I've found it's not about shipping costs it's about shipping pain-in-the-assness. If I ship something in the US I don't have disclose what is in it or worry about customs or anything. If I do the same to overseas I do. Having shipped something to korea once and had to go through a million questions and even THEN have to play whack-a-mole with customs on the other end just to get the goods to the recipient I understand why someone would want to avoid the mess.
It's not about distrust of YOU it's about dealing with irritating officials. -sv On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jay in Tel Aviv <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been fairly active on this list since I got my Sam last summer. > I have participated in discussions, bought and sold a few things > (including my Sam, thanks Forrest) and generally tried to be helpful > when I have something to add. I find the people here generally quite > knowledgable and friendly. It is a good groupvand I'm happy to be part > of it. > > Once in a while, though, I have experienced something which to be > seems very strange and a bit insulting. A few times people have > refused to complete a transaction with me when they find out I live > overseas. Shipping costs have not been the issue, it seems more loke a > lack of willingness to trust a random foriegner on the internet. > > I just lost a sale on another group in circumstances like those. The > buyer got the answeres he was looking for to his questions and then > balked when he saw thay my email wasn't from the US. > > I feel like I'm missing something here. > > Jay > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
