Buying Hardy fly reels

[902ljb]

I am on eBay every day checking on used Hardy fly reels and if you check you,ll notice that I bought a few over the years. Now the problem that bothers me is the Japanese sellers with their insane inflated prices,I did contact a Japanese seller a few years ago and told him that the Hardy reels that he was selling were way,way over priced and he explained that his listings were just for the Japanese market so why not give them their own sight or put their listings in the front or in the back of all the listings.                 Another thing that I wish eBay would do,is stop putting the same listed reels on every third page or whatever,I,d like to know why you do this, I know what i,m looking at and I do not like looking at the same reel,s over and over. The day is coming when I stop buying on your site and it will be sooner rather than later. I know this will fall on deaf ears because I,ve made recamendations before and you didn,t follow up,as far as I,m concerned all eBay is about is making money any way you can,typical American company and when every seller goes to that global shipping rip off system is the day I,m done.Anyone outside the U,S. would be better served by their own County,s taxes and duty,s than that bull**bleep**,American protectionism.

[reallynicestamps]

How are you Searching?

Best Match is sometimes weird, but you could try Lowest Price plus Shipping (or Highest, but I suspect that would give you the Japanese market prices) or Newly Listed. 

There are a few choices in the dropdown menu.

Then there are other choices on the left side Search menu which include the price range. 

I was looking at one of my favourite Searches to check out what we see, and one I didn't see was choosing North America as the location of the product. But it's there for some* products .

Japanese sellers with their insane inflated prices,...his listings were just for the Japanese market so why not give them their own sight 

There is an eBay Japan

https://www.ebay.co.jp/

But just as many Canadian sellers also list on dotCOM as do German and Australian and Singaporean, the Japanese have found they have a market here.

DotCOM is the go to site for buyers around the world. Many do not realize there are national sites, and of course dotCOM serves the world's largest single economy, the USA.

or put their listings in the front or in the back of all the listings.

This again may have something to do with your Search.

One criterion for Best Match is number sold, and if those Japanese sellers are moving a lot of reels they will rise in placement.

as far as I,m concerned all eBay is about is making money any way you can,

You just described capitalism.

.Anyone outside the U,S. would be better served by their own County,s taxes a

I'm not clear on what you are trying to say, but here we are on dotCA, the Canadian site.

You will find US sellers here (and dotCOM sellers from all around the world) as long as they will ship to Canada.

*My favourite Search is for ephemera from a cult TV show cancelled in 2002 after half a season. No one outside of this continent cares.

[902ljb]

You missed most of what I was trying to say, when you see a reel on from Japan that say,s the bidding starts at $400 or $500 dollars but the reel is only worth $200 you tell me why anybody would buy that and I do not buy from the U.S. any more because of the global shipping system. I,m serious when I tell you that you don,t start charging Duty on a dollar,Canadian customs would charge way less on an item bought than the global shipping system that,s why I buy only from Britain or elsewhere that doesn,t use the global shipping sytem,here,s an example ,I bought some fly tying feathers recently that cost me around $120 Canadian,when I picked it up at the post office all I had to do was sigh for it, if that was from the states I would have had to pay a lot ,so I will not buy anything from the US again.

[femmefan1946]

Your Japanese sellers have discovered that they can buy retail ($200) in North America and make a profit selling in Japan ($400+).

It's called arbitrage and was one of the reasons eBay was so successful in its early days.

Many items were hard to find in the 1990s which suddenly came on the market, when people learned there was a market for their "junk".

And of course, the popularity of Jerry Lewis in France is legendary.

The eBayUK site actually does make the GSP available, but like dotCOM using it is optional.  At a  guess UK reel sellers are more comfortable selling to Canada than US sellers.

FWIW, the duty-free allowance for the USA went up to $150 on US-made goods as of July 1, although the sales tax free allowance is only $40.