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| Being from Canada, I can say that I have a hard time selling Lego to people in the US. My first sale, a Lego Mindstorms RIS went across the boarder (during Christmas). I put 'gift' on the pkg and it was insured. The person receiving the package did (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| Ok, I'm not sure if this is a rant, or a peeve, or a legitimate gripe. ;-) Of the last 5 packages I've received from the US, all of them were stopped at customs, one of them was opened, and I was charged a handling fee, and GST on all of them, and (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) I can't believe it - I just tried to find out about these. The post office in the UK said it had stopped doing them and to try the banks. My bank - well to be honest, I'm not sure they knew IMOs were. They said I could do a direct telegraphic (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) I think you may contact Ian Bishop at ian@goodlife.demon.com.uk He searched several pssibilities to send my 6560, which having also a weight of 2.5 kg approx. (...) Till this monday, I had no problems with customs, all my packages came to me (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) Someone's having a joke here... :) (...) OK - cheers, Chris - I've found the calculator. Unfortunately, it seems I'm stuck with Parcel Force as the calculator told me the maximum airmail weight for small parcels is 2kg - and the 8480 space (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:23:24 GMT, Simon Robinson uttered the following profundities... (...) It is actually cheaper to use standard airmail than Parcel Force. What I meant to say was, use "Small Parcel." I was in a hurry posting this message (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| Hi Simon, posted to market.buy-sell-trade too. There are a number of methods that I know of, depending on how much trading you plan to do: Send US currency: For small one off trades, this is not bad. A bit high risk but does usually work. You should (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| I always use "cash in the envelope" method, and worked in all cases, without any failures (might be by chance), in over 40-50 transactions (including Austria, Belgium, Canada Germany, Netherlands, Slovakia, US, and UK). The amounts are between 5-100 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| Anyone any experiences with what the best way to pay someone in another country is? I'm in the UK and just about to sell a set to someone in the US, and because it's the first time either of us have traded abroad, neither of us know exactly how she (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) I don't get that. Who do you normally use for shipping? I just enquired with ParcelForce (in the UK) about shipping to the States. What I was told was to take the item to the post office and ask for the International Standard Service (about (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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