Date   : Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:07:04 +0100
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Overseas posting

Sprow wrote:
> In article <070810015515@...>,
>    Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
>>> Message-ID: <014001c7da92$f77e2bf0$2101a8c0@...>
>>  
>> "Anders Carlsson" <anders.carlsson@...> wrote:
>>> Off-topic: Speaking of "Grrr", it is the sound I utter every time I
>>> encounter an interesting auction on eBay UK (e.g. some Beeb-ware) that is
>>> explicitely said to be UK Only. With all respect to international 
>>> shipping fees, it should be the buyer's headache.
> 
> I find a lot of isolationist Americans on eBay who wont ship to the UK, and
> I struggle to understand why since they'd need to go to the post office to
> post it inland - what's so hard about putting a blue airmail sticker on it
> too?

Risk of damage / risk of buyer claiming it never turned up (and having to go 
through an insurance claim to get their money back), I suspect. I believe that 
ebay's policies favour the buyer when there are disputes about shipping, 
unless that's changed these days.

Personally I'm always a bit wary of selling to people abroad that I've never 
heard of - but I'm happy to do it if I've had any kind of dealing with the 
person before (which includes messages from mailing list regulars on public 
lists :-)