International Shipping loophole closed on Paypal FYI
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Quick heads up for anyone who ships to Canada.
For the first time PayPal won't allow me to select first class international mail (large envelope) to ship cards to Canada. Used to be $3.50 postage to send a graded card in a padded envelope. It now requires you to only choose the international mail option if you select documents on the Customs form. The new cost is $9.50 as a package. That will definetly cut down on the number of low dollar graded cards I sell to Canada. Now I have to go edit a few eBay listings.
Kevin
Kevin
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Can't you use the Global Shipping Program on eBay?
As a collector in Canada, this sucks. I'm already forced to send most of my purchases to Niagara Falls, NY, drive 1.5 hours across the border each way to get them and hope they let me back over without paying 13% sales tax to come back into Canada. I end up doing this every 6 weeks or so....Not to mention paying $80/yr and $1.50 each package to hold them. Being a baseball collector, buying in Canada is tough but the hunt can be fun too.
When I sell on eBay, I have to plan it for a pick up trip so I can ship from Niagara Falls, NY as shipping to the US used to be reasonable 15 years ago but is ridiculous now.
You can just choose "documents" for your cards.
The bigger problem has been the new tracking numbers, which stop at the border.
Casey,
I tried that and it still wouldn’t let me if I put a different description in. I’d prefer not to push the grey area to far.
For low value cards this was a nice option. Even without tracking.
Kevin
Kevin