Anyone use eBay's "Global Shipping" program regularly?

I stopped shipping outside of the US a while back because the shipping prices started to fluctuate so much. Back when I sold my main collection in 2006, $6 just about covered it. Occasionally, it'd be a little cheaper and some times it was a smidge more than $6, but it was usually in that ballpark pretty closely.

Now, it seems to be all over the place and some countries seem to be expensive as hell, and I'm not willing to eat it every time, especially when CDs sell for such a smaller amount than they were in 2006. I also don't want to overcharge, as it will decrease interest in the auctions and I personally wouldn't want to get shafted because of a "just in case" scenario.

So I recently put the option of the Global Shipping, where you ship it to eBay's center and they ship it to the buyer. Only one auction sold outside the US, so that was the only CD I shipped that way. And it is the only CD I've ever sold, out of the 1,000 or so that I've sol on eBay, where the person claimed the CD had arrived shattered to pieces (they went the wrong way about informing me, and as a result, my only negative seller feedback, but that is beside the point).

So it kinda made me leary of offering to ship globally using that program again. Anyone use the program? Is damaged stuff a regular occurrence when shipping it to eBay's shipping center and then them shipping it to the buyer?

Nope. Sorry.

As a frequent buyer and seller on ebay, I stopped shipping outside the US when the Post Office raised the rates about a year or so ago. It was outrageously expensive, especially for something as small and light as a cd.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Nope. Sorry.

As a frequent buyer and seller on ebay, I stopped shipping outside the US when the Post Office raised the rates about a year or so ago. It was outrageously expensive, especially for something as small and light as a cd.

Yeah that is the ideal beauty of the Global Shipping program, as it mitigates that expense on the US sellers end (not idea what the buyer pays to eBay exactly), but it certainly is not worth it if they always break stuff.

Once I stopped shipping overseas, I never really bothered looking into an alternative method. I'm a lazy, lazy man.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Once I stopped shipping overseas, I never really bothered looking into an alternative method. I'm a lazy, lazy man.

I definitely get that...ha, you might want to check next time you list a CD then, because eBay automatically selects the Global Shipping option. That's how I used it the first time, as I didn't even realize a batch of CDs I listed up had that option selected. I have to manually un-select it. Not sure if there is a way to have it as a default setting--haven't really looked--I too am pretty lazy. Ha.