Blood for the Baron!

Natwest are pretty good.

Electron is the bottom end of the debit cards and as such doesn't get many good perks or benefits. If you have a good current account then I'd expect you to get at least a VISA debit card, deffo go back to your bank and check out what account you are on.

Alot of US sellers won't ship outside the US international first class, which is the cheap option, as they have no protection if goods don't turn up, are damaged etc. Then they will quote priority express mail which is expensive, I think they do it sometimes to put off international bidders, the US market is so big they probably don't need it.

I'm not sure what are equivalent is, international signed for is roughly an additional £3.60 plus extra for insurance required for over £30 or something. If I'm sending abroad if I have to I'll pay the difference myself for items worth more than £20. It's just not worth getting stung. I have yet to send international signed for and have it not arrive.

Sometimes if a seller is trusting you can persuade him to ship first class, I just say if it doesn't turn up, you have my guarantee that I will not lodge a claim. Have to make sure you think the seller is on the level mind.

I've never checked that I have been charged for different currency rates most $ items on e-bay now have the £ conversions underneath it that I have bought or bid on.

One Aussie bloke I dealt with dropped the sum of $2 in with and order of guitar parts because he had over quoted freight. Personally if I know the price and bid, I'm happy to pay it.

Golden Puma wrote:Alot of US sellers won't ship outside the US international first class, which is the cheap option, as they have no protection if goods don't turn up, are damaged etc. Then they will quote priority express mail which is expensive, I think they do it sometimes to put off international bidders, the US market is so big they probably don't need it.

I'm not sure what are equivalent is, international signed for is roughly an additional £3.60 plus extra for insurance required for over £30 or something. If I'm sending abroad if I have to I'll pay the difference myself for items worth more than £20. It's just not worth getting stung. I have yet to send international signed for and have it not arrive.

Sometimes if a seller is trusting you can persuade him to ship first class, I just say if it doesn't turn up, you have my guarantee that I will not lodge a claim. Have to make sure you think the seller is on the level mind.

i agree with GP now having looked at it properly, i've had a few issues with some US bids but once you find yourself a reasonible seller and get the first deal done and out the way you can start to negotiate, i have a few US sellers helping me out now bless them and doing postage deals, i'd sooner get what i paid for rather than not and it doesn't have to cost the earth to do it either.

Well I got a new record. To ship 1 figure, $30 please then $5 for each extra one, the figures are only worth $10 a piece. I'm hardly likely to try to swindle a seller for $10.

I think it's alot like some of the fixed prices on ebay, some people just like to chance their arm and see if anyone will cough up to thier demands.

on the subject of fixed prices, hope I don't offend anyone, but I couln't believe the current listing for an incomplete Rolling Thunder at £70. 'You can not be serious!'