eBay global shipping program?
Ebay Global Shipping Program necessary or not?
Gsp sucks cost the buyer more money and they poorly repack your items at their GSP center why??? I guess to check for contraband make sure your not using them to ship drugs idk.......
Anyways I would just stay away from international sales all together unless your a big big seller and can make up the potential shipping losses on sale volume it's not worth it.
Now I now what your thinking how do others do it then??? Well Chinese sellers for example have Their shipping is heavily subsided by their and even our own government. So what cost you 23$ to ship probably cost them $2 or less.
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I have someone who wants to buy one of my ebay items. His Location is Norway and I'm in the US State of CA. Shipping cost is ridicules $23 for 10 oz item. is Global Shipping Program necessary or not?
Gsp sucks cost the buyer more money and they poorly repack your items at their GSP center why??? I guess to check for contraband make sure your not using them to ship drugs idk.......
Anyways I would just stay away from international sales all together unless your a big big seller and can make up the potential shipping losses on sale volume it's not worth it.
Now I now what your thinking how do others do it then??? Well Chinese sellers for example have Their shipping is heavily subsided by their and even our own government. So what cost you 23$ to ship probably cost them $2 or less.
I used it at first, but have since switched to just regular USPS First Class International.
It does cost buyers more. And sometimes they are forced to pay duties even when the item is less expensive than the threshold for paying duties. The only items that went missing in action are those I used the GSP to ship, and they did NOT make it right by the customer, so I had to do it myself, and they did not send the item back to me.
I've read others who have said that there can be issues with the delivery service they use on the other end, that it is more likely to result in a package not being received ... don't remember the details of that, but you might Google and see what you can find by way of reviews. That's what I did when I was having second thoughts about using GSP.
Note, you do not see what the customer actually has to pay GSP.
Below 8 oz, USPS would be around $12 to $14 to Europe. Up to 2 pounds it would be around $22 to $24.
I knew that eBay International Shipping was a joke, but I never realized how horrible the system actually is. I'm not a big eBay user, and usually stick to Canadian listings (with positive results), but there was a really HTF item available from the US for $75 (+$30 shipping) that I decided to take the risk. Big mistake.
Unfortunately, my package (with a delivery range to me of July 23 to Aug 2) has been "in transit" for about 3 weeks to the eBay International Shipping depot in CAROL STREAM IL, and each day I look for an update the status is always "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late". So I decided to contact some friends and hangers-on 'in the know" at eBay Canada, and from what I can divine, it seems like eBay is paying a cut-rate fee to the USPS and in turn is getting cut-rate service from the USPS.
What looks to be happening is that there is a HUGE shipping container in Illinois (or Kentucky) that the USPS guys slowly fill with packages destined for the eBay International Shipping depot, and when it finally fills up weeks (or months) later, the USP eventually sends it to eBay. It also means the eBay system is essentially FILO (First In, Last Out) since the oldest package in the container will be the last package eBay staff removes and reships to its final destination.
That's why some eBay International Shipping packages seem to process quickly (top of the container) for some, while others take a month to finally be delivered to the eBay depot (bottom of the container).
This is the very first and very last time I use eBay International Shipping, as I literally have no idea when, or even if, this package will arrive and I've pretty well written it off as lost and will attempt a refund after it hits a month in transit to IL, which should be in about 7-8 days.
And that's not even getting in to the other profit-making, such as buyers supposedly paying for USPS service, but eBay using some cut-rate courier like DHL or UPS to actually ship from the US to the destination, which will naturally incur all kinds of spurious charges to make up for the artificially-low contract rates with eBay.
I can just see the skinflint in the boardroom piping up with "Hey, I got a great idea to steal even more money - we can add a big surcharge to put a new shipping label on all International packages. And the best part is, we can advertise USPS, but then make more money by reshipping using cheap couriers who will then overcharge customers."