08-24-2024 08:39 AM
Hi, I have my items, mostly books, on free shipping. If I choose to ship internationaly will that shipping be free as well. I can ship free within USA but not internationaly thanks. Mike
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08-25-2024 12:58 PM
The UK has recently instituted some very restrictive selling rules, which you may find very oppressive and time-consuming -- see my message #7 above.
You state "Iknow there is no profit in free international, I do want to be able to sell to UK and canada but I won't do if free."
As I stated in message #12 above, your minimum out of pocket costs will be $16.35 plus eBay's Final Value Fees (which are 14.95 % on books), plus your costs for shipping materials & labor. So your "profit" on several of your items would probably be less than $5.00 -- plus you put yourself (not eBay!) at risk for any NAD or INR cases. Probably not worth the trouble.
Finally, if you are on the "exclude shipping locations page," you're not on the right page. Please go back & re-read the instructions which I provided to you in message #9 above.
Here is a listing of current UK restrictions --
Prohibitions (130)
Aerosols.
Ammunition, except lead pellets.
Animals, live (including reptiles).
Arms and parts of arms, or any component classified as munitions of war; imitations and antiques; paint-ball or toy guns; taser guns; air rifles, air pistols, components of firearms, and all other items similar to or resembling the foregoing.
Articles, goods infringing British trademarks or copyright laws.
Asbestos items of any kind.
Bladed articles (as defined by the Criminal Justice Act 1988) and bladed products (as defined by the Offensive Weapons Act 2019). Such items include, but are not limited to, knife blades, kitchen knives (regardless of size or design), bread knives, knives that can be used for hobbies and trades (regardless of whether they are marketed as knives, such as utility knives and snap-off cutters, also called box cutters), gardening and farming tools that have a blade, trade tools that could commonly be described as knives, butcher’s knives (including meat cleavers), cutlery knives, scissors with sharp edges, sporting equipment with blades, replica and antique knives (including those used for re-enactment purposes), handmade and bespoke knives, open razors (where the blade is exposed), axes, swords, survival knives, machetes, switchblade knives (also known as flick knives), and gravity knives.
Christmas crackers (holiday popper).
Clinical and medical waste (e.g., contaminated dressings, bandages, and needles).
Coins; platinum, gold, or silver (manufactured or not); precious stones; jewels; and other valuable articles.
Counterfeit currency, bank notes, and postage stamps.
Dies and equipment for making imitations, etc., of any current postage stamp for denoting any rate of postage.
Fish, live.
Frozen food.
Frozen water (including bags of ice).
Goods made in foreign prisons, except those imported for a noncommercial purpose or of a kind not manufactured in the United Kingdom.
Human remains (including ashes) and dead animals (including preserved animal parts and skins).
Indecent and obscene prints, paintings, books, cards, lithographs, and other engravings, films, video tapes, or any other indecent or obscene articles.
Lead acid batteries (e.g., car batteries) and sealed lead acid batteries.
Lottery tickets and related advertisements for illegal lotteries.
Medicines classified as flammable or toxic.
Radioactive materials and samples that are classified as radioactive using Table 2-12 of the latest edition of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Technical Instructions — e.g., fissile material (uranium 235, etc.), radioactive waste material, thorium, or uranium ores and luminous dials from aircraft.
Soil.
Soiled clothes and rags.
Stun gun, electric.
Switchblade knives (also known as flick knives) and gravity knives.
Waste, dirt, filth, or refuse, including household waste or rubbish."
So you would not be able to ship THE STORY OF O to the UK (as the UK considers that to be an "indecent book'), as well as those three books by E. L. James, which the UK also considers to be "indecent."
And that book about fighting with knives will probably be confiscated by British customs -- so I don't advise even listing it for sale outside the United States.
You are probably better off restricting your "free shipping" sales to the United States only -- even "free shipping" to Canada appears to be unprofitable for you.
