PS: I've contacted ebay directly and they suggested themselve for me to ask to pay out of ebay with paypal, then to let the vendor mark all as paid... so if it's ebay customer service who tells it, I'm not gonna be in trouble no??
The problem is the way ebay has it set up you either have to accept buyers from everywhere or only your country.Fundamentally incorrect. It is possible to select which countries you ship to and it doesn't have to be everywhere or nowhere. In the section where you choose shipping locations, there is an option to choose countries. And then you can select where you want to ship, omitting the others that you don't.
The problem is the way ebay has it set up you either have to accept buyers from everywhere or only your country.Fundamentally incorrect. It is possible to select which countries you ship to and it doesn't have to be everywhere or nowhere. In the section where you choose shipping locations, there is an option to choose countries. And then you can select where you want to ship, omitting the others that you don't.
I don't particularly agree with that practice, but saying it's not there is misinformation. It is.
Personally, if I were Spanish or Italian I'd be offended at most of the rest of your comment. I mean, I've had the most problems personally with the USPS, particularly Chicago;s hub, which likes to send my parcels to Canada instead of to the UK (they apparently haven't learned yet that postal codes exist in other countries. Sigh). This has happened more times than I can count and adds about a week to the delivery as the poor folk in Canada have to send it back to the US to be redone. I had one pony that took six months because of the USPS. That's not normal.
And it's easy to sit there and say the GSP is great for such places, but you're talking about a service that overcharges import fees, delays delivery by about a week, which repackages items to damage them and doesn't even require a signature. I am not sure that really sounds better.
Within the EU I don't think Spain and Italy have that many problems, anyway. I don't know what it's like for countries outside (maybe soon we'll find out), but I think it's wrong to assume that the GSP is better. I bought a pony from Spain recently and Royal Mail's tracking was dead to the world, but the Spanish site gave me tracking all the way through, so I knew where it was.
The problem is the way ebay has it set up you either have to accept buyers from everywhere or only your country.Fundamentally incorrect. It is possible to select which countries you ship to and it doesn't have to be everywhere or nowhere. In the section where you choose shipping locations, there is an option to choose countries. And then you can select where you want to ship, omitting the others that you don't.
I don't particularly agree with that practice, but saying it's not there is misinformation. It is.
Personally, if I were Spanish or Italian I'd be offended at most of the rest of your comment. I mean, I've had the most problems personally with the USPS, particularly Chicago;s hub, which likes to send my parcels to Canada instead of to the UK (they apparently haven't learned yet that postal codes exist in other countries. Sigh).
But the whole USA to Italy bad postal service thing has a lot of stories behind it. And for a platform like eBay, it's not worth the risk for most sellers. It's not about slow service, it's about packages disappearing.
I've been told by Italians to not ship first class to them due to the risk. So take that into consideration too. :/
From what I remember Paypal is owned by ebay.
From what I remember Paypal is owned by ebay.
Not anymore. And eBay is going with a different platform (Ayden) for their main payment processor by 2020.