Yes germany is bit special, i know that from friends. Usually if a package arrives from a non EU-Country, the package will stay a few days in the customs warehouse, then they will get a small piece of paper with an invitation to you (can easily be lost). Depending on location and carrier, the next customs warehouse can be 45Minutes or more of drive from you away! They will not call you or anything else, you just get that small invitaiton to your post-box, if you don't have one, the will stick it on your door! If you not pick up the parcel in a reasonable time, it will be returned to the sender (of course, at the cheapest and therefor slowest service). Its the same thing with in country parcels, they get lost or stuck a lot. Its an awful process!! Like here in switzerland its much easier, if the sender indicates the value on the package, the postman will collect the tax at your door, or will place the package at your LOCAL post office if your not home. If there is no indicated value, they will open the package in the customs ware house and guess the value - in some rare cases they will call you and you have to fax the receipt, but usually they guess a low value since they not know the value (i got 6 IN-18 without custom tax because they guessed it as "used electronic parts").
Anyway, if you would need help with german, i'm happy to help :) But ebay can have a very bug-like behaviour sometimes - like not showing products is one of the things i hate. If i log on with my swiss ebay account at ebay USA it still will not let me see items that only ship to us! I have to log out, then run a search, note the acution number, then log in and paste the auction number to ask the seller or watch. Also if you make changes to delivery adressses (have one in Germany), some parts on my watch-list magically dissapear instead of displaying "NOT SHIPPING TO YOUR COUNTRY" etc.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/acb1d1a0-23a9-4b8c-9569-624509a4b647%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
