Hard to believe! A $55 razor from EUA, plus $33 shipping became (with "taxes", "fees", and "magic customs abracadabras" from the "global shipping program") $172!!! :nono: No way, lice!!! Too much blood for the itch. Items below US$100 bought by natural persons aren't even subject of taxes in Brazil.
With this money I can replace all fluids, oil/air/gas filters, hoses and brake pads for my car!
That is a rip off for sure. USA sellers appreciate the convenience of the global shipping program because, aside from not having to deal with customs forms at the post office, we send it to the USA repository in Kentucky IIRC, and we are off the hook. For us the package has been 'delivered' and if it gets lost after that it is ebay's problem. If I were the buyer I would never go for an item sold with that plan. Too many horror stories and fees &c.
Matheus, check and see if your postal service offers something similar. NZ post does, item gets sent to a US address and then forwarded to me. Much cheaper than ebay global.
Global ship and their brokerage fees are so steep to Canada that I rarely even look at blade sellers that use it. To me using Global ship says DOES NOT SHIP to CANADA. I just look elsewhere. There are rare exceptions but it is seriously rare. Not only does their shipping cost way more than US Post, it takes over a week longer to reach me. I say no to shipping rip offs, and that is not restricted to Global either...
Yeah. it is crazy to NZ too. I remember my first purchase from the classifieds here, $5 for 2 razors to the door.Quote:
Originally Posted by RezDog
Not uncommon now to see $50 US shipping, I'm out...
Never happy to hear that another person got stung by the Global Shipping System. Sorry you had to find out about it that way.
Bob
Its such a ripoff I don't use it when selling on ebay. I have had buyers back out of sales when I quote them shipping at my cost. Annoying but I understand and let them off. I shipped a razor to Canada, small flat rate box $25.00 that to me is crazy. We in the USA take shipping cost for granted.
A former company of mine was sending boats to Brazil's government to help clean some waterways back in 2008/2009 with Global Shipping POS. The boats were essentially locked up for ransom for about 4-5 years before they were released, the amount of fees they were attempting to levy could have put the company out of business since it also happen to be during the economic downturn. Three people at the company started taking classes for customs so that it would be avoided. I will never use them.
Shipping to most countries out of CONUS is expensive. Small flat rate international express USPS is the only way I have found to do it with tracking and it's in the neighborhood of $60.00 to most countries. Then there is the import duty based on the value you placed on the custom form. Global shipping cost less than we pay to ship tracked packages but they place the true cost of the item on the custom document so the duty cost together with the shipping cost comes out about the same. If you sell a razor through eBay and it gets lost without tracking you will have to refund the customer and you will not be refunded the money you sold the razor for. Sometimes I take a chance and send razors out of CONUS without tracking but it's a gamble. If you are a business you can just write the loss off on your taxes but for an individual it's just a painful loss. A few years ago I sent a $250.00 razor to Rome, Italy without tracking. The buyer said he never received it. That was an expensive lesson.
I checked it, but they don't offer this kind of service.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grazor
I also assume reliable tracked international shipping is not cheap, I am used to pay about US$30,00 most of the time. I donīt complain about that, because I know internet killed most of the volume demand of postal services throughout the world, thus making costly the shipment of small, light packets once shipped with common "paper" correspondence.
I'm pissed because I donīt like to pay useless intermediates for obviously included services as custom checking/sniffing/clearing. To offer a product with mandatory brokerage fees, when open-market alternatives are available is considered crime here. The person who sells you a car can not compel you to arrange the documentation towards an mandatory agent, if you can do it by yourself just by spending an afternoon (ok... maybe a week, bring your toothbrush) at the transit department.
I'm not trying to buy a metric ton of hydrazine, just a common mundane item as a pen.
World is getting costly, as people are getting dumber and lazy.
And WORSE! That beauty is still there tempting me!
This item has a reasonable shipping cost to Canada Vintage Straight Razor Frederick Reynolds Nice 5 8â w Case Faux Tortoise | eBay . It has been a while but I seem to recall getting a tracking number with these USPS services.Quote:
Originally Posted by karlej
I'll take care of duties owing, if any, myself when the item is delivered and skip paying for all the extra nonsense the brokers tag on to the overall cost. This is from a buyers POV.
Bob
There is a difference between taxes and duties and brokerage fees. Like USPS Global ship charges a substantial fee on top of the taxes and duties for filling out the customer declarations and prepaying any taxes or duties. The brokerage fee is a very high percentage. UPS is much higher at around 60%, Global Ships around 30%. So on a $99 dollar item there are no duty or taxes due, so it is shipping plus 33%. First class mail from the US to Canada does have tracking but no insurance. Postage with insurance from Canada to the US us silly at around $20 for a small package and around $70 to Australia or New Zealand.Quote:
Originally Posted by karlej
I agree with everyone here. GSP is a great rip off. Bought a vintage SR, GSP charges $15 for so called priority shipping. On top of it, charges another $5 for custom tax in Malaysia. Our customs don't tax for purchases below & 1000. When I wanted to clarify why they charging customs duties, they just avoided that topic and just gave me a bunch of standard copy&paste reply into how great they are as in they fill up paperwork etc. Rip off. Worse of all, the package arrived much 2 weeks later compared to the other purchase I had with standard USPS.. AVOID AT ALL COST
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You just need some prospective. GSP is great if you're sending an expensive item and you are the shipper. It's really not for typical items though.
Yes, that is true. Then why do sellers insist on using it for typical items when it just POs buyers off after they get stung?Quote:
Originally Posted by thebigspendur
Bob
Shipping international is insane. I remember when I lived in Minas (BH) shipping stuff to and from the states was a nightmare. And expensive. My parents sent me a package in a medium sized usps flat rate box and it was like 60 bucks. And someone at the correios got some of my gold fish... :/
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That beautiful nightmare won. I bought it, but it was sent to Lynn for honing and cleaning ($4,00 shipping). Cleaned, honed and shipped to me by Lynn it still will be cheaper than ebay's lowliving bloodsucker global shi**ing program.
Between that and the new final value fees charged to the seller (10%), eBay is just not the tool that it used to be. I'm out!
With all the moaning and complaining Eboy is still in business and isn't going anywhere.
Just think, if they shut down today would it have an impact on most folks?
You darn tootin it would.
I think we'll just migrate to another auction site if they shut down. They are, by far, the most popular initiative, but not the only.
I still think they are a good site, but they still shoot their own foot sometimes, as most dynamic enterprises.
Well, they won't shut down today because they are still popular and making a ton of money. It may come to pass that other similar selling platforms will slowly eat into their customer base. The demise of a selling platform does not normally happen over night.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebigspendur
Bob
Yes but folks have been complaining for years about Eboy and the situation has only gotten worse. It's like the Post Office. Folks complain but still use it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
Yes. But the USPS and their equivalents in other countries still deliver an awesome service.
Sure, they may not be next business day fast and sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with, but the prices are reasonable and if you use registered shipping, it will almost certainly get there.