-Mods from me. I was just trying to get rid of them (I would have thrown them out, but decided to list them), they sold for $54, and then the fink complains that his shipping cost too much (at $46 actual) when I charged him $35. A guy from Germany bought my Revo, shipped with tracking for close to $90 (a huge heavy box) but USPS tracking is apparently only good until it leaves the states. Now he's been 3 weeks without the truck and is asking me for where it is... 5 minutes ago, I have a guy win from Thailand on a vintage Kyosho Rampage Pro, NIB. Shipping is $70 w/o insurance. I can't wait to hear about this one. Anyone have this kind of luck or is it just me? Rant over. |
Sponsored Links | |
08-05-2007, 09:29 PM | #2 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Del mar
Posts: 411
|
You need to put WILL NOT SHIP OVERSEAS in huge as$ banners ALL over the page, it usually detures them. Also translate it into multiple languages.LOL
|
08-05-2007, 09:30 PM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: dallas, Oregon
Posts: 200
|
if you have that you wont ship it outside the us, wait till they send payment, send it back to them and second chance the next highest bidder, or you can see where their from before it ends and cancel their bids..
|
08-05-2007, 09:33 PM | #4 | |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: In the saddle...
Posts: 473
| Quote:
The most frustrating part is that it is usually a snipe. | |
08-05-2007, 09:36 PM | #5 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement
Posts: 929
| |
08-05-2007, 11:33 PM | #6 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bozeman
Posts: 228
| x2 I have had the same problems....it is 9 times out of 10 someone from the UK that always snipes my stuff
|
08-06-2007, 12:30 AM | #7 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: LBC
Posts: 370
|
You should just put on your auction that the fee for shipping and handling outside the US is $200. What pisses me off about shipping stuff outside the US is filling out the retarded paperwork at the post office. I just don't bother selling crap outside the US. No more than I sell on Ebay, it's not worth my trouble. |
08-06-2007, 05:43 AM | #8 | |
Landy mad Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Newcastle, England, UK
Posts: 425
| Quote:
I would never bid on stuff abroad, unless they ship overseas. I have asked a few sellers before and quite a few normally just decline. Not a problem, just keep looking elsewhere. | |
08-06-2007, 06:21 AM | #9 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: In the saddle...
Posts: 473
|
Wallaz, the problem for me is not that it is a foreigner, it is that my auctions are usually sniped at the last minute by someone who has not asked me for an international shipping price, and often lives in some obscure part of the world where shipping is unreasonable or unsafe (Germany being an exception in this case). Thank you from the States for being a bidder who checks before bidding and doesn't end up complaining to the seller about shipping or refusing to pay it for being too high. |
08-06-2007, 06:37 AM | #10 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Deer Park
Posts: 151
|
The fact that you post you wont ship out.....but if your international email me first. TRY sticking to your guns on the post.... NO shipping outside the US PERIOD. Instead of NO then mabye |
08-06-2007, 06:47 AM | #11 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Here
Posts: 2,320
|
shipping to germany usually takes about 30 days at the most.
|
08-06-2007, 12:00 PM | #12 | |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: LBC
Posts: 370
| Quote:
The post office thing is just the icing on the cake. For me, it's always some genius in Canada that bids on my "no international buyers" auction. I love it when people knowingly and willingly ignore my auction guidlines. Most of the time I try to research the bidders to see where they live, if they are outside the US I cancel their bids. Nothing personal against "Johnny" I just hate tards who can't read or think they don't have to follow my simple guidlines. | |
08-06-2007, 12:21 PM | #13 |
RCC Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: Aroostook county
Posts: 1,271
|
one guy bought some axles from me from paris when I clearly stated I didn't want to ship outside the U.S., so I just sent the money back and hes like WTF But I wouldnt mind dealing with Leorosa! he's awesome to deal with |
08-06-2007, 12:30 PM | #14 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
Posts: 12,563
| |
08-06-2007, 12:34 PM | #15 |
RCC Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: Aroostook county
Posts: 1,271
| |
08-06-2007, 12:40 PM | #16 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
Posts: 12,563
| |
08-06-2007, 04:27 PM | #17 | |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: the great brown north=(WI)
Posts: 352
| Quote:
selling international sucks. have had some bad expierence selling industrial equipment and then they retract there payment. no way to protect against that, besides with other hassles why bother. the only way me and my dad will sell over seas is with a western union transfer | |
08-07-2007, 01:05 AM | #18 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: LBC
Posts: 370
| Was it for some of these axles you were going to make? http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/sho...=13446&page=10 Last edited by shutupanddrive; 08-07-2007 at 11:18 AM. |
08-07-2007, 06:22 AM | #19 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Martinsburg WV
Posts: 2,781
|
I have to ship to Canada several times a week - and it is a royal pain in the butt. I'm lobbying to raise prices on our products going to Canada just due to having to put out 4 times the effort to ship there. Customs, duty fees, blah blah. Then there's the part about guys in Canada needing 4 times the customer support for some strange reason. Electricians up there (Ontario specifically) just complicate things 10 fold. The term "certified electrician" just no longer impresses me. It means nothing anymore. I'm just a pool tech. if you get nit-picky about it, yet I run circles around 3/4's of these guys. I always state in my few auctions "no shipping outside the continental U.S." I have'nt had any problems yet. But I very rarely sell on Ebay... |
| |