Ebay sellers not shipping to Canada?

[rhettyeakley]

Ditto what everyone here is saying. I do ship to Canada (and the UK, Australia, etc.) but I usually make the buyer contact me first and give them the option of USPS Global Priority (usually $12-15 or so) or my reg shipping fee w/o tracking (& let them know I'm not responsible for any item not getting there). I have only ever had one person opt for the priority and that was before X-mas and they wanted it faster for a gift. I also understand that even though we had the conversation should we ever go to ebay "court" I'd still probably lose, I will usually do it anyways. Anybody I know personally from Canada has carte blanche to purchase my items from ebay with no questions asked (as I trust them).

Once ebay prevented sellers from leaving negative feedbacks it became a pretty common Canadian scam to just get free crap from people by doing what others have described above, I was the victim of this once or twice but both items were fairly small and it was basically "the cost of doing business" up north. However, I have been very hesitant to started selling much of my vintage Hockey b/c I know half the buyers will be Canadian and someone will probably try something, but I may bite the bullet at some point.

-Rhett

[slidekellyslide]

I sell to Canada, but I always cross my fingers if it goes First Class shipping. I think Canada has the slowest postal system on Earth...almost every time I ship something to Canada a week later I get that same annoying ebay email asking "Where's my item?" You'd think that Canadian buyers would understand that shipping is slow if it's coming from the US. The only thing more annoying than that email is when they ask me to lie on the customs form. With all that said it's still worth it to me to deal with Canadians.

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

...(& let them know I'm not responsible for any item not getting there). I have only ever had one person opt for the priority and that was before X-mas and they wanted it faster for a gift. I also understand that even though we had the conversation should we ever go to ebay "court" I'd still probably lose,...

You will most certainly lose. Paypal follows the guidelines to the letter.

In the early days of the unholy ebay/Paypal alliance, I lost an $1,100 item in "eBay court" because someone claimed "they didn't get it." While I had tracking information that showed delivery, I didn't know I needed a signature as well. (The buyer asked me to send without signature because he was not home during the day and couldn't make it to the PO on weekends. In retrospect, that was part of the set-up for the scam.)

[glchen]

Yea, adding another US ebay seller who doesn't ship to Canada because of the tracking issue. And the slow as heck time it takes for an item to get to Canada (~a month). If you're a Top Rated Ebay seller, there's simply too much risk that you will get scammed, get negged, or get a low DSR due to slow shipping.

On the flip side, I actually buy from Canadian sellers all of the time. It takes forever and a day for my cards to arrive, but if you're looking for rare Canadian issued cards or hockey cards, this is what you gotta do.

[bobbyw8469]

I had a Canadian buyer pull the old "I didn't get it" scam. Ever since then, I have to use some type of tracking, and for international shipments, tracking is quite expensive!! Most Canadian bidders don't wish to pay $20+ shipping for a slabbed card.

[slidekellyslide]

I sent a couple postcards up to Canada recently that were both valued over $100 each...I sent them first class, but both buyers had been on ebay for 10 years and had perfect feedback. I crossed my fingers they wouldn't get lost, but I felt assured that these buyers weren't scammers.

[Jewish-collector]

As a relatively new low-end seller on eBay, I do NOT ship to Canada. As a matter of fact, I select all of the safe selling features of eBay (only sell to verified addresses, only positive feedback, etc,...). As a novice learning to sell very low value cards on eBay, the last thing I want are problems mentioned in this thread.

[Exhibitman]

Me too. Heard one too many horror stories about being conned by Canadian buyers who exploit the holes in the Paypal system.