[LargeFormat] Buying and selling on ebay

[Hornford, Dave]

I'm in Canada and have found most who list USA only, will, when asked , =
agree to ship out of the US.
I've found their two points of concern are getting paid & hassles =
shipping.
When you use PayPal or BidPay they get their funds quickly and when you =
explain customs are the importers problem, not the exporters, their =
concern goes away.

I usually use USPS Express Post because sometimes they & Canada Post =
skip the customs fee, and unlike UPS I never get saddled with extra fees =
to cross the border.

I have noticed that non-US auctions tend to have a lower price than US =
auctions, especially non-US & non-$US auctions.

Dave Hornford
"Where do you store the time you save?"
   --- Anon



-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Aigner [mailto:aigner.ez@terra.com.br]=20
Sent: July 23, 2002 7:10 PM
To: largeformat@f32.net
Subject: [LargeFormat] Buying and selling on ebay


>          So I can imagine, if I have that much trouble, and I live=20
> only an hour's drive from the US boarder, what is it like for LF=20
> shooters in Europe, Asia, South America, etc, etc, who cannot find=20
> what they need at all locally, see exactly what they want on ebay, but =

> are stymied?


Well, I live in Brazil...

Thouht I have already bought from Ebay ( lens shade for hassie 40mm =
distagon, etc) without any problem I see a growing number of sellers =
offering their itens only for USA. My home town in extreme south Brazil =
is far enough from a, let's say, 8x10 film box and even 4x5 b+w film =
box... I am lucky: a pilot friend of mine can get at BH my TriX 4x5 and =
XTol, but that's not enough. S=E3o Paulo, the biggest market, is 1.200 =
km far from my studio and even there I am not sure about finding LF =
gear. Ebay is sometimes the last way for buying any photographic gear on =
this distant land. And I don't want to tell ya that one dollar is about =
3 reais (our money)...

AIGNER



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