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.

[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.