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Hello!
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TAny experience on overcoming this?
I have succeeded quite a few times by simply contacting the sellers by mail and explaining to them, that it is really no more difficult to ship their items outside the US than internally. All they have to do is to fill in the little customs declaration when they take the parcel to the post office (or FedEx, UPS, DHL, whatever service they want to use).
Sometimes it also helps to find out the exact postage fee for them. I you tell the seller "postage to my country will be 29 Dollars using USPS and I'm happy to pay that" then he has really no valid reason not to send you his merchandise!
Regards,
Max
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They usually don't want to deal with the post office paperwork or the shipping hassles (like when the buyer, and seller, pay for fast delivery to Japan and some idiot in Oakland puts it on the back of a donkey heading east). Some people have been burned by the post office employees in the receiving country stealing the item. For instance; any package entering Ecuador will be opened and anything with an equal or higher value than used toilet paper will be removed. Some sellers get bent out of shape when the buyer asks to have the item's value on the customs papers understated. Me, i'll help short ANY government.
You can ask someone you know here to receive it for you then re-ship it or you can pick it up when you see them. Joerg Woerner and Juan Demien (both members here) have done this for me with German & Argentine sellers that didn't want to ship to one of those foreigners living in the States.
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