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Is anyone with a Us ebay acc able to help out, basically have found a uxga panel, they are soo ard to find but the seller only ships to the US so would need someone to purchase from him and reship to the UK, anyone able to help out. ?

Please let me know the auction ends in 5 hrs..

have you tried contacting the seller? I also bought a panel in US which supposedly shipped to US/Canada only. I just asked if they would be willing to ship to Europe and they agreed immediately.

Yes have contacted the seller but have recieved no reply back off them

YGPM

Some sellers don't want to be bothered. There is often export paperwork (for customs) to be filled out, and it can take an extra 1/2 hour to hour between filling out the paperwork and handling the unfamiliar shipping forms--especially if USMail is not used. (International Priority Mail or Global Post, whatever they are calling it, can very much simplify this.)

Also, post-to-post often bypasses customs broker houses and fees--which shippers don't realize--making the calculation of charges and paperwork less again as well.

But in any case, an international shipment of 'technology" goods will involve more work, expect them to ask for some handling fee to make up the time, unless you can prepare all the paperwork and email/fax it from your end to make the job easy.

http://www.usps.com is our post office web site, most of the tools you could need are online there--including the option for free pickup at the shipper, to make their life easy.

And of course, most will want the goods paid for and the payment cleared (and not revokable through PayPal) before shipping.

Just a bit more work, and caution, so it needs more incentives.

@hellosailor

Don't know where you get your info from.
I sell on eBay regularly, and have international shipments all the time.
I also ship laptops worldwide.

If an item sells on eBay and is paid for with PayPal, all you need to do (on eBay) is click on Print Shipping Label, type in a description of no more than 20 letters (!), and hit the Print button.
It will automatically print the Customs Declaration in 4-fold for you.
Date and sign it, and off you go.
Where's the extra work?

RealBlack-
I'm glad to hear that PayPal has made international shipments as simple as domestic ones. Apparently my information is outdated--but it will be the same information that any old shipper "knows" because that it how it was, for many years.

Can PayPal ship only by USPS and UPS? Because I've had foreign shippers specify Airborne, DHL (no more), and Fedex at times, because in THEIR country, that shipper gave them significantly better performance.

It has been two year or so since I last shipped overseas, at that time I don't think the fancy PayPal links existed, at least not for the options that the recipient (in France) needed.

And some shippers frankly don't have any faith in PayPal. Just this week I sent several shipments via the PayPal link, and watched it generate a preview invoice WITHOUT INCLUDING INSURANCE which I had selected and paid for. I know this for a fact, I grabbed the screen image.

Then when I generated the invoice FROM THAT PREVIEW, the mysteriously missing insurance charge WAS THERE. As it should have been. I grabbed another screenshot, sent both to PayPal and haven't heard a word back from them.

The programming mistakes at eBay are notorious, the service at PayPal does not satisfy all the customers. Both work well for many people, but I know several folks who have been burned by one or the other--and won't use their process because of it.