Paypal and international shipping don't mix. www.paypalsucks.org .com?. www.about paypal.org .com? Plus 40 different customs forms, currency conversions etc. is an extra hassle, and in the Asian contries it costs more than its worth. Also higher ticket items are often not protected by insurance or fraud.

Right now America is still the greatest share of ebay, for the American public, myself included, it is a lot easier that way. Its not Arrogance as mich as LAZINESS. There is enough of a buyer base here, to not have to worry about over "there". Unfortunately for the rest of the world that idea does not fit well.

One can avoid offending an un-desired bidder from an un-approved of country, by going to ebay preferences and selecting the countries to which one wishes to omit doing business.

It is not a crime to do so, though others here might think that its unfair to, For me its laziness and inrritation with forms, customs, etc. But mainly its currency differences, and extra shipping costs, and paypal resolution discrepencies.

People claim to honor those costs but don't always cover the expenses, and if they fraud you saying the item wasn't delivered you can have your funds held up, or even forfeited through the paypal system.

And also, if you have to refund shipping as mandated by paypal for an item a buyer decides he is going to return (see Paypal user agreement) you are also out bigtime and for no just or apparant reason.

Also, if the buyer sends the item back (as required in this same user agreement), or reports it lost, stolen or undelivered, you can really, really be scammed out of money by third party arbitary fund reversal on the part of Paypal, money can be frozen for months on end, and you may never have any re-course in recovering the item.

Not everyone wants to, nor is required to go international. It still is the individual seller's perrogative. One is NOT required to go through extra work if he or she chooses not to. And no one has the right to tell someone esle they are arrogant just because they do not desire this extra elongated form of business and/or work.


Obviously, smaller countries will choose to ship to Americans, because they would be missing a good 80 percent of their business by not doing so.

As for Americans, since their markerplace is so large to begin with, they tend to do just fine trading within, without the extra hassles from "without". Frankly I hate international shipping and I think its dangerous to one's bottom line should something ever go wrong and an item has to be returned.

If the New World Order Comes about, and we get a one world currency, insurance company. etc. I, myself, would reconsider selling more to global market. But I still wouldn't be crazy enough to accept Paypal, this is the biggest threat to an ebayer's profit anyone could hope for.

Ebay is expanding its operations with Ebay Express, to take credit cards, maybe they will be able to streamline the system through some up coming way without resorting to the Paypal mess/scandal. As of current status, you can get scammed out of you eyeballs. Paypal dipute resolations and internantional frozen fund reversals, are a nightmare!!.

I've shipped a far amount of moderate valued items into Canada as it is part of the same continent, I wouldn't, however, ship overseas, anything of moderate value EVER.

Dewey