stuck in customs

[oldjudge]

About five years ago I traded for a very scarce N288(Buchner Police and Fire Chiefs) from a friend in the UK. The card made it to US Customs at Kennedy Airport but no further. I never did receive the card and have no idea what happened to it. The UK postal service paid the insurance claim, but I would have much rather had the card. It had lasted 120 years and then Customs ate it.

[bnorth]

Did eBay refund or did they make you refund? I have never had it happen just curious how eBay handled it. After 1 month you can't really blame the buyer. I hope it works out for you.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

About five years ago I traded for a very scarce N288(Buchner Police and Fire Chiefs) from a friend in the UK. The card made it to US Customs at Kennedy Airport but no further. I never did receive the card and have no idea what happened to it. The UK postal service paid the insurance claim, but I would have much rather had the card. It had lasted 120 years and then Customs ate it.

I had exactly the same experience with a set of rare boxing cards from the UK. We tracked it to customs in NYC [UK version of registered mail] and there it disappeared. I too would rather have gotten the cards than had the cash back. My cards were only around 90 years old but they'd made it from Thailand to London to NY before going missing.

I've never sold cards to Argentinean purchasers but I've had widely varied results getting them from Argentinean sellers. Sometimes the package arrives in a week or two, sometimes it takes two months. This arrived in under 10 days from one seller:



This took over a month from a different seller:

[milkit1]

Ouch. Well I'm sticking to just the countries that the ebay international shipping program deals with. Looks to be about 20 or so.