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Originally Posted by brandoningram
Now what about if the Canadian...myself for instance...was willing to pay the extra for first class priority mail with a sig required...no problem right?
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This is still a tough call if you're a Top Rated ebay seller. Top Rated gives you a 20% discount on all of your ebay fees, which can be pretty substantial. However, to get the discount, you basically need to maintain your Detailed Seller Ratings at a very high level, and the two big ones here are Shipping Time and Shipping/Handling Charges. If it takes a month to ship to Canada, you risk a serious ding for Shipping Time. If you send via First Class like in this case, the shipping charge to Canada may be $15+. Then you're risking that the buyer may ding you on Shipping Charges. (And to make this worse, ebay is now including shipping charges as part of the total sale that they charge the fees for.) The cumulative effect is that this is often too much risk for ebay sellers to sell to Canada. On the other hand, if some other alternative to ebay such as grandslambids is able to generate enough of a following, sellers would love to move their wares there. GSB has much lower fees than ebay, so the Top Rated system is irrelevant. Buyers are still protected if they pay via Paypal, and sellers can charge reasonable shipping fees to Canada that would include tracking and not worry about getting their DSR's dinged.