Re: No more Cobubba? Message #20 Posted by Francis Pierot on 4 Nov 2011, 11:59 a.m., in response to message #17 by Katie Wasserman
I live in France and have buyed a lot of items from US sellers on *bay, never had any problem since one year.
Delays were about 10 or 15 days for boxed items and sometimes, customs asks for 19,6% VAT which I must admit, can make the item a little expensive in the end. But the euro/dollar exchange rate makes things smoothier, seen from the european side. Also, for manuals, lonely calculators with no boxes or accessories, items less than about $100, I frequently had no custom taxes at all, and even had short delays.
Still, I understand your point 3: Quote: In general, the US Post Office people are not at all helpful in shipping items overseas
You can probably pull the "US" mention out of this sentence.
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