Does anyone know about shipping overseas?

[luciusad2004]

Hey all, I was selling an item on ebay and I have a potential customer asking me about shipping to Portugal. Does anyone know how difficult this is or how i can get a cost estimate? Is Portugal a known bad area in terms of getting scammed? He seems to have pretty good feedback so im not to worried about that but thought I would look in to it to see if there is anything I should look out for.

Also does anyone know how to adjust the price of an ebay listing at sale to accommodate this? Would I have to end the listing and start a new one? Maybe it's me but I find ebay kind of monstrous and confusing at times.

Thanks for any input.

[SXRguyinMA]

any shipper (www.usps.com, www.ups.com, www.fedex.com) will give you shipping estimates for time and cost to anywhere, you just need size and weight of the package for the most part

[luciusad2004]

Thanks!
I gave it a shot and it would cost me $160 to ship this overseas. Damn, I don't think it would be worth it for this guy to have a 50 dollar part shipped overseas.

[Twigsoffury]

Thanks!
I gave it a shot and it would cost me $160 to ship this overseas. Damn, I don't think it would be worth it for this guy to have a 50 dollar part shipped overseas.

hahaha

dang depends on how rare that part is where he lives!

We just shipped well over 1,200 650mhz computers to some call center over seas... either the Philippines or India... i can't remember.

[luciusad2004]

Well, it wasn't a computer part but a car part.
I had a Momo Steering wheel Hub Adapter from my old Civic up on ebay for like 50 bucks. I imagine since Momo is Italian he can probably at the very least find a retailer somewhere in Europe that can get it to him cheaper if not in his own country.

Edit: and 1200 650 ***MHZ*** makes me feel a little more compassionate for the poor guy on the other end of the line when i call any sort of support line.

My company has a crew over in India and after hours our clients calls get directed to a single guy in India. Our QA guy said that whenever he has to QA our India tech he feels so bad because usually our customers here his accent then proceed to scream expletive before promptly hanging up. I don't know what they expect when they try to call tech support at 3a.m. The american help desk apparently doesn't need sleep.

[slaveofconvention]

Must weigh a ton - my family in the US sends us a care parcel to the UK every christmas and it usually costs about $60-70 to send - and thats a fair sized box with a lot of freaky american foodstuffs in it!

[luciusad2004]

Must weigh a ton - my family in the US sends us a care parcel to the UK every christmas and it usually costs about $60-70 to send - and thats a fair sized box with a lot of freaky american foodstuffs in it!

I put in 5 pounds as an estimate. Who do they ship with?

[xr4man]

have you tried the post office? a momo steering wheel hub is not a big part and should fit in a fairly small box. i've shipped many fuel computers to canada and not had any issue with the post office.

also, i wouldn't worry too much about this guy being a scammer since you wouldn't send the part until you got paid anyway. he's the one to be worrying.

[slaveofconvention]

I think they just took it to the post office - it arrived here in the UK via our postal service, not through a courier

[billygoat333]

US postal service is pretty much the only way to ship overseas. It is much much cheaper (usually). IIRC, FEDEX when shipping overseas uses the same planes and systems that USPS uses (or is it vice versa? i don't remember been too long since I worked in a shipping business).

[luciusad2004]

I looked in to it and USPS was quite a bit cheaper. Would have been only 60 dollars. I had assumed that USPS wasnt a viable option. Still would have been pricey for him but at this point I had already to him that it wasn't worth it for him.