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Feel free to share your thoughts about the Global Shipping Program here.
A few questions to get the ball rolling:
- What has worked well for you with the Global Shipping Program?
- Any ideas to help improve the experience for Canadian buyers?
- What has deterred you from buying items offered using the Global Shipping Program?
- How have you managed to search for items outside the program?
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@softgad wrote:I have been a member since 2000, have many purchased and sales. But I am really really unhappy with the exorbitant cost now of this shipping cost to canada. For instance shipping a camera lens that is value at $630 will cost $20 + $93 of import charges. You do not want to hear what it will cost in canadian dollars. Ebay has do work on this otherwise, Canadian will be force to buy only canadian products. Funny enough it is also more difficult to sell to USA, if we do our price are below what they will sell in USA even in Canadian dollars. THis need major revisions
This is not true. There will always be American sellers who will not use the GSP to ship their items.
Alex
Hello 'trekkiebigtime',
<< I would say 90% of the items shipped from the States do not have custom fees put on them. >>
You knew, didn't you, that the one to 'put the charges on' items coming in to Canada was the Canadian gov't:
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/postal-postale/duty-droits-eng.html
Low-priced items coming directly through the post do not always get assessed because it costs more to process the
charges than the piddly little amount that is taken in.
But because our government wants a share of anything over $20 in value, couriers and shipping companies like
the GSP are required by law to add these charges.
If you have not often had to pay charges it is because the items were of low value, . . . and you have been fortunate.
<< I just asked a seller what the costs without the GSP charges would be and he said he couldn't ship any other way. >>
That may depend how the seller defines "couldn't", -- if that was what he said. It is a seller protection policy and many
sellers really like it and indeed, won't ship any other way internationally.
Yes, they can opt out of the GSP, or even just take out a single listing on request, but if they choose not to do so,
that is their decision. After all, it is the seller and not the buyer who stands to lose if there is a problem.
In future, rather than ask a GSP seller what it costs to mail the item directly, perhaps you might like to get to know what
items cost to mail, so that you can instead sweetly ask the seller if he would be willing to mail the item to you via USPS
First Class International. You can point out that this is a tracked, Delivery Confirmed service, and even offer him this
link. He still, however, has every right to refuse you:
https://ircalc.usps.com/?country=10054
<< buyers should be able to opt out of paying these fees.>>
The way to do that is set up your Search properly. When you type your Search terms, be sure the View option beneath
the Search Bar is set to List (not Gallery).
After you click to 'go', (because setting up a search takes 2 steps) you can choose from the left side of the page the
Item Location. Why not try Canada Only? Always good to keep our Canadian dollars up here where they belong.
If you cannot find what you want by choosing Canada Only, try North America but as you scroll though the listings
train your eyes to pass by all those listings which whisper in pale grey,
Customs services and international tracking provided
That is a GSP item. And of course, if you are serious about conscientious shopping, then do your purchasing from a
real computer and not a phone. All that GSP information is not visible when using a mobile device. Whether or not
you think that means it is 'hidden' from the ever-impulsive phone user, . . . . .
<< Get rid of this system please.>>
It'll never happen. Read these boards, -- the GSP is getting increasingly sneaky about how it presents itself and how
it "redistributes" those fees. Ebay will only endeavour to make the system more palatable to international buyers, but
will never get rid of it. Therefore, as with everything else in life that we don't like and don't want, we must conduct
ourselves according to what best suits our own needs.
Begin by shopping from Canada. No Customs' delays, no import charges, no GSP, . . . 
