hr369 Posted December 8, 2015 Share #1 Posted December 8, 2015 Somehow my shipping options changed and this damn thing took over. What a nightmare for the international buyers. Its slow shippingand you have no control over which carrier is used. Tracking number didn't work and buyer pays what seems like more than necessarycustoms duties. For Austria they wanted 65$ duty on a 265$ item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheee! Posted December 8, 2015 Share #2 Posted December 8, 2015 I agree. Not sure if you can opt out or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinc Posted December 11, 2015 Share #3 Posted December 11, 2015 I believe it is up to the seller if they want to use it or not. I have asked several sellers to repost items without global shipping and all have accommodated the request. The global shipping program is the biggest rip-off going. You pay double the shipping costs and some arbitrary import fee. As hr369 mentioned it is also extremely slow and there is no tracking number. Between this scam and the declining Canadian dollar it has become much too expensive for Canadians to buy anything on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hr369 Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) I believe it is up to the seller if they want to use it or not. I have asked several sellers to repost items without global shipping and all have accommodated the request.The global shipping program is the biggest rip-off going. You pay double the shipping costs and some arbitrary import fee. As hr369 mentioned it is also extremely slow and there is no tracking number. Between this scam and the declining Canadian dollar it has become much too expensive for Canadians to buy anything on eBay.Yes its the sellers option. I was going through all the international shipping options in my setup and i must have selected it by accident. You know the last 3 people i've sold to are international and they've all had me send their package to freight forwarders in the usa.Lots of people have gotten burned by this and use the forwarders. I think many ebay sellers don't know how to do the customsforms and they put in an inflated value of good and the buyer gets a huge duty tax when he goes to pick it up. I just sent 2 speedometers to Denmark for 40$ shipping using first class usps. I put used, broken, parts only.Technically this fit the description. Edited December 12, 2015 by hr369 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheee! Posted December 12, 2015 Share #5 Posted December 12, 2015 Shipping to Canada should NOT be such a ripoff. I guess us Canadians are just too polite to complain... But I'm getting tired of being ripped off by shippers and now eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hr369 Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share #6 Posted December 12, 2015 Isn't Alberta only 5% duty tax? Wasn't NAFTA supposed to help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheee! Posted December 12, 2015 Share #7 Posted December 12, 2015 5% GST (Goods and Services Tax) No provincial tax. That is added to all sales in Canada and by Border agents.Import fees, duties and brokerage PLUS exorbitant shipping costs PLUS 30% exchange rate on the credit card make it a huge hit.... Keep in mind, in Canada, there is no Free Shipping like in the States.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hr369 Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share #8 Posted December 12, 2015 ah... its your 30% currency haircut thats getting you. Just wait until oil prices go back up. Those tar sands and your dollar will eventually go back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zKars Posted February 1, 2016 Share #9 Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) Ok, so I just bought some stuff on ebay from a seller in Maryland. He used the Global shipping program as I'm in Western Canada. Here are the details. The total for the item was $100.18 Canadian, and the shipping cost was $10 flat (seller determined). The "import fee" from the global shipping side was $9.53. The order was put in on Jan 20. I just received the parcel today. 12 days later. Facts. It arrived using the post office. There were no additional charges on arrival. Not even GST, which I'm confused about. Normally I pay the 5% GST on the declared value using postal shipping when it arrives here. Maybe that was part of the $9.53. Anyway, I am happy on almost all counts. Costs, and timing. stuff usually takes 6-10 days when I get something postal from the US. It did go to some central global shipping place in Kentucky first (2-day priority), who then forwarded it to me. The CanadaPost sticker layed over the USPS sticker from MD-KY claims it came from Pitney Bowes in Toronto to me. Nothing on the packaging about how it got from KY to Toronto. Magic! The only thing I didn't like was the tracking. I had no idea which specific shippng method was being used (postal, fedex, ups etc), and I never had a tracking number from that company. ebay/paypal was keeping me informed of the progress in a fairly informal way. They told me when it hit the global shipping place in Kentucky, then told me it cleared customs and was out for delivery, and to expect it from Jan 29-Feb6. Thanks.... Edited February 1, 2016 by zKars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheee! Posted February 1, 2016 Share #10 Posted February 1, 2016 It really sucks.... The shippers in the States like it cuz they ship cheap and local to Kentucky and then someone else deals with all the rest of the details of getting it here. The downside is we pay twice or more than what we would pay if was shipped via USPS... The mandatory "Duty" fee is bogus as it is just a percentage of the total price of the item. Then like you said, there is absolutlely no tracking other than when to expect your parcel. I heard if you add a PO to you address, the global shipping option should not pop up (Global Shipping does not do PO Boxes) Change your ebay shipping address to "PO 22 Anywhere Street" and it should drop the Global Shipping as a default on your items in the shipping info area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hr369 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share #11 Posted February 1, 2016 To deliver to germany from usa took 21 days using global shpping. To deliver to denmark from usa took 8 days using first class international These packages were dropped at the post office the same day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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