/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>849570

I'm guessing you're referring to the Global Shipping Program.

Most of my items don't apply to it so I can't use it.

So yea I ship them myself straight to the buyer, only problem with that is if you plan on shipping to a 3rd world shithole, your package;

1. Gets stolen by their customs office
2. Gets stolen by the postman
3. Gets stolen by the buyer and he claims he didn't receive it (the countries 90% of the time won't update the tracking).

eBay discourages buyers (for the first time ever) in a good way, but then again it's only because they won't want to have to deal with all the scams they know the American seller isn't the one at fault.

Safest way to ship anything out of the country (Besides Canada) is to have it "registered/certified". That's an extra $13 on top of the total shipping costs...

this way, the thieves will at least HAVE TO scan the packages until it's delivered, if they don't, you're covered by USPS. Even though they're still going to remove the content inside.

P.s., Global shipping program tampers with your mail to make it lighter, so eBay can save more on shipping...

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>>711723

The U.S./Europe is the only proper place to ship.

If you come across Kazakhstan, Egypt, etc... don't waste your time...

Europe usually is the best for feedback, while U.S. might complain even though they knew it was coming out of country. Then again, if you're selling something, it's probably sold in the U.S. too, so I don't see why anyone would pay more to have it come from you.

It's like buying from China, it's cheap...but it takes forever. The customer support might not know English and then you'd have to worry about time zones of them getting back to your messages. This is why it's both easy/hard to sell in the U.S.

Selling perishable goods isn't also a smart idea...but hey, if you like melted chocolates that's you.