I've sold to various parts of the former Soviet Union, with no problems. For some reason they buy Strunk & White 's Guide to English Writing and Robert's Rules of Order. Nothing else, but I've sold several of those titles.

And yes, Small Packet Air International with its $100 automatic insurance against loss or damage in transit is your friend.

While I have just emerged from my worst buyer experience EVER (and he/she was in Russia).

 

All the rest of my Russian buyers have been great and I've never had much of a problem with their postal system other than it being a tad slow (but as fast or faster than many other countries).

 

 

"What else could I do? I had no trade so I became a peddler" - Lazarus Greenberg 1915 - answering Trolls is voluntary, my policy is not to participate.

I am in the process of being scammed by a buyer in Russia over a cell phone issue.  S/he is alleging that the phone I listed and sold as new, other (because box was opened) is in fact used and damaged, which is not the case.  Emails from the buyer have been particularly nasty - calling me a liar, cheat, etc. when I have offered a refund.  From this experience, I would never sell to anyone in Russia again.

The buyer has in fact now opened a dispute with Paypal -- even though I offered a refund immediately upon receiving the phone back.  This is a person who had a feedback rating of 2, and I believe that he will end up getting a refund, plus my phone, because I don't expect to see it again.  I also think that is why he is going on and on about me -- calling me a "fraudster" on the Paypal dispute postings.  He is making far too big a deal about this considering I immediately offered him a refund, even though the condition of the phone he claims to have received is nothing at all like the phone I initially mailed to him.  And of course he is also promising to leave me horrible feedback.  This is my first experience with something like this -- although I have read about scams like this before on various discussion boards on the internet.  I honestly think this person is playing eBay, Paypal, and me, and I have this sinking feeling that I am going to come out the loser here.

 

Again, I repeat that I would never sell to anyone in Russia again.