Consider Europe, Asia a new customers

[shallow_karl]

No, they are nowhere as valuable as the U S. (Was). But, they can fill some of the void if you work to find decent shipping rates.

[mrdutch1001]

"if you work to find decent shipping rates."

more like IF you have items that you will risk shipping without tracking! ...as for the average Canadian seller, there is no such thing as "decent shipping rates." to other International destinations... 

[dhslk]

ebay is showing exorbitantly long, completely inaccurate shipping estimates to International buyers again, at least for my listings, so thanks for that ebay. Does ebay ever do anything right?

[flipistics]

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@dhslk wrote:

ebay is showing exorbitantly long, completely inaccurate shipping estimates to International buyers again, at least for my listings, so thanks for that ebay. Does ebay ever do anything right?

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Looks fine to me. This is what I see. If you offer an overseas ground service, of course the estimates are going to be long. The air option looks reasonable.

[dhslk]

Yes, that is what I see. I have been offering ground service overseas for 20 years. It's what most of my customers want. It typically takes 5-7 weeks to UK/EU (used to take 4-5 before Brexit etc), and maybe 7-10 weeks to Australia. ebay is showing 6-16 weeks to my UK/EU customers!!! Out of thousands of surface parcels and Small Packets, I maybe had 2 take 12 weeks (going to Tahiti and Saudi Arabia) over almost 10 years. This is nuts!

[dhslk]

...over 20 years, not 10. 

[byto253]

I was looking at a listing noted in another post for a a lot Nintendo NES items and the EIS shipping rate to the UK for $29, which I thought was pretty good.   The lot value was over $100 so shipping easier to take in this case.

Going to do some testing with larger items to see if there are sweet spots for EIS with larger items to various non-US locations.

[femmefan1946]

International Air is pretty reasonable, considering. Good on speed, but no tracking. 

Especially compared to Tracked Packet International.

And either is wildly cheaper than UPS International, although to be annoyingly fair, UPS are promising to deliver yesterday if not sooner. 

The BUYER pays for shipping. 

If the buyer is shopping overseas , they could not find it locally and will consider the high cost of shipping as part of the cost of the otherwise unavailable item. 

Don't decide your buyer can't afford it. Let them decide if it fits their budget. 

Whether or not you use tracking depends on your demographic. 

Some categories rarely have problems with questionable INRs. 

Others, the seller has to use Cookie Jar Insurance on every shipment to cover sketchy Claims. 

And.

We can qualify for Global Top Rated Seller, and get that slightly lower fee etc, even if we are not tracking.

The main difference is that US buyers do not see the badge, but overseas and domestic sellers do.