Ebay global shipping

Just another reason why I keep telling you guys in North America to post direct to us in Europe rather than use the global shipping option which is hellishly expensive for small items.

I can post up to 1 inch in thickness and printer paper sized in area up to 100g in weight to anywhere in the world for just over £4 - less to North America and less again to Europe but I have to include the Aussies and Kiwis here. That means I can send most Cox parts and small collections of parts for reasonable money to any corner of the globe. Yet global shipping charge a minimum of £13 for something like a $2 needle valve and usually more like around the £16 mark. An entire engine via global shipping typically costs £30 with no possibility of being overlooked for import taxes.

Global shipping is excellent however at the other end of the scale, things like model kits, where, from experience we'd normally be charged import VAT anyway and where the glbal shipping guys can normally ship cheaper or at least at the same price that Joe Blogs can by sending direct.

One more thing to add, since I gather you like to buy ans sell these engines, and that is I think posting international, direct and for reasonable rates is one of the biggest reasons sellers like rureelybob and gatafish are making a mint from out of production American modelling items most of which are hard to find outside the US. In fact there is a recent post on rcgroups where one of them says as much.

A small item can be a valuable item and First Class International doesn't have reliable tracking and neither EBay or PayPal will support it. If it doesn't make the trip or the buyer claims it never made it the seller looses and rureelybob and gatafish can afford to take a loss.
Joe