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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1354 Posts |
Has anybody ever had sales or issues in relation to people buying your items, but they are prohibited in their country? Have you ever shipped them? Were they ever seized? Etc..
My example.
Someone From Indonesia is wanting to buy an item I have that has Chinese characters and writing on it. It is illegal to send this to their country.
Any stories would help...
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Just my opinion coin chick, I wouldn't send anything to any country except U.K. Australia and of course to the U.S. I sent a bunch of Canada nickel fifty cents to Turkey once, never heard from them again.  |
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Valued Member
Canada
196 Posts |
100% do not ship to Indonesia. The mailing system sucks and the street name and unit numbers are ridiculous. You have to use fedex or DHL if you want any chance of reaching customer.
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Valued Member
Canada
306 Posts |
Why is this illegal in Indonesia? If it is illegal, I think you are just asking for trouble if you ship it.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
695 Posts |
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Valued Member
United States
178 Posts |
Every time I have to ship to other country I call to USPS and they check in the computer if that country accept to send coins by regular certified mail and some countries don't accept the foreign money including any kind of collection coins , and customs retain the package and you loose ... if you accept buyers around the world , ask + insurance to cover your back...
There are some exceptions like some friends say (Canada, USA, Australia,UK ...)
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New Member
Singapore
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I've sold a banknote to a buyer from Indonesia and the item was received using registered post. There should be no problem sending things with Chinese characters on it. I used to post hand phones, shoes, clothes in a big box using registered post, still no problem.
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Bedrock of the Community
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If somethings illegal to send to a country I wouldnt do it. The Indonesian police arent going to kick your door down but their customers may just enjoy your item for free and youll be out the money. Its really just not worth the aggravation or risk.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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"Why is this illegal in Indonesia?" the linked wiki-article seems to be written from a very benign point of view. At different times, some parts of Indonesia have been afflicted with inter-ethnic tension, which occasionally became violent. 1965 was "The Year of Living Dangerously" in Indonesia - Mel GIBSON made a movie about it. With the full benefit of hindsight, it seems now that the Government of the day fostered ethnic tensions, as a means of distracting the population from other issues (corruption, cronyism ?) Also, I suspect that the Jakarta government may have subscribed to the domino-theory of south-east Asian politics, and they feared that the large Chinese community might have harboured revolutionaries, and that Chinese texts might be subversive: remember, this was the Cold-War era. Those days are long gone. I have visited Indonesia 29 times, and I remember the customs declaration referred to Chinese writing. I can't recall if it's still on the list of prohibited imports. The bigger mystery to me is why the Indonesians prohibit the import of kites ... ? I have not tried to post anything to Indonesia, so I can't comment on that. Once, I bought a few old coins from an ebay vendor in Java, and they turned up in the mail a few weeks later - all OK. |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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There are similar issues shipping to Saudi Arabia & India. Collectable coins are prohibited import items (and likely to be consficated by customs).
Edited by marz
03/28/2013 10:20 pm
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Valued Member
United States
200 Posts |
I stopped shipping overseas after looking at the huge problems involved. Not worth the headache and its much more likely that you will lose the package on the way or buyer will get the package but still claim non-receipt.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I mail coins to countries that have prohibitions against sending coins through the mail all the time, I merely ship them as machined metal disks and have no problems with them getting through. Since coins look the same as a machined metal disk on an xray machine, their is nothing suspicious about the package to warrant customs seizing it. For shipping banknotes I merely write printed materials or artistic paper, since that also matches up to what a banknote is as well.
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Posted 03/25/2013 12:58 pm
