Buyer frenzy

[peterose4hof]

I offer international shipping worldwide on all my Ebay listings. I have had only 1 or 2 bad experiences in the past few years. That is a comparable if not better percentage than I have had with US buyers. You are going to run into unreasonable buyers no matter what country they reside in.

As a whole, international buyers seem to be more polite and appreciative. I have noticed of late that packages are taking much too long to get to my Canadian buyers. In fact, I shipped about 40 items internationally on Mon, August 6th to places like Canada, Germany, Italy, Austrailia, etc. I started receiving positive feedback from the non-Canadian buyers within a week to ten days, whereas it took a minimum of 2 weeks to receive feedback from my Canadian buyers. I recently got my first low DSR (1-2 stars) for shipping time from a Canadian buyer.

It pains me to say, but if this persists I may have to stop selling to Canada. My Top-Rated Seller status is far too valuable to risk losing.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by peterose4hof

My Top-Rated Seller status is far too valuable to risk losing.

I lost mine because I was charging actual shipping costs - had two buyers complain, and even after I showed them the shipping receipts ... status gone soon after.

Now I only do free shipping on baseball cards. But again, mostly to reduce the angst of senseless friction.

[zljones]

Originally Posted by peterose4hof

I offer international shipping worldwide on all my Ebay listings. I have had only 1 or 2 bad experiences in the past few years. That is a comparable if not better percentage than I have had with US buyers. You are going to run into unreasonable buyers no matter what country they reside in.

As a whole, international buyers seem to be more polite and appreciative. I have noticed of late that packages are taking much too long to get to my Canadian buyers. In fact, I shipped about 40 items internationally on Mon, August 6th to places like Canada, Germany, Italy, Austrailia, etc. I started receiving positive feedback from the non-Canadian buyers within a week to ten days, whereas it took a minimum of 2 weeks to receive feedback from my Canadian buyers. I recently got my first low DSR (1-2 stars) for shipping time from a Canadian buyer.

It pains me to say, but if this persists I may have to stop selling to Canada. My Top-Rated Seller status is far too valuable to risk losing.

That is my biggest fear is those dang stars. Since I am not usually a seller, anyone that zings my stars can block my funds thanks to Ebay. As a not very often seller like me I am basically skating on thin ice at all times so I crossed out all international and U.S. protectorite regions. If ebay was not so tight on stars like that then I would certainly ship international.