Hi Peter ( and all)
Speaking as one of the minority of this group, living outside the USA, I
wonder what all the fuss is about shipping internationally.
During the last 3 - 4 months I have bought a lot of photo gear (too much !!);
through eBay, from individuals ( including in this group), and companies such
as MidWest Photographic Exchange, Equinox, Igor, and so on. The
countries I have bought from include South Africa, Australia, UK, USA,
Denmark and Bangkok. During the last 3 years I have bought literally scores
of books via abebooks dot com, through the now-defunct bibliofind. Often
with the books I deal directly with the seller.
In all this I have had only ONE purchase go anywhere near sour, and this
was a Mamiya 6x9 lever-wind rollfilm back. It didn't count the frames. It does
now - took my repairman about 5 minutes to suss out. I believe the vendor
just didn't know it had a fault.
I have paid using Mastercard, PayPal, Bidpoint and Telegraphed money
(expensive). I even posted US $$ notes for one purchase that had no other
way for payment.
I have found many vendors in the US to be extremely helpful in sorting out
the cheapest or most suitable post option; and this makes a huge difference
to cost sometimes. And I have had many enjoyable exchanges of words and
jokes along the way.
My 2 cents worth.
Brian
PS; I hope to get some shots back tomorrow of the Tasmanian Devil (NZ
version) as well as the SUV which helped me so ably. ;=)
I'll advise when I post, natch'
>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:08:03 -0800
> From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Beware of foreign entanglements?
>
> It turns out that the buyer is indeed in France, but he has a brother in
> the U.S. So everything is all right.
>
> It does seem that shipping and getting paid internationally is not as hard as
> I'd thought. So I should be open to it. Though, as a fairly small-time
> seller,
> I don't want to end up with several "middleman" accounts that have to be
> maintained, so I do prefer dealing directly with the buyer and getting a
> cashier's check.
>
> - --Peter Klein
> Seattle, WA
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