08-26-2024 11:38 PM - edited 08-26-2024 11:54 PM
@1786davycrockett wrote:
The OP's latest comment stated "I want to sell internationaly to select counties" ( see #8, above
Right. They DO say they want to sell internationally. They do NOT say they want to have free shipping for international buyers. In post 1 they mention that they ship free within the US. and are asking if that means they need to shop for free to other countries. If you read post 1 again and add a ? at the end of the second sentence it makes more sense. The last sentence also specifies that they cannot ship free except to buyers in the US.
The answer to that question is no, they can ship free in the US and charge for shipping to other countries if shipping there directly. Or, they can ship through the EIS in which case they don’t have to worry about charging as the EIS will charge for the international shipping,
08-27-2024 06:08 PM
thanks for the information. I went over the instruction you sent me to opt out of EIS. When I clicked on shipping prefrences the window that came up is titled shipping prefrences. I can't find ebat international shipping what shall i do know? thanks
08-27-2024 06:16 PM - edited 08-27-2024 06:25 PM
The EIS option should be at the very top of the Shipping Preferences page.
08-27-2024 06:35 PM
the window I have is exactly the same as you just sent but the ebay international section is missing, it ain't there. Mine is shipping preferances and bellow that shipping settings
08-27-2024 06:37 PM - edited 08-27-2024 06:41 PM
To cut to the chase, if you want to sell internationally, you should use eBay International Shipping (eIS). With eIS, the buyer pays to ship it from the USA to their country. If you offer free shipping in the USA, with a foreign buyer you will have pay to send it to the eIS hub in the USA, but you won't pay for the international shipping from the USA (the costly part).
International shipping, even to Canada, can cost a fortune. If you do it for free, it will be very costly, and with some of your books you have listed you will LOSE money. eIS also relieves you of all kinds of international shipping liability (customs seizes it, it is stolen en route in the destination country, Germany's ridiculous "packaging registration" law, and other nonsense.)
Free international shipping is truly an advanced seller option, and even then I would never advise someone to do it. Use eIS, let the buyer pay the costly foreign shipping, and let eBay worry about the liabilities.
08-27-2024 06:59 PM
thats why I want to opt out of EIS but I can't find the place to do it it not there. I know free international is not cost effective so I wont do it. I am trying to get around it. I can't even figure out how to check the shipping setting I have
08-28-2024 05:59 AM
With EIS you do not pay for the International part, ebay charges the buyer for that directly. You only pay to ship to the USA hub, which would be no different than shipping to any of your other USA buyers.
Still you should be able to see the OPT out option for EIS. Suggest you clear your browser cache to force a fresh page and access your Shipping Preferences again.
08-28-2024 06:56 AM
thanks, how do i clear cash, I have windows 10
08-28-2024 09:00 AM
What browser do you have? The browser cache is what you need to clear.
08-28-2024 09:43 AM
I have google chrome
08-28-2024 03:22 PM
If the OP is not seeing "Shipping service" and "eBay International Shipping" at the top of his "Shipping Preferences" page, could this possibly be suggesting that the OP is actually NOT signed up for EIS?
At this point, I'm at a loss to suggest any further options, short of editing each & every listing to eliminate ANY international sales.
08-28-2024 04:39 PM - edited 08-28-2024 04:47 PM
I don't think so, as the EIS option line is there whether you enable it or not.
@wastingtime101 Can you help here?
08-28-2024 04:42 PM - edited 08-28-2024 04:48 PM
I looked at the page with Chrome and it looks exactly the same as I posted, so something odd is going on. Will check into this further.
08-28-2024 04:53 PM
@rfmtm wrote:I don't think so, as the EIS option line is there whether you enable it or not.
@wastingtime101 Can you help here?
It doesn't show up until the seller qualifies. Certain sales volume and performance standards need to be met before that happens.
When a new seller qualifies for eIS they will receive a message from eBay notifying them and they will automatically be opted in (and can opt out if they want).
Until the seller qualifies they will not see eIS on their shipping preferences page @rfmtm .