We Canadians detest buying from sellers who use GSP, so I feel qualified to explain why you should feel comfortable about using it.
First, GSP is a Seller Protection program and was set up to meet the concerns (fears, paranoia) of US,a nd later UK, sellers about shipping to those nefarious foreigners.
So the seller only ships to Erlanger KY using a domestic service.
The seller does not have to deal with complicated customs forms with difficult questions like "what is in this package?" and "what price was it sold for?". All of that is on the shipping label that eBay prepares for you, along with some information supplied by the buyer like his own nation's import number.
Once at the Erlanger plant, the seller's responsibility for shipping ends. If the package is later damaged in transit, is delayed, or is stolen by porch pirates, GSP takes responsibility.
One other way the seller is protected is that the buyer pays import fees to cover his nation's duty and sales taxes on the purchase in advance at purchase . The transaction does not go through until these import fees are paid. The seller never even sees them.
The only problems the seller might need to fix are:
- The shipment is damaged before it arrives in Kentucky. It will be returned to the seller and not forwarded.
- The buyer makes a claim of Not As Described. These claims are rare but they can happen. The seller can also demand the return of the item before he has to refund. That usually ends the claim if the buyer is scamming, but not if there really are grounds. (Describe and package carefully. NAD claims are just as likely from US buyers as from foreigners.)
The Canadian hatred of the program has mostly disappeared with the newest NAFTA which raised our duty free allowance to $150 from the previous $20Cdn (~$14USD).
