I need to vent!

[prjkt]

I don't know what it is about Americans and postage costs... Maybe they're so used to being everything domestically?

[Skullcruncher]

Yeah I have encountered the same, keep in mind you could very well be dealing with someone who has never been out their state, so explaining the costs of something being posted from the other side of the world might be a difficult concept to comprehend.

One gripe I have is about a very well known G1 collector who keeps asking me to sell a book I have on ebay to him very cheaply. He just doesn't get that he needs to pay the price I want.

[TAAUBlaster]

Yeah I have encountered the same, keep in mind you could very well be dealing with someone who has never been out their state, so explaining the costs of something being posted from the other side of the world might be a difficult concept to comprehend.

I mean everyone who buys from outside the US has to pay their high postage costs for international delivery. Don't know why Americans think it should suddenly be cheaper the other way around

One gripe I have is about a very well known G1 collector who keeps asking me to sell a book I have on ebay to him very cheaply. He just doesn't get that he needs to pay the price I want.

Its the same thing with the anime art I'm trying to sell. Everyone wants me to give it to them for free basically. I know the market isn't great, but there is a limit to how low of an offer I would accept.

[GoktimusPrime]

To be fair, postage between North America and Australia is obscenely expensive. Which is why I'm more than happy to use Japanese or Australian based online stores like HLJ, PC etc. Getting stuff from the US was good when the AUD was above parity with the USD... and back when you could buy toys off Amazon USA. I just don't bother with US based stores anymore.

[UltraMarginal]

it used to be so cheap to ship stuff from the states as well. I recall several times now I've shipped Baseball cleats from the states for about $20, it was untracked but first class international was reliable and always under 2 weeks.

It's harder to find people willing to ship using that method or something similar now. I think the price of it has also gone up significantly.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

That totally pushed me off of buying things from American Ebay. The last time I bought a game o something from America, the postage was almost as much as the damn game itself. After looking though a bunch of other US listings, all their postage just seemed unreasonable.

I stopped after that.

Actually I haven't used ebay for a long time now!

[griffin]

Even amazon shipping has gone up significantly in the last year or two.... as it used to be cheaper to post items from them than it was to send it across Australia. Now its not.

[kup]

I don't know what it is about Americans and postage costs... Maybe they're so used to being everything domestically?

They rarely if ever buy anything from overseas so international postage costs are shocking to them. We are used to pay $30 plus for items shipped to us and often total price may even be less than retail here (if available). However they pay a fraction of what we do at retail and if something needs to be shipped, it is often local so the shipping cost is tiny. Buying from overseas is basically the reverse and a huge shock due to the perceived large cost for the item and massive shipping costs compared to what they pay locally.

When I watch those video game/toy pickers on youtube buying high valued games/toys for like $15-$50 and then I check local market prices...Those guys don't know how good they have it.