[Milsurplus] OT:ebays global shipping program warning

[George Babits]

By "confiscated" I meant that they (eBay global shipping)  "bought" the 
equipment.  The buyer got a full refund, and I (the seller) kept what the 
buyer had paid me.  I guess it is all part of how BigBrother is removing all 
this dangerious war material from circulation.  There wasn't any route of 
appeal that I could use the recover either piece of gear.

73,
George
W7HDL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <antqradio at sbcglobal.net>
To: "George Babits" <gbabits at custertel.net>
Cc: "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] OT:ebays global shipping program warning


By confiscated you mean that neither the buyer nor the seller ever saw the 
ART-13 speech amplifier again? Did eBay refund the purchase price or did the 
seller forfit?
I have always used the "ship it yourself" option and have never had a 
problem. Ounce a buyer from Brazil had to wait quite a long time for 
shipping since he wanted the least expensive shipping method but the radio 
did finally arrive. An added benefit is that Customs forms are automatically 
filled out if you pay for shipping through eBay.
I usually add a few ounces to the shipping weight, it seems that some of the 
Post Office scales are a bit off at times. This only happened once and after 
I pointed that out, the problem was corrected.Jim

      From: George Babits <gbabits at custertel.net>
 To: jedifox <jedifox at optusnet.com.au>
Cc: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
 Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 8:41 AM
 Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] OT:ebays global shipping program warning

After having an ART-13 speech amplifier and the receiver section of a WS-52
confiscated by the Global shipping program, I did a little looking at the
program. It is a "convienent" way to ship things. If you watch how you
post things you can usually avoid their traps. First clue is when you list,
you may get a warning that the particular item cannot be shipped through
global shipping. This seems to occur when you list in certain categories.
When you get that sort of warning, just go back and change the category. The
second caution is to never have the word "military" in the heading for your
listing. Also, I think there may be some size and weight restrictions in
that system. I'm not a big time eBay seller, or fan either for that matter,
but if you want to sell things, it is by far the largest audience.

George
W7HDL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jedifox" <jedifox at optusnet.com.au>
To: "Milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 12:12 AM
Subject: [Milsurplus] OT:ebays global shipping program warning


> hi all,
> i bought though ebay a very good example of a russian receiver
> R311 built in 1964, 1 to 15 mhz from american milspec ,the global shipping
> program decided that it was a restricted export please alert any people
> that you know as sellers on ebay to 'opt out' of using the ebay global
> shipping program with any sort of russian radio or any old military radio
> listing . as it may be deemed a restricted export and disappear. just
> thought all of you would like the warning.
>
> highest regards
> leigh
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