[R-390] Bad Overseas EBay Experience

[Tom Norris]

On Mar 26, 2006, at 3:33 AM, ampop at comcast.net wrote:
>
> Dealing on Ebay is an awful lot like Baseball.  You Win some, You Lose
> Some and some are Rained Out.  Some probably should have never been
> scheduled.   If you don't like the Game, Don't Play.

In that manner, it's not much different than hamfests.  I think I've  
had better luck on Ebay than I've had at some hamfests in the past.

As far as selling to various countries, my list is similar to Mier's  
- I've sold to the UK, Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland,  
Australia and Japan.  All the buyers were honest and a pleasure to  
deal with, and I'd deal with them again.  I've bought a few items  
from Germany, UK and Japan, but the main thing I see on listings from  
most EU countries are they seem to be unwilling to sell outside the  
EU or even outside their country, even on small non-milsurplus items  
such as car parts.  Maybe it's just been good luck, but I've not had  
a problem with any foreign transaction.  Any language problems I had  
were usually helped with online translators, a Berlitz or someone  
locally that spoke the language.  The only problem transactions were  
with folks in the US.  YMMV, of course.

One thing to be sure of, if you're shipping a large item such as an  
R-390 is to be sure that it's packed to survive at least a 3 foot  
drop or so.  My biggest obstacle seems to have been packing items to  
meet the maximum size and weight limits for a certain parcel class so  
the poor buyer doesn't have to mortage his dogs and cats to pay for  
the next level of postage.

73

Tom