Dear Ambassador Matt,
A potential buyer in Canada told me that it will cost her $68 for me to ship a 7 pound package. In the recent past I have been able to sell items to international customers and then pay to ship the package to Kentucky, then eBay Global Shipping deals with the package after that.It only costs $8 to ship a 7 pound package to Kentucky. Do you know if anything changed recently regarding eBay Global shipping?
thanks so much,
Greg
I’m confused – she wants to buy 7lbs of product from you, and she’s the one telling you what it’ll cost to ship?
I don’t usually sell on eBay, so I can’t speak to that from a position of knowledge. Let me Google that for you, though. Google is your Friend!
What I can tell you about shipping is this: check USPS.com “Calculate a Price”. When I ship internationally, it’s usually a $50 Bilbo Baggins in Blue Coat (Target Hobbit DVD Exclusive), and it weighs ~ 1oz., so I use First Class Mail International / First-Class Package International Service, and it costs $6.55. FCMI is only good up to 13oz, though, so your 7lb monstrosity has to go Priority Mail International, which is more expensive. That said, I’m seeing $43.55 ($38.57 if you buy postage online), which is still way cheaper than what she said. I think she’s either overestimating or using Canadian shipping companies with Socialism Tax.
Dear Matt,
I am definitely interested in the answer to Greg’s question, I am not familiar with eBay Global Shipping.
I had a similar (although less extreme) situation just a month ago – I had bought some used duplos cheap on BrickLink (a lot of them were at Greenberg even though you couldn’t see them) and I found a whole mess of them super cheap, but they were in Canadia eh, and according to the seller it would’ve cost $30 to mail a $25 order (I added on other parts, of course, duh), mostly cause of the duplos. Fortunately they let me cancel the order, but if there’s a way to ship it cheaper, I would place that order again.
Crapfully crap,
Ben
Thanks for the e-mail, Crap-for-crap! I’ve never used eCrap Global Crapping either, but I bet it’s pretty crappy! If I were you, I’d stop ordering crap from Crapada and buy good old American-made crap. And if you are going to order crap from other countries, always ask for a shipping quote before you place the order. And if you’re going to request insurance on the shipment, DEFINITELY mention that when you ask for the shipping quote – some guy in Korea bailed on a Bricklink order a few months ago because adding insurance means switching to Priority Mail Int’l which is at least $15 more than FCMI, as mentioned above.
Anyway, I gotta go; I promised The Cheat we’d mess with Homestar at his Bar Mitzvah.
Craptastically,
Ambassador Strong Matt