Point of View of Buyer . Well the problems with purchases thru the Net works both way. The past 15mths I have purchased more than 1200Lps thru ebay, audiogon and other sites. 99.5% of the purchases are problem free. Some of the purchases were fr Sellers who quoted USA only. After losing a few LPs, I always asked for USPS airmail parcel or EMS which is trackable and so far has not lose any shipped these manner. Off course if the item is expensive I will ship Fedex or UPS. I suspect a couple of times Sellers did not ship items I won cheap in which I shipped thru normal airmail-non trackable. No recourse for buyer to claim refund. So buyers do face problems as well. If u want to be careful insist on registered mail that is trackable. With such shipping no way buyers can deny not receiving it. Howevr if u insist on shipping with insurance u may not attract bidders fr country with high tax like Malaysia. Tax for CD is 35% + 10%, LP 10%, pre/power /cable 25% + 10% (?). Couple with high shipping cost, it will certainly refrain me fr buying. A single LP airmail parcel cost abt USD15-20 depending on Sellers.
To prevent unnecessary problems it will help to quote shipping charge at site to prevent future dispute on high shipping charge particular for buyers fr Asia. If u were to watch bidding carefully u do noticed that generally auctions that allow worldwide shipping do attract higher bids. There are a lot of crazily high bidders fr Asia esp Taiwan (strong currency I suppose). If selling thru the Net is yr way of doing biz, it certainly make sense to allow worldwide bidding. As for paypal fees been high just charge buyers 4%. If I want somethg I will pay for the small fees. I hope this feedback will help some Sellers to sell worldwide with confidence. A con is a con whether they are fr USA or the rest of the world. There are conman all over the way. Just be careful
To prevent unnecessary problems it will help to quote shipping charge at site to prevent future dispute on high shipping charge particular for buyers fr Asia. If u were to watch bidding carefully u do noticed that generally auctions that allow worldwide shipping do attract higher bids. There are a lot of crazily high bidders fr Asia esp Taiwan (strong currency I suppose). If selling thru the Net is yr way of doing biz, it certainly make sense to allow worldwide bidding. As for paypal fees been high just charge buyers 4%. If I want somethg I will pay for the small fees. I hope this feedback will help some Sellers to sell worldwide with confidence. A con is a con whether they are fr USA or the rest of the world. There are conman all over the way. Just be careful