Best way to handle international shipping for cards

[hammerva]

Hello.  I was wondering how sellers are handling international shipping costs on cards. If you use the "international delivery" or I guess this Global process or just the regular international mail at post office with customs option you pretty much have to pay about $12-$15 shipping internationally to handle the cost. That kills a lot of the potential buyers.  Especially when the card is barely $5 to begin with.  There is a way to shipping using the $1.30 (I think that is the cost now) international stamps but there is no real tracking of anything. But I can make the shipping cost around $4 - $6.

Do you offer both options or one particular one that you prefer? Or just use a different all together.  I was thinking of making the shipping something like $14 and then offer the international stamps option and provide a shipping refund.  But don't know 

[onefootflipper]

I don't do international shipping on cards at all, I have found that international card buyers who you ship to directly with untracked shipments love to file claims to get free cards. 

The serious international card buyers all have an account set up with one of the various services that will receive all their card orders for them and then forward them in bulk. There is nothing special you need to do for these people as they have a US address from the service they use. 

[12345jamesstamps]

I am able to mail 4 cards at $1.40 International. No tracking. Something not worth a lot I can afford a hit here and there. I was doing auctions and got mostly International Buyers on my stamps. And it was repeat buyers. Now that I charge International Buyers for mailing $1.30 I don't really get much International buyers. I mostly have domestic buyers. Some of my International buyers in the past were Chinese with only the Chinese address. Took me a while to copy and paste those addresses on the envelope. Before sanctions a lot of my buyers were Russian with only the address in Russian. That was a pain to put the Russian address on the envelope. Tracking is hard to do when buyers sometimes use only their language as an address. I don't miss International Buyers. Chinese addresses need also to have the telephone number with address. And a lot of International Buyers ask for tracking as to why item hasn't arrive yet. I had a lot of repeat buyers International when I did auctions. Now that I do buy it now they are all done. I don't miss the International Buyers. They were a lot of pain in the butt for me.