Which ebay?

[seymour]

Hi all

 

I started following ebay with the U.K. branch and have been pretty satisfied, specifically because the postage from Britian is far cheaper than that from the States.

 

Which of the two branches, U.S. or U.k. is better for somebody who is not resident in either of the countries?

 

Chaim

[Beechwood]

Much bigger choice on older pens with .com but some US sellers sometimes limit the sale to US only.

 

Some P and P US charges can be extreme, such as $30 for a single pen.

 

Others, by contrast, very modest, $4 for a boxed FP/MP

 

More likely to find mint and boxed in the US

Edited July 1, 2009 by Arthur

[diplomat]

What Arthur said plus keep in mind that now it is possible to launch "international" queries from ebay by selecting "in the world" in the "location" section at the bottom left of the page. It is also possible to restrict the results by distance of the object from you.

 

To me ebay US is a paradise whose snakes are the lenght of the shipment an the possibility that the custom will catch the item and keep it for ages..

[Maolo]

To me ebay US is a paradise whose snakes are the lenght of the shipment an the possibility that the custom will catch the item and keep it for ages..

 

Agreed!

[Aysedasi]

I'm in the UK and I've always searched 'worldwide' although sometimes now I limit my searches to Europe as p&p costs from the US to the UK are getting to the stage where many purchases just aren't viable any more, with the costs of shipping sometimes far outstripping the valuie of the pen......

[eric47]

What Arthur said plus keep in mind that now it is possible to launch "international" queries from ebay by selecting "in the world" in the "location" section at the bottom left of the page. It is also possible to restrict the results by distance of the object from you.

 

To me ebay US is a paradise whose snakes are the length of the shipment an the possibility that the custom will catch the item and keep it for ages..

The "world" search, in a way, also works as a filter, grabbing those auctions where the seller will ship to you -- I'm pretty sure as determined by the value of "ships to". This is both good and bad. Good because it filters out the extraneous auctions that are deemed by seller as off limits.

 

Bad if the seller hasn't properly listed the "ships to" field; I've seen a number of US auctions where the auction states that international shipping is o.k., but the "ships" is flagged as US only. These auctions won't appear in a "world" (or even "Europe") search.

Edited July 3, 2009 by eric47