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radegala-0 · ‎09-26-2017

Basically, I want an item from a shop that only ships to Canada, is it possible or does someone do this kind of service directly here where they buy it for you, ship to themsleves and then ship it to you internationally? Maybe some very reputable sellers do it on the side?

Thanks.

reallynicestamps · ‎09-26-2017

What you are looking for is a Freight Forwarder.

EBay has a similar program set up for US and UK sellers who are afraid to ship outside their borders. It's called the Global Shipping Program. It is not designed to offer any benefits for buyers. It is purely a Seller Protection program.

A freight forwarder would give you a Canadian address (their plant) where your Canadian shipper sends your purchases.

Some forwarders will also handle import costs (duty /sales taxes) . All will charge you a fee.

For the Czech Republic, I would suggest looking at this website for freight forwarders in Montreal or Halifax, both of which are important ports.

http://www.ciffa.com/

radegala-0 · ‎09-26-2017

I don't really understand the website. It looks like it's useful for forwarding big stuff, nothing that fits my requirements or maybe I just don't know where to look. I also don't want to pay $50, and fill 20 different forms just to send one measly $20 T-Shirt.

Maybe I have explained it poorly, I simply want someone to order a T-Shirt for me from a shop (or I order it for him to his address) and then he ships it to me for some fee of course.

Maybe that's exactly what the site can help me with, can you direct me?

reallynicestamps · ‎09-26-2017

Sorry.

That was just the first item that came up when I googled 'freight forwarders canada'.

It seemed to be an association so one or two of the 250 association members may be interested in your business.

International shipping is expensive.

Here are the Canada Post rates:

https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/far/business/findARate?execution=e1s1

Even 30 gram letters jump from 85 cents domestically to $2.50 internationally.

The $50 fees may be no exaggeration.

radegala-0 · ‎09-26-2017

Believe me when I say I googled a lot.

None of the usual reshipping/forwarding services located in the US have a Canadian address, and doing what you said is like finding a needle in a haystack.

I thought it would be much easier to just agree on this matter with any reputable seller here on eBay from Canada.

Worst thing that can happen (hypothetically) is they will have to sell the item to someone else, but believe me I will go through with it, if the fees aren't too high, as I said.

momcqueen · ‎09-26-2017

Clothes are not my thing but toys are. I have done this for an ebay buyer: set up the toy item as a pre-order and then add a modest handling fee to the price and then ship it to them when they buy it from me after I bought it from the other seller. If I were you and I wanted that Thirt, I would look for Canadian ebay T-shirt sellers and approach them directly one at a time via Message with your request. This was how the other buyer(s) found me and convinced me to agree to do it.

Also, shipping to the Czech Republic with tracking is like $50 CAD. You need to be prepared to pay that, no intelligent seller would agree to anything but shipping with tracking to you for a request like this. You're asking a seller to do work with little to no payoff, never mind taking the risk of shipping without tracking. That is a lose/lose prospect.

Good luck.

momcqueen · ‎09-26-2017

To clarify, what you are asking to do and would have to agree to do is the following:

Get a seller to buy the shift you want. Price plus postage to them, you pay. Also a handling fee for their time and listing fess and final value fees and paypal transaction fees to cover their cost and time to sell it to you on ebay. And then you're paying another $50 postage on top of that.

So let's pretend it's a $25 t-shirt with $10 postage to my house. That's costly me $35 to acquire it. Then it takes me an hour to sell it to you and costs me another $10. Add $20 to that $35 for my trouble. And then $50 postage. Your $25 has become a $105 t-shirt. That's not even an amount that allows the seller to profit, because it's costing them to sell it to you and you are paying postage twice, for two legs of a journey.

Is it worth that? Only you can decide.

radegala-0 · ‎09-27-2017

Hmmm,

I'm not really sure where you are getting these values from....

I tried that Canada Post calculator that 'reallynicestamps' sent and I got a $10 shipping fee...

