stuck in customs

[milkit1]

well it looks like they are refunding the money based on it showing on my tracking that it is in customs and the buyer asked me earlier if I would declare alow amount (which I didnt). However they said that even though it shows in customs they would normally side with the buyer andthe seller would be S.O.L.
Ive since signedup for ebaysinternational shipping program which is GREAT and I highly recommend everyone do it. It doesnt cover every country. The ones it does though make forcheap and sufficient shipping.

[steve B]

Ahhhhh Argentina.

I sold some films to a guy from there a few years ago.
Apparently his local PO includes the customs office. AND the guy there usually wants a bribe to release packages unless his place to store them is full. Supposedly the guy asks him when he walks in "How good of a day will it be for me George?"
He pays some small amount and gets his stuff right away. Another regular refuses and gets his packages when the customs/po guy feels like it, sometimes as long as 6 months. He'd actually seen the po guy tell the other guy something hadn't arrived when it was sitting on the counter.

A friend of mine also sold him stuff and sold enough to have an arrangement where the guy would have purchases shipped to him and then he'd ship a big boxful of stuff. Overall it saved the buyer a bunch of postage. The guy I know ended it when it got to be a nuisance.

Steve B

[chaddurbin]

i've had 2 packages to canada recently never made it out of customs...canada post is the worst! i've shipped to italy, malaysia, thailand, indonesia w/o much trouble.

[Duluth Eskimo]

I had a envelope sent from Canada make it to NY customs then get lost indefinitely. It is going on over 1 year. I would much rather have the items than my $200. The guy sent it registered mail and apparently that is what killed it. Who knows.

[D. Bergin]

Brazil can be pretty rough. I had a guy waiting for customs to release a package for six weeks and then he filed a claim with Ebay. I refunded his payment and blocked him (and the rest of Brazil) from bidding.

He contacted me two days after I refunded him, asking why he was blocked. I told him, and miraculously the package turned up a day later............supposedly. He paid for it and I unblocked him.