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I don't check this newsgroup very often. Please send any responses to my email address as well as the newsgroup. I've just finished up my first auction, and I'm having trouble getting adequate shipping rates for my non-US bidders. It seems that the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: Not happy with delivery US to UK
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I've had similar trouble with things I've bought from eBay. The post office employees will bend and stuff a priority folder into my mailbox rather than hold it or use one of the parcel lockers available. (I got a nice wrinkle down the back of an old (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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Jasper, I solemnly promise never to send you anything. JSA;-) (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Errmm... You expect us to believe you? and if we do, I'd ask you never to send something to me - 17.5% VAT adds up on sets like the RIS. Jasper (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Isn't Parcel Post just the regular US mail which would then be delivered by your local mail service. Easy to tell, are there any stamps on it? (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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I've just received my first order from the States (to the UK) - the Dacta community vehicles from Kaplanco. I'm not happy with how it was delivered. I just discovered the box on Saturday, left out in the rain, by the front door and wedged in amongst (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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James Brown wrote in message ... (...) at (...) on (...) (after (...) 1 (...) was (...) only (...) I'm just guessing, but I think that once they opened the first one and they hit paydirt, your name and address was put on their shit list and you're (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Er, why, uh, the truth, of course ;-) JSA (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Just curious, what do you put on the green tag? I always put gift. Julie (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) [snip] I have sent a dozen or more parcels of LEGO and games to Canada with no nasty Customs stories that I know of. Sounds like you have a legitimate gripe, 'though much good that does you when dealing with the gummint. I have sent to (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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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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