International shipping problems...any ideas?

[briansraregames]

I have my listings set up to offer worldwide shipping on all my games. Recently, I have had a lot of international buyers (outside of the USA and Canada) tell me that they are having problems with ebay's checkout system. They tell me that ebay will not let them buy the items because an error message pops up telling them that I have not specified a shipping cost to their country. So far this has happened to buyers in the UK, Netherlands, Finland, Spain, France, Taiwan, Israel, and Germany. Now I know it's nothing that I have done since I use the same template for every listing and it's worked just fine so far. Anybody else having similar problems lately?

 

[caedeskhan]

From experience I decided just to ship to the US and Canada. Usually overseas shipping will be about $8 for a game. One country to avoid is Italy...I lost $30 on a package that the seller apparently never received. Brazil was pretty slow too, though Canada is fine. I have never sold to the UK, though I imagine it would be fine too.

 

[euamobigmac]

[quote name='caedeskhan']From experience I decided just to ship to the US and Canada. Usually overseas shipping will be about $8 for a game. One country to avoid is Italy...I lost $30 on a package that the seller apparently never received. Brazil was pretty slow too, though Canada is fine. I have never sold to the UK, though I imagine it would be fine too.[/quote]

As a brazilian gamer it behooves me to say eBay sellers are giving up shipping outside US all together because delivery times a longer and that makes my life pretty complicated since You can find true bargains on those soccer moms 'best offer' sales.

Yeah waiting for your precious games for a month can be quite scarry but I guess it all comes down to sellers being patient enough to explain delivery times may vary from country to country. I just got a book I bought two months from now - this never happens but... here I am reading my 60 freaking day deliver book, right ?

Hey if You guys ever have a question about eBay and shipping stuff to Brazil I insist on you contacting me : )