Shaun Canning wrote: > > Without meaning to start some full scale inter-continental feud, can someone > please tell me why German sellers on e-bay almost invariably wont post > outside Germany? Is it something to do with customs or GST/VAT restrictions? > I have a German seller who has just told me it would be more to ship an > AF500FTZ and TR200 battery pack to Australia than the auction price. This > makes the postage somewhere in the vicinity of $AUD400.00 give or take. > ...
Shaun, I don't know how much money 400 AUD might be, but if you buy a used 500FTZ with that it's way too much, IMO. Generally speaking high shipping costs make transaction at long distances more problematic. Maybe thay don't want to be hassled by complicate shipping procedures or get caught getting money from their IRS equivalent through customs or avoid having their auctions get nowhere just because the high bidder folded after seeing the amout of money the shipping would cost. As far as the buying party agrees to pay whatever the costs are there should be no problem but I don't think I'd do that in this case... HTH, ciao, Flavio
