[Milsurplus] ebay bullsh*t from certain folk

[Gary Mitchelson - N3JPU]

My take on this as a person who has sold a few Milsurplus radios to EU and
Canada. It is a bit more of a hassle as additional paperwork besides just
the airbill needs to be included. It's not to difficult as Fedex's website
has the tools to populate the forms for you if you don't know how to do
them. But it is a bit simplistic to say that it's as easy as sending
domestically.

I've never had a problem getting the equipment there once it's shipped. I
have had plenty of issues getting payment ahead of time. The last time was a
Canadian Postal Money order I received and after I deposited it my bank
called the following day and said it would take 3 weeks to clear. Another
was with receiving money via Western Union as it exceeded their daily value
from the country it was sent from.

Gary Mitchelson
N3JPU Montgomery Co. MD  FM19
http://www.mitchelson.org/ 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 15:49
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] ebay bullsh*t from certain folk


"Redistribution of the August J.Link archive by August J.Link. Stay tuned
for the next few years. Shipment to USA addresses only."

seems this traders words are not quite so, as he's just sold his latest two
items to a UK dealer, after he had emailed his refusale to take offers from
another UK buyer. 

Just what is it with this "will not post outside US" mentality?

Just offered to buy another guys item. When asked if he'd take bids and ship
to UK got a cock and bull story about him being too busy to mess with
foreign posting, even though it takes the same time to hand a package over
the counter for delivery to Timbukto as to Texas, and that there were
exportation laws re military gear. The kit in question was a Russian 1950's
bit of junk, hardly just stolen from your sacred Langley !  When this was
pointed out his second line of excuse was that the package was already at
the UPS depot..... even though the bidding was still taking place. 

Inward looking or what !

QM.