eBay Global Shipping Program

[withinsanity_001]

When searching for items on eBay, it is possible to apply an exclusion towards vendors who participate in eBay's disgusting over-inflated Global Shipping Program?

[fab_finds4u]

What's  over inflated?

As a buyer you pay shipping to the shipping center and then International shipping to your country. The import fee is what your country charges. GSP can add a handling fee to the Import Fee. Sellers have always been able to put handling in the shipping cost.

Without GSP many sellers wouldn't  fool with International shipping.

So buy it and cry or pass over those listings.

[pjcdn2005]

No, it isn't possible to exclude those sellers.

If you are viewing on the computer, make sure that you are viewing in 'list' mode rather than gallery. Then when you are on a search page, if you see 'customs services and international tracking provided ' that will be a GSP listing.

[mkv1985]

I once purchased 8 old magazines weighted about 2 pounds from UK to USA (NY area), GSP charged about 90GBP, took 14 days to arrive. After that I I asked seller to ship similar stuff directly from post office, 40GBP postage and 4 days arrival, lol

GSP postage maybe reasonable between some countries, but I don't know why it is unreasonably expensive between UK/US, I purchased some books from UK recently, sometimes saw book priced 20GBP, while GSP postage 40-50GBP,  I don't think USA custom add import duty for a 20GBP book from UK.