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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 5480828, member: 82549"]I sell on US eBay. I use eBay's foreign shipping service for any overseas sales. They calculate the shipping cost plus all import duties and taxes and charge the buyer. They make a small profit on this, but it's not the huge price-gouging scam that some potential buyers accuse eBay (or, often, me) of perpetrating. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it's very expensive, and I feel sorry for someone who buys a $40 coin from me and then has to pay an extra $25 for shipping and fees. But all this information is included in the listing, everything is above board, and apparently the purchaser thinks the coin is worth it or they wouldn't have bought it, so more power to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>From my perspective, it rids me of all the overseas buyers who insist I list the value of the coin as $5 on customs forms so that they don't have to pay as much in duties and taxes. So what I lose in sales I also lose in headaches. I don't love it, but I can live with it. I refuse to perjure myself to save someone $10.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 5480828, member: 82549"]I sell on US eBay. I use eBay's foreign shipping service for any overseas sales. They calculate the shipping cost plus all import duties and taxes and charge the buyer. They make a small profit on this, but it's not the huge price-gouging scam that some potential buyers accuse eBay (or, often, me) of perpetrating. Yes, it's very expensive, and I feel sorry for someone who buys a $40 coin from me and then has to pay an extra $25 for shipping and fees. But all this information is included in the listing, everything is above board, and apparently the purchaser thinks the coin is worth it or they wouldn't have bought it, so more power to them. From my perspective, it rids me of all the overseas buyers who insist I list the value of the coin as $5 on customs forms so that they don't have to pay as much in duties and taxes. So what I lose in sales I also lose in headaches. I don't love it, but I can live with it. I refuse to perjure myself to save someone $10.[/QUOTE]
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