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jt88
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I sold a coin yesterday to a international buyer when I try to print a shipping label eBay asked me yo creat a Ups account and print there. I don’t want to use Ups. I want to use usps but I can’t find the option to do that. Then I try PayPal but PayPal kept saying my street address is wrong so I end up using usps site to print a label. Anyone can print a international label recently? It must be changed recently
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That is odd about forcing you to use UPS.
On the few sales I do, I go old school - a pen.
First thing, stop shipping to international buyers. Use ebay's program where you ship it to somewhere in the states and then they do the rest. Save yourself a lot of grief.
Well, that will make me lose many business. That's not an option at all.
I was looking at an item in Scotland and he was using the eBay service - it made the shipping cost many times more than what it would have cost him to mail it himself, so needless to say I did not buy the item.
you could not do it with PAYPAL multi-order shipping?
No. PayPal complaint about the street address
I think a call to paypal or ebay is in order.
Collector, occasional seller
The cost is extravagant for inexpensive items ($35 and up) which discourages international buyers. I would only use eBay Global shipping for expensive or large objects that are going to go Priority or Express anyway and/or which need insurance.
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I printed USPS international labels on Thursday and friday night without difficulty. What country are you shipping to? There are some countries that eBay won't let you print online but USPS will. I'm not sure why.
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Yep. Only way that I ship international. BTW Paypal whack you for an extra percentage on overseas transactions.
Every international buyer that's allowed to bid is a bid increment for your item. They don't need to win it for you to profit from them.
330,000,000 Americans work fine on US coins. If I dealt in foreign, that would be another story.
Last Intl sale was about three years ago to Australian through Ebay's clearing system. Got tied up in Kentucky for two weeks and finally made it down under after 4 more days.
After receiving the coin the guy told me that my shipping/handling time on the listing was misleading.
I don't need some guy to insult me from 10,000 miles away. I can go to the sports forum for that!
LOL. I had a guy in Pennsylvania yell at me for a package delay, so don't underestimate the impatience or rudeness of the home folks.
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By the way, for what it's worth, close to half of my low grade Morgan and Peace $s sell overseas, for whatever reason. So, it has been helpful extending behind the 330,000 old American curmudgeons who dabble in coins.
I also get frequent low-ball sub-wholesale offers on silver from U.S. customers all the time. HATE THEM! Immediate block if you make me a low-ball offer on bullion. I KNOW HOW TO MELT IT MYSELF RIGHT HERE! I don't need to pay eBay, PayPal and USPS to send it to you to melt and try to profit from my assumed ignorance.
Phew...that felt good!
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Excellent rant, JM.
On behalf of the international buyers out there, we appreciate those of you willing to ship overseas at a reasonable price. I generally consider up to $10 to be reasonable (depending on the cost and value of the coin, of course). There aren't any local coin shops selling BHLCs around here...
Smitten with DBLCs.