Shipping Coins form the United States to Europe

What shipping method have you decided to use?

 

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Usually with coins I use registered mail. Guess many others (who are not professional dealers; those will usually have extra insurance) do that too, and most of the time it works out OK. The good thing is, you have a receipt that you can present to the intended recipient. The bad thing is, if anything gets lost, it is basically lost. Don't tell the shipping company that you had coins in that letter or package ...

Then there are specialized services such as DWL, Opexx, etc. Somewhat expensive, and I have no idea which company transports valuables from the US to DK, sorry.

Christian

 

Because of the high sale price of the coin I decided to go with Global Express Guaranteed with full insurance. Hopefully, all ends up fine. Thanks again to everyone for their input.

 

Ship using USPS International Priority with Conformation and insurance. It'll cost a bit for the buyer but it's one way to stay safe with ebays new buyer protection programs. Do not accept returns either if shipping internationally. That way you don't have to worry about it getting lost on the way back.

 

Your primary interest is not getting ripped off. Insurance does not protect you from a Paypal chargeback. Examine the Paypal Seller Protection Policy and ship in accordance with that. Usually that means a tracked method.

 

I have alot of experience with this and lately it has been very negative. I would suggest if selling on ebay from the usa not even shipping to Europe espescially Germany. I have had major delays lately to Germany and what happens is I send a coin for a cheap first class rate it does not arrive in say three weeks the buyer files a claim paypal puts a hold on my account and I have no recourse . Next the buyer receives the coin and everyone is happy right? No, Paypal releases the hold on the funds so that is fine but ebay sees it as a case has been opened and so my seller status is downgraded even know the coin was received and everything is fine.So the opened cases cost me the 20% discount on my final fee discounts and starting in May I think , ebay will be putting a delay on releasing the funds for an item if seller status is below standards,even if you have 100% feedback and again even if everyone received the coins and everything is fine, and forget about trying to get this resolved with ebay I have tried so many times and they say the will take care of it and never do. This is just a caution to new sellers because this will eventually happen to you . It is a shame because some of my best customers were in Germany and I have never lost a package there just delayed . International express is not an option because it is stated that coins , currency , gold , platinum and silver are prohibited. Registered mail is not an option because they can only track it until it leaves the country and the only way to do anything is open an investigation which takes up to 60 days and by then ebay/paypal has long given the money back to the buyer. The only option by usps I can see is global express guarenteed, (I dont think they have the restrictions on gold/silver ect. as far as I can tell) and I think it can be tracked but it is very expensive and if you are selling say a $80 coin is the customer really wanting to pay $45.00 shipping? I guess that is their choice and as far as I can tell they will not insure precious metals or jewelry. I think the best option unfortunatly is just not to ship overseas. Sorry for the rant but I hope it was helpful and keeps someone from the hassles and problems associated with it.

 

I don't sell on the bay but have you looked into Fed Ex or UPS?

 

I don't "do" eBay either, but yes, if anybody has made such bad experiences with shipping coins to Germany, it makes sense to simply not do that any more. Other people's experiences have apparently been different though. And no, I don't think that UPS could be an option. At least in DE, coins are among the items they will not ship.

Christian

 

The coin did make it to Denmark and through customs. A lot of stress but much relief when I was notified by the buyer. Thanks to everyone for their advice, it really did help me.

Larry

 

First off, mark the export sticker as a collectable, forget the word COIN. I personally don’t ship to certain countries, NEVER…. I don’t think this is the place to name which counties, but check other ebayers approved country list for help. Many countries are very dependable, but some are not worth the risk. Shipping a $700 item overseas, gasp… Best be careful, and do your homework. How do I know, I learned the hard way. I could get into trouble real fast with this subject.