What's the problem with international shipping?

[Ruler_Mark]

Also NO-1 has stated anything on the languages barrier.

I had to cancel a sale to an international due to the fact the person doesnt understand the difference between paypal verified and confirmed address.

[knightnight4u]

Well my main beef is the people that are LAZY and the ones that pad their pocket by overcharging on shipping.

Ex #1: I offer trader 'X' some cash for an item. I tell them that I am in Canada and that my offer includes shipping. They either say yes, or no. No biggie. The ones that bother me are the ones that don't bother to check to see what the actual shipping costs are and whine because they ended up paying more then expected for shipping. Don't whine to me cause if you would have checked it out yourself, we could have avoided the whole mess to begin with.

Ex#2: I purchased an complete autococker valve with IVG, spring, and some other small stuff. The jerk charges me $15.00 for shipping. Which I paid because I didn't know any better. I get the package and I can clearly see on the package that he paid $1.75 for shipping and MAYBE $.50 for the padded envelope. His excuse for charging so much shipping was that I bought the parts for dirt cheap. (This was on E-Bay). My thoughts are, he shoulda put a reserve on em if he wanted 'X' amount of dollars for the stuff and not started at a $1.00


I make offers which include shipping all the time. If something is worth 'X' dollars to me shipped thats what I'm willing to pay. Its up to the buyers to say yes or no. Its also up to me if the package gets here and there are customs fees due.


Don't tell me that shipping is going to run $40 minimum as I can clearly see on the USPS site that international flat rate boxes start at $23.00

I can agree with most of what you are saying, however, if you buy it on ebay the shipping is there for you to see, if it is too high then dont buy it. If he tries to jack it up for international dont buy it. It is usually costomary to work that out before bidding anyway. I usually try to charge within a few bucks of acual shipping, but there are people who try to crank it up to insure their profit and recover ebay fees. As for the whole international thing, I will most ly ship anywhere, but it depends on the item and where to. There are some counties that make it difficult to ship and recieve paintball and especially airsoft guns. The buyers dont help when so many of them want you to lie about what it is. Trust me, good friend got caught shipping something that isnt what he said it was and now they search every box he ships out internationaly.

[Dr Greenthumb]

Trust me, good friend got caught shipping something that isnt what he said it was and now they search every box he ships out internationaly.

That seems normal as it appears as an illegal importation (like if you send drugs or fireguns)
but most country are paintball allowed...

I can guarantee you that 99% of the persons in charge with customs can't make a difference between a 50$ marker and another one that cost 1000$ (except if they are paintballer too but in this case, they also shop internationally so.... )

[Lohman446]

Thats one of the major issues I have with international shipping

"Mark it as a gift"

"Mark it as only costing XXX"

There is an obvious money trail and record of what that item sold for. There is not a chance I am risking fraud charges on an international shipment just to make the buyer pay less taxes. Your tax laws suck, you live in a democratic (mostly) society, live with it or change it, but I am not participating in fraud, especially when it is so easily verified :) .

[Wicked_Silence]

I can agree with most of what you are saying, however, if you buy it on ebay the shipping is there for you to see, if it is too high then dont buy it. If he tries to jack it up for international dont buy it. It is usually costomary to work that out before bidding anyway. I usually try to charge within a few bucks of acual shipping, but there are people who try to crank it up to insure their profit and recover ebay fees. As for the whole international thing, I will most ly ship anywhere, but it depends on the item and where to. There are some counties that make it difficult to ship and recieve paintball and especially airsoft guns. The buyers dont help when so many of them want you to lie about what it is. Trust me, good friend got caught shipping something that isnt what he said it was and now they search every box he ships out internationaly.

Yeah, I did that awhile ago, before I really got into knowing what something was going to cost to ship. These days I don't know if I should laugh or cry when I hear some of these shipping 'quotes'.

As for lying on the customs forum. I ask that someone mark it as a gift to speed up things coming across the border, you can put the value that I paid for it and not what its 'actually' worth, and I ask that most people mark the package as used paintball parts. Most of the time that fits the bill anyway, and even if its a complete marker, just remove the frame from the body and now, its parts.