Countries You Don't Ship To

I only ship within the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii, Territories, APO and FPO).

I used to ship Internationally but the incidents of INR, late deliveries, customs hang ups and chargebacks was just too cost prohibitive to continue. The biggest problem for US based Sellers shipping internationally is trying to ship items cost effectively with some type of delivery confirmation.

If you try to build in your true international shipping cost to the ebay widget you are selling, so you can offer "free shipping", you won't sell anything.

I may revisit it in the future but as of now, no thanks.

Like mentioned the majority of scams will come from Africa and Asia. South America has their share to but in all honesty there's a lot of countries you don't want coins going through their postal system. Customs even to a "safe" country can kill you holding the product up to a month which of course results in a case being opened.

In my opinion if you aren't a major bulk seller international shipping creates more problems then in its worth for a few extra sales. If someone wants international shipping they can contact me and I decide yes or no on a case by case basis. Generally I never hear from them again after telling them what the shipping cost is.

Overall though my international experience hasn't been good. One item went to Canada and sat in customs for three weeks the other went to Australia where it was stolen when it left the US. Fortunately both buyers were understanding and didn't blame me for something out of my control, but if they had I would have been out a couple hundred dollars. Needless to say that was the end of my international selling.

If you can just ship to USA it tskes away alot of the risk and problems. And as others mentioned, the cost is crazy to do international!!