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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4641042, member: 10461"]I have received a few shipments from Germany (to me here in the USA) in the last month or so that came via regular post, without the need to pay for expensive private-carrier shipping. They took a good while to arrive, but arrive they eventually did.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect it is more a policy of your particular seller than across the board, unless there have been changes I am unaware of. I shop regularly on MA-Shops and buy from German (Dutch, etc) dealers and have never been asked to pay such an exorbitant amount. I have also recently done business with auction firms in Spain and Switzerland and did not pay any unusual shipping fee. There was a wait, sure, but it wasn't awful. But if they are dealing with increased expenses, I suppose different dealers might handle it differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>One seller in Sweden that I did business with (long before all this COVID stuff) charged $20-something for shipping, which seemed a tad high to me at the time. But to my surprise, it came via FedEx, and I got the coin within about <i>36 hours</i>- from Sweden to Georgia! So that was worth it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4641042, member: 10461"]I have received a few shipments from Germany (to me here in the USA) in the last month or so that came via regular post, without the need to pay for expensive private-carrier shipping. They took a good while to arrive, but arrive they eventually did. I suspect it is more a policy of your particular seller than across the board, unless there have been changes I am unaware of. I shop regularly on MA-Shops and buy from German (Dutch, etc) dealers and have never been asked to pay such an exorbitant amount. I have also recently done business with auction firms in Spain and Switzerland and did not pay any unusual shipping fee. There was a wait, sure, but it wasn't awful. But if they are dealing with increased expenses, I suppose different dealers might handle it differently. One seller in Sweden that I did business with (long before all this COVID stuff) charged $20-something for shipping, which seemed a tad high to me at the time. But to my surprise, it came via FedEx, and I got the coin within about [I]36 hours[/I]- from Sweden to Georgia! So that was worth it.[/QUOTE]
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