I've never had any trouble purchasing from foreign merchants on Ebay, as long as they are doing business using PayPal. I've gotten cameras from Russia, lots of stuff from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and a few other odds and ends.
My real problem isn't dealing the folks in foreign countries, it's all the folks only willing to ship to CONUS as I live in Hawaii. I've checked on shipping prices and sometimes it's actually more expensive to ship from the west coast to the east coast than it is to ship to Hawaii - and, at least for small items, priority mail one-price boxes are the same everyone in the US, CONUS or otherwise. I get it with big items but small stuff....sigh. I've often thought of selling a Brooks saddle I don't need (B-68) but putting non-CONUS only. :-) Aloha, Bob On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jay in Tel Aviv <jayin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been fairly active on this list since I got my Sam last summer. > I have participated in discussions, bought and sold a few things > (including my Sam, thanks Forrest) and generally tried to be helpful > when I have something to add. I find the people here generally quite > knowledgable and friendly. It is a good groupvand I'm happy to be part > of it. > > Once in a while, though, I have experienced something which to be > seems very strange and a bit insulting. A few times people have > refused to complete a transaction with me when they find out I live > overseas. Shipping costs have not been the issue, it seems more loke a > lack of willingness to trust a random foriegner on the internet. > > I just lost a sale on another group in circumstances like those. The > buyer got the answeres he was looking for to his questions and then > balked when he saw thay my email wasn't from the US. > > I feel like I'm missing something here. > > Jay > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Robert Harrison Honolulu, HI rfharri...@gmail.com statrix.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