How does selling me one item cost you additional $10? Why are you talking about profit when the seller gets $20?

Is $20 not enough for you?

In here $20 for simply forwarding a package would be quite a lot.

Thanks nonetheless.

ypdc_dennis · ‎09-27-2017

@radegala-0 wrote:
I'm not really sure where you are getting these values from....
I tried that Canada Post calculator that 'reallynicestamps' sent and I got a $10 shipping fee...

That $10 rate would be for an untracked parcel to the Czech Republic.

Small packet air to 250g is about $10, to 500g is about $19.

Tracked for up to 500g is $62 for Xpresspost (there is no 250g level)

Canada Post does have a less expensive tracked service, but unfortunately, the Czech Republic is not one of the countries currently supported.

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momcqueen · ‎09-27-2017

@radegala-0 wrote:
Hmmm,

I'm not really sure where you are getting these values from....
I tried that Canada Post calculator that 'reallynicestamps' sent and I got a $10 shipping fee...

How does selling me one item cost you additional $10? Why are you talking about profit when the seller gets $20?
Is $20 not enough for you?

In here $20 for simply forwarding a package would be quite a lot.

Thanks nonetheless.

Oh, I wasn't offering to do this for you. I only ship with tracking and my time is too valuable to give away for free. I explained where the money was allotted. Good luck in your continued search.

femmefan1946 · ‎09-27-2017

1 Timothy 5:18

Or to put it on a less spiritual level:

Well, maybe I'm not a fancy gentleman like you, with your... very fine hat. But I do business. We're here for business.-- Captain Malcolm Reynolds.

radegala-0 · ‎09-28-2017

@mjwl2006 wrote:

Oh, I wasn't offering to do this for you. I only ship with tracking and my time is too valuable to give away for free. I explained where the money was allotted. Good luck in your continued search.

I wasn't implying you were, but if $20 profit is doing something for "free"...

Thanks.

momcqueen · ‎09-28-2017

I think what you fail to understand in this scenario is that any ebay seller in Canada who would buy this from the original seller and then ship it you would would have to create a new, separate listing on ebay for that transaction to turn around and sell it to you. This costs the Canadian seller doing you a favour time and money: insertion fees to create the listing, final value fees to sell it to you, and then paypal fees to accept your payment.

I couldn't just buy it from the other guy and send it to you on the side. That is against ebay rules and I would be severely punished for it. And when I say severely, I mean that. Severely. Punished.

So, again, you're asking a seller to buy this t-shirt you want and cannot have, create a new listing on ebay at considerable personal time and business expense, accept your payment at a cost to do so, and then ship it to you in the Czech Republic with tracking. That's how your $20-tshirt becomes a $105 dollar t-shirt: two separate transactions with two purchases taking place, fees payable, to both ebay and paypal, and then still shipping with tracking on two legs of a journey. T-shirt to the seller in Canada and then from the seller in Canada to you overseas.

And if the only way to get it to you in less than six months transit with tracking is by Xpresspost, you're looking at $62 to ship and not $50 like I said earlier, so add another $12 to the $105. No seller with any amount of sanity would agree to do this for a total stranger without tracking. Nor should you expect it.

We're businesses here, this is ebay, it's a place of business. Ebay doesn't give us service for free, we cannot give away for free what we don't have.

Do you see it now?

femmefan1946 · ‎09-28-2017

You'd think with the number of immigrants in this country that everyone everywhere would have a Canadian cousin.

(We got here in 1952, to beat the rush.)

momcqueen · ‎09-29-2017

Yes. Like if this was a special UK-only LEGO promo item that I might want but couldn't get shipped to Canada (there's been a few of those), I'd probably go to one of my LEGO nerd/fan groups or sites or discussion boards and kindly ask another user who might already 'know' me from my posts on other LEGO discussions who might happen to live in like the UK, for example, and want to do me a solid.