How do I opt out of Ebay global shipping program as a buyer

[kareelga]

Every item I order gets confiscated and the last were earpods, which they considered to be a restricted item (maybe some people are using them for kinky purposes, that's why it's restricted) 

It's too frustrating and extremely unreliable. Simply offering a buyer a refund after having him stuck for 10 days is like spitting in his face. 

[bonjourami]

"How do I opt out of Ebay global shipping program as a buyer"

Dont buy from sellers that are in the program.

[powell-memorabilia]

@kareelga 

I ship at least 15 GSP items per week.  I’ve had only one confiscated - an LP to Japan.  If EVERYTHING that you buy is being confiscated, stop using the program.

[june_elizabeth1971]

You can go back and edit all your listings and put exlusions to places you won't ship to.  I have over 200 listings and it took awhile but got it done.  There's a way you can do it to all your listings at once in the seller hub but found out that doesn't work so great.  Some of my listings I tried to do that way still showed up with the GSP in the ad.  All of my GSP's went without a hitch, but found out eBay final fees are a little higher and on some small items, I was loosing almost all my profit on their fees.  Starting to consider someplace else to sell since eBay just nickle and dimes you to death.  They use to take just a flat fee over a certain amount of the total sale which worked great for me since some of my items are several thousand dollars.  Now, it's totally by percentage and that really hurts.  Ebay is all about the buyers but without us sellers, they're screwed.  They should be working just as hard for us as they do trying to make buyers happy.

[releasethekraken_1]

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@june_elizabeth1971 wrote:

You can go back and edit all your listings and put exlusions to places you won't ship to.  I have over 200 listings and it took awhile but got it done.  There's a way you can do it to all your listings at once in the seller hub but found out that doesn't work so great.  Some of my listings I tried to do that way still showed up with the GSP in the ad.  All of my GSP's went without a hitch, but found out eBay final fees are a little higher and on some small items, I was loosing almost all my profit on their fees.  Starting to consider someplace else to sell since eBay just nickle and dimes you to death.  They use to take just a flat fee over a certain amount of the total sale which worked great for me since some of my items are several thousand dollars.  Now, it's totally by percentage and that really hurts.  Ebay is all about the buyers but without us sellers, they're screwed.  They should be working just as hard for us as they do trying to make buyers happy.

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OP doesn’t have listings; they’re the BUYER.

[releasethekraken_1]

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@powell-memorabilia wrote:

@kareelga 

I ship at least 15 GSP items per week.  I’ve had only one confiscated - an LP to Japan.  If EVERYTHING that you buy is being confiscated, stop using the program.

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OP is the BUYER; the choice of using the program for a listing is made by the SELLER. OP is asking how to identify and avoid buying from those listings.

[downunder-61]

OP - if your items are being restricted by the GSP it is because they are following the import guidelines of your own country.

Customs regulations obviously don't allow earbuds into your country, so shipping any other way is not automatically going to fix that.  Once they enter your country they can be flagged and seized by internal custom services.

Some may slip through, but it is by no means a given just because you side step GSP.

Buy locally and fix the problem

[pjcdn2005 · Accepted solution]

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@downunder-61 wrote:

OP - if your items are being restricted by the GSP it is because they are following the import guidelines of your own country.

Customs regulations obviously don't allow earbuds into your country, so shipping any other way is not automatically going to fix that.  Once they enter your country they can be flagged and seized by internal custom services.

Some may slip through, but it is by no means a given just because you side step GSP.

Buy locally and fix the problem

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That isn’t always the case.  The gsp  and eBay international standard often refuses to forward items that are regularly sent by mail to another country and items that are not on another country’s prohibited items list.  They seem to take a ‘restrict this just in case’  attitude.  For example if a specific hardwood used to make guitars is restricted, they have been known to refuse to send a guitar just in case it is made with that wood.  They recently refused to send steak knives to Canada. As a Canadian, I know that they are not a prohibited item or considered as a weapon.

[kareelga]

Not related to my country guidelines. I shifted the order to Amazon and received it. I just don't get why would they restrict an item that could have shipped with no issues. I can use a proxy and bypass the whole global program. But is there a way to filter it out of my searches? 

[powell-memorabilia]

@releasethekraken_1 

Understood.  The buyer knows when it is GSP.  It might not be easy to weed out those items and sellers, but a buyer knows when using this program.  

I used to receive inquiries from buyers on shipping outside of the program - so buyers definitely know.

[pjcdn2005]

@kareelga 

If you are using a PC to search listings, make sure that your view is set to 'list' rather than gallery. When scrolling through the listings, if the listing is using the GSP, you will see 'Customs services and international tracking provided' in the search box so you can avoid looking at those listings. 

Or, once you are in the listing, next to the shipping price, GSP listings show 'International Priority Shipping to xx (your country) via the global shipping program'.

The ebay international standard delivery program has also been refusing to ship certain items so you might want to avoid them as well.  I don't think that you can tell if a seller is using that program until you click on the listing and check to see what shipping service they are using. 

[kareelga]

I found the solution is to give a local proxy address through ship and shop. This why you bypass the program completely, and allows Aramex to take over. 

[stuartvw]

So I'm assuming you can't opt out of the GSP as a buyer, if it is GSP in the listing, although a seller in the UK just wrote that eBay customer service told him this is an option for the buyer on the payment page. Can anyone confirm or refute this? I don't want to risk him being wrong.

[myangelandmyprincess]

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@stuartvw wrote:

So I'm assuming you can't opt out of the GSP as a buyer, if it is GSP in the listing, although a seller in the UK just wrote that eBay customer service told him this is an option for the buyer on the payment page. Can anyone confirm or refute this? I don't want to risk him being wrong.

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It's not an option for the buyer on the payment page.  If the seller has selected global shipping as the choice for shipping international a buyer would have to pay and accept that service or purchase from another seller